Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 12, Number 16 September 1, 2012 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: Solver Comparison on 2 CFD Problems Dynamics Days South America 2012 SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems Doctoral Position in Mathematical Biology PhD and Postdoc Position, Modeling and Simulation of Aerosols PhD Position on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations Positions in Applied and Computational Mathematics Contents, The Journal of Geometric Mechanics 4:2 Contents, Journal of Modern Dynamics 6:2 Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A 32:11 Contents, Advances in Mathematics of Communications 6:3 Contents, Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization 8:3 Contents, Mathematical Control and Related Fields 2:3 Contents, Nonlinearity 25:9 Submissions to nls-net must be addressed to: Comments and suggestions are also welcome. General information about nls-net can be found at: http://www.maia.ub.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nls-net/ This is a service created and maintained in collaboration with the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) http://www.aimsciences.org/ ------ Subject: Solver Comparison on 2 CFD Problems From: Fred Wubs Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 06:06:28 -0400 During the conference BIFURCATIONS AND INSTABILITIES IN FLUID DYNAMICS, 8 - 11 July 2013, Haifa, Israel (see http://bifd2013.technion.ac.il/), a minisymposium "Computational methods for bifurcation and stability analysis" will be organized in which CFD codes are to be compared on two problems. The first is the 3D Lid Driven Cavity problem and the second consists of the Boussinesq equations on a sector North Atlantic model. A problem description and requirements can be found on the website: http://www.math.rug.nl/~wubs/Research/BIFD The minisymposium will be organized by Prof.dr. Henk A. Dijkstra (Utrecht University) and dr. Fred W. Wubs (University of Groningen) ------ Subject: Dynamics Days South America 2012 From: golivart Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:07:43 -0500 DYNAMICS DAYS SOUTH AMERICA 2012 Cartagena, November 20-23, 2012 Colombia Dynamics Days, founded in 1980, is one of the longest standing and most respected international series of meetings devoted to the field of dynamics and nonlinearity. Traditionally it has been bringing together researchers from a wide range of backgrounds including physics, biology, engineering, chemistry and mathematics for interdisciplinary research in nonlinear science. Since its beginning, a key goal of Dynamics Days has been to promote the participation and cross-discipline interaction of young scientists together with more established experts from a wide variety of fields. Dynamics Days South America 2012 is the second international conference of the Dynamics Days series in South America, after the successful first edition in Sao Jose dos Campos in 2010. This 2nd event will be hosted in Cartagena de Indias, one of the oldest cities in the Caribbean (Colombia). The meeting is deliberately structured to encourage active participation from young scientists through both invited and contributed oral presentations and poster sessions. The conference will be structured in plenary invited talks, minisymposium, contributed talks and poster sessions. It will cover in parallel, on the one hand, a broad range of dynamical systems areas and, on the other hand, it will be focussed on an important hot topic. The conference will start on Tuesday, November 20 and it will end on Friday, November 23 around lunchtime. Please visit http://ddays2012southamerica.com ------ Subject: SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems From: Kirsten Wilden Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 10:33:33 -0400 SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS13) Organizing Committee Co-chairs: Charles Doering, University of Michigan, USA; George Haller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Location: Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort, Snowbird, Utah, USA Dates: May 19 - 23, 2013 Invited Speakers: Lora Billings, Montclair State University, USA Adrian Constantin, King's College London, United Kingdom Jeff Hasty, University of California, San Diego, USA Paul Johnson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Katharina Krischer, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany Mark Levi, Pennsylvania State University, USA Alexander Lipton, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Imperial College London, United Kingdom Jean-Luc Thiffeault, University of Wisconsin, USA Eric Vanden-Eijnden, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, USA The Call for Presentations for this conference is available at: http://www.siam.org/meetings/ds13/ Twitter hashtag: #SIAMDS13 October 22, 2012: Minisymposium proposals November 19, 2012: Abstract submissions due November 5, 2012: SIAM Student Travel Award and Post-doc/Early Career Travel Award Applications For additional information, contact the SIAM Conference Department (meetings@siam.org). ------ Subject: Doctoral Position in Mathematical Biology From: Christina Surulescu Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2012 10:24:34 +0200 A doctoral position in mathematical biology is available in the research group Mathematics with Applications to Biology and Medicine at the University of Kaiserslautern (Germany). The group is affiliated to the Felix-Klein Centre for Mathematics, which has been newly established in the framework of the Mathematics initiative of Rhineland-Palatinate, the Technical University of Kaiserslautern and the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics (ITWM). Applications are invited for the above mentioned parttime job (75% of the designated salary bracket TVL 13). The position has a limited tenure for 2 years, with a possible extension and involves research and teaching duties according to the German statutory rules. The successfull applicant should have a university degree (diploma or masters with outstanding results) in mathematics. Further requirements are: * a strong background in stochastic processes, dynamical systems, partial differential equations, and numerical methods for the latter * good programming skills in Matlab and/or C * active interest in interdisciplinary research and collaboration with our partners from biology and medicine. The University of Kaiserslautern wishes to increase the proportion of female academic staff and therefore especially welcomes applications from women. Applicants with children are welcome. Severely challenged persons will be given preference in case of equal qualifications. Applications with the usual documents (CV, copies of degree certificates, references, publication list, letter of motivation) should be sent by September 15th 2012 to Prof. Dr. Christina Surulescu Felix-Klein-Zentrum fuer Mathematik TU Kaiserslautern Paul-Ehrlich-Str. 31 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany Or by email to: surulescu@mathematik.uni-kl.de. ------ Subject: PhD and Postdoc Position, Modeling and Simulation of Aerosols From: Bernard Geurts Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 03:45:35 -0400 At the University of Twente a PhD and a PD position are available in the group Multiscale Modeling and Simulation (MMS) of the Department of Applied Mathematics. MMS is member of the Center for Interface Research (CIR), a collaborative research center with scientists from the Universities of Delft, Eindhoven and Twente. In this research project we plan to investigate the generation of aerosol from heated biomass. An accurate computational model will be developed and applied to understand, predict and optimize the multi-phase aerosol dynamics. The simulation tools developed in this project may be applied in the development of an innovative range of products that may have the potential to reduce the risk of smoking related diseases. Operating under more controlled conditions and at lower temperatures may reduce the formation of harmful and potentially harmful smoke constituents that may be associated with smoking related disease. This ambition gives an extra dimension to this project in which innovative modeling and simulation technologies will be developed to address the complex multi- species fluid dynamics of aerosol. In particular, the project will investigate the underlying mechanisms of the aerosol generation, evolution and transport by integrating first principles from physics, chemistry and biology. These results will be essential to calibration and improvement of engineering models for product development. The PhD & PD positions will be based full-time at the University of Twente in Enschede, the Netherlands, under the direct supervision of Prof. Bernard Geurts (University of Twente & Eindhoven University of Technology) in collaboration with Dr. Arkadiusz Kuczaj (Philip Morris International R&D, Neuchatel, Switzerland). You may apply at www.utwente.nl/vacatures . Deadline September 24, 2012. There you may find further information regarding enumeration and desired profile. Starting date by arrangement in the period: September - December 2012. ------ Subject: PhD Position on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations From: Christian Klingenberg Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 09:41:06 -0400 PhD Position, Wurzburg University, Germany A 3 year PhD position is available from Nov. 2012 on at the Dept. of Mathematics of Wurzburg University in the field of nonlinear partial differential equations. A Diplom or Masters in applied mathematics is required. The topic is either in the area of Prof. Manfred Dobrowolski (finite elements, elliptic PDEs) or Prof. Christian Klingenberg (finite volume methods, hyperbolic PDEs, astrophysical applications). Please also see http://www.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~klingen/jobs.html For inquiries and applications please contact klingen@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de. In the application please include CV, list of publications, names and contact information for 3 references, and a brief statement of research interests. We will accept applications until the position is filled. ------ Subject: Positions in Applied and Computational Mathematics From: Alex barnett Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:23:49 -0400 e are pleased to announce that we are looking to hire this year a Full Professor, and also an Assistant Professor, both in the areas of applied and computational mathematics, here in the Mathematics Department at Dartmouth College. For full details see: http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/activities/recruiting If you have further questions, please contact the recruiting chair Scott Pauls (scott.pauls@dartmouth.edu), or Dan Rockmore (daniel.n.rockmore@dartmouth.edu), or myself (Alex Barnett). ------ Subject: Contents, The Journal of Geometric Mechanics 4:2 From: "Liwei Ning" Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:54:54 -0500 The Journal of Geometric Mechanics (JGM) Volume: 4, Number: 2 June 2012 http://aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=529 Special issue dedicated to Tudor S. Ratiu on the occasion of his 60th birthday 1.Foreword Pages : i - i Juan-Pablo Ortega 2. Symmetries and reduction of multiplicative 2-forms Pages : 111 - 127 Henrique Bursztyn and Alejandro Cabrera 3. Linear weakly Noetherian constants of motion are horizontal gauge momenta Pages : 129 - 136 Francesco Fasso, Andrea Giacobbe and Nicola Sansonetto 4. Variational Integrators for Hamiltonizable Nonholonomic Systems Pages : 137 - 163 Oscar E. Fernandez, Anthony M. Bloch and P. J. Olver 5. Dirac pairs Pages : 165 - 180 Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach 6. A property of conformally Hamiltonian vector fields; Application to the Kepler problem Pages : 181 - 206 Charles-Michel Marle ------ Subject: Contents, Journal of Modern Dynamics 6:2 From: "Liwei Ning" Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:26:53 -0500 Journal of Modern Dynamics (JMD) Volume: 6, Number: 2 April 2012 http://aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListJMDnew.jsp?pubID=534 1. The 2011 Michael Brin Prize in Dynamical Systems Pages : i - ii The Editors 2. On the Brin Prize work of Artur Avila in Teichmuller dynamics and interval-exchange transformations Pages : 139 - 182 Giovanni Forni 3. Forty years of unimodal dynamics: On the occasion of Artur Avila winning the Brin Prize Pages : 183 - 203 Mikhail Lyubich 4. Partial quasimorphisms and quasistates on cotangent bundles, and symplectic homogenization Pages : 205 - 249 Alexandra Monzner, Nicolas Vichery and Frol Zapolsky 5. Time-changes of horocycle flows Pages : 251 - 273 Giovanni Forni and Corinna Ulcigrai 6. Spectral analysis of time changes of horocycle flows Pages : 275 - 285 Rafael Tiedra De Aldecoa ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A 32:11 From: "Liwei Ning" Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:50:03 -0500 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A (DCDS-A) Volume: 32, Number: 11 November 2012 http://aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=523 1. Preface Pages : i - iii Julian Lopez-Gomez 2. Boundary estimates for solutions of weighted semilinear elliptic equations Pages : 3801 - 3817 Claudia Anedda and Giovanni Porru 3. Coercivity of elliptic mixed boundary value problems in annulus of R^N Pages : 3819 - 3839 Santiago Cano-Casanova 4. Dynamics of a reaction-diffusion-advection model for two competing species Pages : 3841 - 3859 Xinfu Chen, King-Yeung Lam and Yuan Lou 5. On domain perturbation for super-linear Neumann problems and a question of Y. Lou, W-M Ni and L. Su Pages : 3861 - 3869 E. N. Dancer 6. Anti-angiogenic therapy based on the binding to receptors Pages : 3871 - 3894 Manuel Delgado, Cristian Morales-Rodrigo and Antonio Suarez 7. On the behavior at collisions of solutions to Schrodinger equations with many-particle and cylindrical potentials Pages : 3895 - 3956 Veronica Felli, Alberto Ferrero and Susanna Terracini 8. Longtime behavior of solutions to chemotaxis-proliferation model with three variables Pages : 3957 - 3974 Doan Duy Hai and Atsushi Yagi 9. Characterization of turing diffusion-driven instability on evolving domains Pages : 3975 - 4000 Georg Hetzer, Anotida Madzvamuse and Wenxian Shen 10. Blow-up phenomena in reaction-diffusion systems Pages : 4001 - 4014 Monica Marras and Stella Vernier Piro 11. Multiplicity of solutions of variational systems involving phi-Laplacians with singular phi and periodic nonlinearities Pages : 4015 - 4026 Jean Mawhin 12. Asymptotic behavior of singular solutions for a semilinear parabolic equation Pages : 4027 - 4043 Shota Sato and Eiji Yanagida 13. Periodic solutions for a class of second order ODEs with a Nagumo cubic type nonlinearity Pages : 4045 - 4067 Chiara Zanini and Fabio Zanolin ------ Subject: Contents, Advances in Mathematics of Communications 6:3 From: "Liwei Ning" Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:44:56 -0500 Advances in Mathematics of Communications (AMC) Volume: 6, Number: 3 August 2012 http://aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=531 1. List decoding of matrix-product codes from nested codes: An application to quasi-cyclic codes Pages : 259 - 272 Fernando Hernando, Tom Hoholdt and Diego Ruano 2. Wet paper codes and the dual distance in steganography Pages : 273 - 285 Carlos Munuera and Morgan Barbier 3. Characterization and constructions of self-dual codes over Z_2 x Z_4 Pages : 287 - 303 Joaquim Borges, Steven T. Dougherty and Cristina Fernandez-Cordoba 4. Secondary constructions of bent functions and their enforcement Pages : 305 - 314 Claude Carlet, Fengrong Zhang and Yupu Hu 5. Canonical- systematic form for codes in hierarchical poset metrics Pages : 315 - 328 Luciano Viana Felix and Marcelo Firer 6. Structural properties of binary propelinear codes Pages : 329 - 346 Joaquim Borges, Ivan Yu. Mogilnykh, Josep Rifa and Faina I. Solov'eva 7. Cycle structure of permutation functions over finite fields and their applications Pages : 347 - 361 Amin Sakzad, Mohammad-Reza Sadeghi and Daniel Panario 8. Computation of cross-moments using message passing over factor graphs Pages : 363 - 384 Velimir M. Ilic, Miomir S. Stankovic and Branimir T. Todorovic ------ Subject: Contents, Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization 8:3 From: "Liwei Ning" Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:29:39 -0500 Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization (JIMO) Volume: 8, Number: 3 August 2012 http://aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=524 1. An approximation algorithm for the k -level facility location problem with submodular penalties Pages : 521 - 529 Gaidi Li, Zhen Wang and Dachuan Xu 2. Optimal investment with a value-at-risk constraint Pages : 531 - 547 Jingzhen Liu, Lihua Bai and Ka-Fai Cedric Yiu 3. Portfolio optimization and risk measurement based on non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm Pages : 549 - 564 Ping-Chen Lin 4. A Max-Min clustering method for k -means algorithm of data clustering Pages : 565 - 575 Baolan Yuan, Wanjun Zhang and Yubo Yuan 5. Single-period inventory model with discrete stochastic demand based on prospect theory Pages : 577 - 590 Wei Liu, Shiji Song and Cheng Wu 6. A neighboring extremal solution for an optimal switched impulsive control problem Pages : 591 - 609 Canghua Jiang, Kok Lay Teo, Ryan Loxton and Guang-Ren Duan 7. Canonical duality solution for alternating support vector machine Pages : 611 - 621 Yubo Yuan 8. A common set of weight approach using an ideal decision making unit in data envelopment analysis Pages : 623 - 637 Saber Saati, Adel Hatami-Marbini, Per J. Agrell and Madjid Tavana 9. An extended lifetime measure for telecommunications networks: Improvements and implementations Pages : 639 - 649 Zari Dzalilov, Iradj Ouveysi and Tolga Bekta? 10. Worst-case performance of the successive approximation algorithm for four identical knapsacks Pages : 651 - 656 Zhenbo Wang 11. Integrated inventory model with stochastic lead time and controllable variability for milk runs Pages : 657 - 672 Xin Zhou, Liangping Shi and Bingzhi Huang 12. Optimal reinsurance-investment strategies for insurers under mean-CaR criteria Pages : 673 - 690 Yan Zeng and Zhongfei Li 13. Upper Holder estimates of solutions to parametric primal and dual vector quasi-equilibria Pages : 691 - 703 Chunrong Chen and Shengjie Li 14. On an exact penalty function method for semi-infinite programming problems Pages : 705 - 726 Cheng Ma, Xun Li, Ka-Fai Cedric Yiu, Yongjian Yang and Liansheng Zhang 15. Note on "Cost analysis of the M/M/R machine repair problem with second optional repair: Newton-Quasi method" Pages : 727 - 732 Cheng-Dar Liou 16. A sequential convex program method to DC program with joint chance constraints Pages : 733 - 747 Xiantao Xiao, Jian Gu, Liwei Zhang and Shaowu Zhang 17. Lagrange multiplier rules for approximate solutions in vector optimization Pages : 749 - 764 Caiping Liu and Heungwing Lee 18. Identification for systems governed by nonlinear interval differential equations Pages : 765 - 780 Tayel Dabbous ------ Subject: Contents, Mathematical Control and Related Fields 2:3 From: "Liwei Ning" Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:32:13 -0500 Mathematical Control and Related Fields (MCRF) Volume: 2, Number: 3 September 2012 http://aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=532 1. Numerical null controllability of semi-linear 1-D heat equations: Fixed point, least squares and Newton methods Pages : 217 - 246 Enrique Fernandez-Cara and Arnaud Munch 2. Controllability of the cubic Schroedinger equation via a low-dimensional source term Pages : 247 - 270 Andrey Sarychev 3. Time-inconsistent optimal control problems and the equilibrium HJB equation Pages : 271 - 329 Jiongmin Yong ------ Subject: Contents, Nonlinearity 25:9 From: Anna-Ulla Gardiner Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:30:45 +0100 NONLINEARITY Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2012 Individual articles are free for 30 days following their publication on the web. This issue is available at: URL: http://iopscience.iop.org/0951-7715/24/9 Pages: 2401--2802 PAPERS 2401 Difference approximation to Aubry--Mather sets of the forced Burgers equation Takaaki Nishida and Kohei Soga 2423 Weak solutions to a thin film model with capillary effects and insoluble surfactant Joachim Escher, Matthieu Hillairet, Philippe Lauren{\c{c}}ot and Christoph Walker 2443 Expanding maps, shrinking targets and hitting times J L Fern\'andez, M V Meli\'an and D Pestana 2473 An exactly solvable model for nonlinear resonant scattering Stephen P Shipman and Stephanos Venakides 2503 Random billiards with wall temperature and associated Markov chains Scott Cook and Renato Feres 2543 Quantifying uncertainty for predictions with model error in non-Gaussian systems with intermittency Michal Branicki and Andrew J Majda 2579 Sobolev quasi-periodic solutions of multidimensional wave equations with a multiplicative potential Massimiliano Berti and Philippe Bolle 2615 A note on the Darboux theory of integrability of non-autonomous polynomial differential systems David Bl\'azquez-Sanz and Chara Pantazi 2625 Linear stability analysis for travelling waves of second order in time PDE's Milena Stanislavova and Atanas Stefanov 2655 Ill-posedness of degenerate dispersive equations David M Ambrose, Gideon Simpson, J Douglas Wright and Dennis G Yang 2681 A degree theory for coupled cell systems with quotient symmetries Haibo Ruan 2717 Arnold diffusion far from strong resonances in multidimensional $a priori$ unstable Hamiltonian systems D Treschev 2759 A Lyapunov functional and blow-up results for a class of perturbed semilinear wave equations M A Hamza and H Zaag 2775 An estimate on the parabolic fractal dimension of the singular set for solutions of the Navier--Stokes system Igor Kukavica and Yuan Pei 2785 Entire solutions of nonlinear cellular neural networks with distributed time delays Shi-Liang Wu and Cheng-Hsiung Hsu