Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 13, Number 05 March 15, 2013 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: Conference, AMMCS-2013 Workshop, Cultural and Opinion Dynamics Workshop, Bifurcations in Piecewise-Smooth Systems Conference on Nonlinear Localized Excitations in Crystals Conference on Qualitative and Geometric Aspects of Elliptic PDEs Workshop, Variational Methods and Partial Differential Equations Postdoctoral fellowship in Nice Marie Curie PhD positions in Pisa Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series S 6:5 Contents, Mathematical Control and Related Fields 3:2 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: Conference, AMMCS-2013 From: ammcs 2013 Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:10:47 -0400 AMMCS-2013, Waterloo, Canada * Call for submissions Dear Colleague: AMMCS-2013 is an interdisciplinary international conference in a series of AMMCS meetings held in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (http://www.ammcs2013.wlu.ca/). The series aims at promoting interdisciplinary research and collaboration involving mathematical and computational sciences. This year the conference will be held in the last week of August (August 26 -* 30, 2013). It is organized in cooperation with AIMS and SIAM and is supported by the Fields Institute. The abstract submission deadline for AMMCS-2013 is in April and it is quickly approaching. AMMCS-2013 participants are invited to submit their abstracts on-line at: http://www.ammcs2013.wlu.ca/submit-abstract.html AMMCS-2013 Plenary Speakers include -- Peter Carr (Morgan Stanley), -- Emily Carter (Princeton University), -- Ronald Coifman (Yale University), -- Marty Golubitsky (Ohio State University), -- Lila Kari (Western University), -- Andrew Majda (New York University), -- Panos Pardalos (University of Florida), -- George Papanicolau (Stanford University), -- Michael Sigal (University of Toronto), -- Godfried Toussaint (NYUAD/M.I.T./McGill). The AMMCS Kolmogorov-Wiener Prize for Young Researchers and several student prizes will be awarded at the conference. Travel scholarships for students are available on a competitive basis. The conference has over 40 minisymposia, special and contributed sessions. If you did not submit your work yet, we look forward to your contribution and to welcoming you in Waterloo on the occasion of this exciting scientific event. Thank you and kind regards. ------ Subject: Workshop, Cultural and Opinion Dynamics From: Timoteo Carletti Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:29:41 +0100 We are pleasured to announce the organization of the third workshop Cultural and Opinion Dynamics: call for papers, CODYM, during ECCS'2013, on the 18th of September 2013. The workshop aims at: - Drawing collectively the "state of the art" of the currently available main families of hypotheses (models) and the applicability domains, the corresponding set of emergent dynamics (results) and the -- possible -- role of the different hypotheses about the type of network of interactions. - Reducing the gap with social experiments and to go beyond the disciplines borders, by interacting with social-psychologists to learn about the current state of experiments. To find a common framework to design new experimental techniques based on modern technologies (sensor devices, smartphones apps, internet interfaces). - Discussing the model validation with real data and analyze which kind of stylized fact of reality are reproduced. - Fostering the research by exchanging knowledge concerning methods for abstract models, for the set of emergent phenomena. - Discussing the main challenges to address by the field in the years to come, both theoretically and experimentally, with a particular emphasis to web collected experimental data. Original works should be submitted using the easychair platform by the 1st of May, only extended abstracts, i.e. not longer than two A4 pages using 11pts Times New Roman fonts (or equivalent ones), will be considered. We encourage you to include in your submission the following sections :State of the art, Aim, Method, Results and Conclusions. Each paper, made anonymous, will be reviewed by two reviewers among the program committee members. Each paper will be ranked on several dimensions such as clarity, quality of the review, innovation, quality of the analysis.The authors of the selected paper will be informed by the 1st of June. A selection of the best papers should be envisaged for a topical issue of Advances for Complex Systems The topical issue "ECCS'13-CODYM 2013" will be published in ACS during 2014. We expect 40 minutes talks plus 5 minutes for questions/answers/ discussions. The schedule will be organized according to the number of papers selected by the program committee. The timetable will contain some slots to general discussions. You can find more information on the CODYM web site http://www.fundp.ac.be/en/sci/naxys/eccs2013 For the organizing committee of CODYM 2013 Timoteo Carletti, Guillaume Deffuant, Sylvie Huet, Floriana Gargiulo and Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron ------ Subject: Workshop, Bifurcations in Piecewise-Smooth Systems From: sicc Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 18:38:41 -0700 8th SICC International Tutorial Workshop Topics in Nonlinear Dynamics BIFURCATIONS in PIECEWISE-SMOOTH SYSTEMS: PERSPECTIVES, METHODOLOGIES and OPEN PROBLEMS September 11-13, 2013 University of Urbino 'Carlo Bo', Urbino (PU), Italy The aim of the workshop is to provide an informal environment for scientific discussions and exchange of ideas on the open problems and challenges in the area of bifurcations in piecewise smooth systems and their applications. Both introductory and advanced topics will be presented by a set of internationally leading researchers in the field. The programme of the workshop is organized on three days devoted to discrete time systems, continuous time flows and applications respectively. The workshop is primarily oriented to PhD students, young and experienced researchers and professionals working in the broad area of engineering, mathematics, physics and applied science. All presentations will be given in English. Lecturers Anna Agliari (Piacenza, Italy) Viktor Avrutin (Stuttgart & Urbino, Germany & Italy) Flaviano Battelli (Ancona, Italy) Gian Italo Bischi (Urbino, Italy) Federico Bizzarri (Milano, Italy) Alessandro Colombo (Milano, Italy) Mario di Bernardo (Napoli & Bristol, Italy & United Kingdom) Enric Fossas (Barcelona, Spain) John Hogan (Bristol, United Kingdom) Luigi Iannelli (Benevento, Italy) Liliana Ironi (Pavia, Italy) Mike Jeffrey (Bristol, United Kingdom) Vlastimil Krivan (Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic) Luciano Lopez (Bari, Italy) Anastasiia Panchuk (Kiev, Ukraine) Petri Piiroinen (Galway, Ireland) Davide Radi (Bergamo, Italy) Iryna Sushko (Kiev, Ukraine) Fabio Tramontana (Pavia, Italy) Zhanybai Zhusubaliyev (Kursk, Russia) For information and application visit http://tutorial-sicc.mdef.it ------ Subject: Conference on Nonlinear Localized Excitations in Crystals From: Juan FR Archilla Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 22:09:18 +0100 We are organizing a conference, called Quodons in Mica: nonlinear localized excitations in crystals, a meeting in honour of Mike Russell, in Altea, Alicante, September 18-21, 2013. http://www.quodons.webs.upv.es/, Email: infoquodons@upv.es It is dedicated to the outstanding and unconventional scientific Mike Russell. His book I saw a crystal: A brief account of the deciphering of the markings in mica can be downloaded from http://www.quodons.webs.upv.es/docs/i-saw-a-crystal-mike-russell2010.pdf The aim of the conference is to clarify what is the state of the science, experimentally and theoretically, with respect to the existence and properties of localized excitations travelling in crystals. These excitations, for example, can be breathers, kinks, solitons and others. The conference has a special interest in mica but is not restricted to it. In particular, evidence for quodons or other kinds of excitations in other materials, such as metals and semiconductors, will be of high interest. Since a striking property of mica is its ability to record disturbances at the atomic level, both the tracking process and what has been recorded are important. Protected from external influences while recording events deep underground, with capture times of hundreds of years or more, it has the potential to record very rare events. Application to topical matters, such as dark matter and dark energy, are of upmost interest to the conference. The organizing commitee Quodons in Mica Altea, September 18-21, 2013 http://www.quodons.webs.upv.es/ ------ Subject: Conference on Qualitative and Geometric Aspects of Elliptic PDEs From: Xavier Cabre Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:45:07 +0100 Conference on Qualitative and Geometric Aspects of Elliptic PDE's Dates: September 2 to 6, 2013 Place: Centre de Recerca Matematica, Barcelona (Spain) http://www.crm.cat/en/Activities/Pages/ActivityFoldersAndPages/Curs%202013-2014/cellipticpdes.aspx Main topics - Existence and symmetry properties of solutions to the Allen-Cahn and related equations, including free boundary problems - Minimal surfaces and isoperimetric inequalities - Fractional diffusion and front propagation List of speakers Vicent Caselles (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain) Manuel del Pino (Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile) Alberto Farina (Universite de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France) Alessio Figalli (The University of Texas, Austin, USA) Fran\c{c}ois Hamel (IUF, Marseille, France) Nikola Kamburov (MIT, Cambridge, USA) Moritz Kassmann (Universitat Bielefeld, Germany) Enno Lenzmann (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Yanyan Li (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA) Chang-Shou Lin (National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan) Carlo Mantegazza (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy) Robert McCann (University of Toronto Bahen Centre, Toronto, Canada) Frank Morgan (Williams College, Massachusetts, USA) Nikolai Nadirashvili (CNRS et Universite d'Aix-Marseille, France) Frank Pacard (Ecole Polytechnique and Universite Paris Est-Creteil, France) Ireneo Peral (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain) Joaquin Perez (Universidad de Granada, Spain) Aldo Pratelli (Universitat Erlangen-NUrnberg, Germany) Jean-Michel Roquejoffre (Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France) Antonio Ros (Universidad de Granada, Spain) Bernardino Sciunzi (Universita della Calabria, Cosenza, Italy) Joel Spruck (John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA) Gabriella Tarantello (Universita Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy) Juan Luis Vazquez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain) Jun-Cheng Wei (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, China) Organising and Scientific Committee Xavier Cabre (ICREA and Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) Daniele Castorina (Universita degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata") Manel Sanchon (Universitat de Barcelona) Enrico Valdinoci (Universita di Milano) ------ Subject: Workshop, Variational Methods and Partial Differential Equations From: PDELLN2013 Workshop Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:16:48 +0100 Dear colleague, first, we apologize for possible cross-postings. On the occasion of Michel Willem's 60th birthday, we are organizing a workshop in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), on July 11-12, 2013. The following speakers have confirmed their presence: Thomas Bartsch (Universitaet Giessen) Silvia Cingolani ( Politecnico di Bari) Louis Dupaigne (Universite de Picardie) Bernd Kawohl (Universitaet Koeln) Andrzej Szulkin (Stockholms universitet) Susanna Terracini (Universita di Torino) Zhi-Qiang Wang (Utah State University) Tobias Weth (Universitaet Frankfurt am Main) On the day before the workshop, there will be a mini-course adressed to Ph. D. students. More information is available on the website: http://sites.uclouvain.be/pde2013/ Best regards, The organizing and scientific comittee, Thomas Bartsch (Universitaet Giessen) Denis Bonheure (Universite libre de Bruxelles) Jean-Pierre Gossez (Universite libre de Bruxelles) Jean-Pierre Gossez (Universite libre de Bruxelles) Jean Mawhin (Universite catholique de Louvain) Enrique Lami Dozo (Universite libre de Bruxelles & Universidad de Buenos Aires) Augusto Ponce (Universite catholique de Louvain) Didier Smets (Universite de Paris 6) Christophe Troestler (Universite de Mons) Jean Van Schaftingen (Universite catholique de Louvain) ------ Subject: Postdoctoral fellowship in Nice From: Laurent.STOLOVITCH@unice.fr Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 21:09:01 +0100 Postdoctoral Fellowship for the academic year 2013-2014 A postdoctoral fellowship in Nice (France) for 12 months, starting September 1st 2013, is offered as part of the ongoing ANR project on "Dynamics and Pde's". The Nice component of this project is formed by Gerard Iooss, Reinhard Schafke (Strasbourg), Eric Lombardi (Toulouse) and Laurent Stolovitch. The Paris component is headed by J.-C Yoccoz, the Nantes component is headed by G. Popov. Candidates should be finishing or have recently finished their PH.D and work in one or several of the following areas : small divisors and resonances problems, dynamical systems in finite or infinite dimension, Pde's from the dynamical system point of view, rigidity problems in geometry (for instance, rigidity of geometric structures). The applications should be sent by mail and e-mail to Laurent Stolovitch (Laboratoire Dieudonne, Universite de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, ParcValrose 06108 Nice Cedex 02 France ; stolo@unice.fr ) and consist of a CV (+ publication list), a short description of the past research of the candidate and a research project. The deadline for applications is April 5th 2013. ------ Subject: Marie Curie PhD positions in Pisa From: Giovanni-Federico Gronchi Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:27:43 +0100 (CET) The Department of Mathematics of the University of Pisa offers 2 fully funded Early Stage Research (ESR) positions as part of STARDUST, a Marie Curie Initial Training Network. These positions concern the following subjects: 1) investigate new methods for long term orbit propagation of near-Earth asteroids, and search for potentially hazardous objects; search for new orbit determination methods and compare them to the existing ones; 2) investigate correlation algorithms for space debris, with optical and radar observations, and compare them with the existing ones; define efficient algorithms to perform the collision avoidance between space debris and active satellites of the Earth, using different propagation methods. More information are available at: http://www.strath.ac.uk/media/faculties/engineering/research/fastt/stardust/Stardust_ESR5.pdf http://www.strath.ac.uk/media/faculties/engineering/research/fastt/stardust/Stardust_ESR6.pdf APPLICATIONS: Interested candidates should send a curriculum vitae (CV in English), two letters of reference sent directly by the referees and a cover letter explaining their motivation and research interests by e-mail to both Dott. Giovanni F. Gronchi (gronchi@dm.unipi.it) and Prof. Andrea Milani (milani@dm.unipi.it). Scholarship Application Deadline: 30 April 2013 Starting date: October 2013 Contact information: Dott. Giovanni F. Gronchi (gronchi@dm.unipi.it) ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series S 6:5 From: Liwei Ning Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 14:24:11 -0600 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series S (DCDS-S) Volume: 6, Number: 5 October 2013 http://www.aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=585 1. Foreword Pages : i - iii Reinhard Farwig, Jiri Neustupa and Patrick Penel 2. Lp-theory for the Navier-Stokes equations with pressure boundary conditions Pages : 1113 - 1137 Cherif Amrouche and Nour El Houda Seloula 3. On the blow-up problem for the Euler equations and the Liouville type results in the fluid equations Pages : 1139 - 1150 Dongho Chae 4. Time-averages of fast oscillatory systems Pages : 1151 - 1162 Bin Cheng and Alex Mahalov 5. Divergence Pages : 1163 - 1172 Raphael Danchin and Piotr B. Mucha 6. On the global regularity for nonlinear systems of the p-Laplacian type Pages : 1173 - 1191 Hugo Beirao da Veiga and Francesca Crispo 7. On the motion of rigid bodies in an incompressible or compressible viscous fluid under the action of gravitational forces Pages : 1193 - 1213 Bernard Ducomet and Sarka Necasova 8. Uniqueness of backward asymptotically almost periodic-in-time solutions to Navier-Stokes equations in unbounded domains Pages : 1215 - 1224 Reinhard Farwig and Yasushi Taniuchi 9. On instability of the Ekman spiral Pages : 1225 - 1236 Andre Fischer and Jurgen Saal 10. Existence and uniqueness of time-periodic solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations in the whole plane Pages : 1237 - 1257 Giovanni P. Galdi 11. H-calculus for a system of Laplace operators with mixed order boundary conditions Pages : 1259 - 1275 Matthias Geissert, Horst Heck and Christof Trunk 12. A remark on a Liouville problem with boundary for the Stokes and the Navier-Stokes equations Pages : 1277 - 1289 Yoshikazu Giga 13. On the anisotropic Orlicz spaces applied in the problems of continuum mechanics Pages : 1291 - 1306 Piotr Gwiazda, Piotr Minakowski and Agnieszka Swierczewska-Gwiazda 14. Remarks on the theory of Oldroyd-B fluids in exterior domains Pages : 1307 - 1313 Matthias Hieber 15. On a mapping property of the Oseen operator with rotation Pages : 1315 - 1322 Mads Kyed 16. remark on the Stokes problem in Lorentz spaces Pages : 1323 - 1342 Paolo Maremonti 17. On stability of a capillary liquid down an inclined plane Pages : 1343 - 1353 Mariarosaria Padula 18. Various boundary conditions for Navier-Stokes equations in bounded Lipschitz domains Pages : 1355 - 1369 Sylvie Monniaux 19. On Prandtl's turbulence model: Existence of weak solutions to the equations of stationary turbulent pipe-flow Pages : 1371 - 1390 Joachim Naumann and Jorg Wolf 20. A note on local interior regularity of a suitable weak solution to the Navier-Stokes problem Pages : 1391 - 1400 Jiri Neustupa 21. Improvement of some anisotropic regularity criteria for the Navier-Stokes equations Pages : 1401 - 1407 Patrick Penel and Milan Pokorny 22. Analytic rates of solutions to the Euler equations Pages : 1409 - 1415 Okihiro Sawada 23. Local pressure methods in Orlicz spaces for the motion of rigid bodies in a non-Newtonian fluid with general growth conditions Pages : 1417 - 1425 Aneta Wroblewska-Kaminska 24. Long time existence of regular solutions to non-homogeneous Navier-Stokes equations Pages : 1427 - 1455 Wojciech M. Zajaczkowski ------ Subject: Contents, Mathematical Control and Related Fields 3:2 From: Susan Cummins Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 14:36:53 -0600 Mathematical Control and Related Fields (MCRF) Volume: 3, Number: 2 June 2013 http://www.aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=586 1. Numerical discretization of stabilization problems with boundary controls for systems of hyperbolic conservation laws Pages : 121 - 142 Mapundi K. Banda and Michael Herty 2. Stability of the determination of a time-dependent coefficient in parabolic equations Pages : 143 - 160 Mourad Choulli and Yavar Kian 3. Controllability problems for the 1-d wave equations on a half-axis with Neumann boundary control Pages : 161 - 183 Larissa V. Fardigola 4. Time optimal control for a nonholonomic system with state constraint Pages : 185 - 208 Jerome Loheac and Jean-Francois Scheid 5. Stock trading rules under a switchable market Pages : 209 - 231 Duy Nguyen, Jingzhi Tie and Qing Zhang 6. Constrained BSDEs, viscosity solutions of variational inequalities and their applications Pages : 233 - 244 Shige Peng and Mingyu Xu