Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 13, Number 07 April 15, 2013 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: Gdynia Summer School on Dynamical Systems Conference on the Discrete Simulation of Fluid Dynamics Tenure Track Position, Scientific Computing, Amsterdam Postdoc Position, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Paris PhD Position, Retinal Hemodynamics, Paris Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B 18:5 Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B 18:6 Contents, Evolution Equations and Control Theory 2:2 Contents, The Journal of Geometric Mechanics 5:1 Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 252 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: Gdynia Summer School on Dynamical Systems From: Maria - Baltycki Instytut Matematyki Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:48:18 +0200 Gdynia Summer School on Dynamical Systems Conference center "Pomorski Park Naukowo-Technologiczny" of Gdynia July 8-17, 2013 web page: http://sites.google.com/site/ssods2013/ This meeting is mostly intended for Ph.D. students and postdocs working on Dynamical Systems and will provide a venue for meeting students with the similar research interests. Main topics: - Stability Theory - Chaotic Dynamics - Ergodic Theory - Billiards Theory - Additive Combinatorics - and more About twelve lecturers well-known in the field would give a 6-hour mini-course each. * Pablo Aguirre, The role of global invariant manifolds in the organisation of chaotic dynamics * Tomasz Downarowicz, The simplex of invariant measures in Dynamical Systems * Alexey Glutsyuk, On periodic orbits in complex analytic planar billiards * Eugene Gutkin, TBA * Sergei Kryzhewich, "Smooth" and "non-smooth" bifurcations of dynamical systems * Fedor Petrov, TBA * Alexandre Plakhov, Exterior billiards and their applications: invisibility, Newton's aerodynamic problem, etc * Witold Sadowski, Three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations * Katsutoshi Shinohara, Non-uniformly hyperbolic systems: looking through examples * Ilya Shkredov, Foundations of additive combinatorics * Wenxiang Sun, Entropy degeneracy of flows with fixed points * Vladlen Timorin, Topological models of rational functions * Denis Volk, Invariant foliations in partially hyperbolic dynamics Scientific Committee: Pablo Aguirre, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile Leonid Bunimovich, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Fritz Colonius, Institut fur Mathematik Universitat Augsburg, Germany Lorenzo J. Diaz, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Tomasz Downarowicz, Wroclaw Univercity of Technology, Poland Alexey Glutsyuk, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France Andrey Gogolev, Binghamton University, USA Sergei Kryzhevich, University of Aveiro, Portugal Kenneth Palmer, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (R.O.C.) Fedor Petrov, PDMI, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Alexandre Plakhov, University of Aveiro, Portugal James Robinson, University of Warwick, UK Kazuhiro Sakai, Research and Education Center for Natural Sciences, Keio University, Japan Martin Sambarino, Universidad de la republica Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay Wenxiang Sun, School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, P.R. China Denis Volk, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Organizing Comittee: Maria Sorokina, Nikita Zinoviev Deadline to register: June 10, 2013. Here is the link to the past edition of the (Winter 2013) Dynamical Systems School: http://baltinmat.eu/9-news/16-3d-school. The ARRIVAL DAY is July 7 The DEPARTURE DAY is July 18 The FREE DAY is July 14 The school fee is 300 EUR Fee includes (see https://sites.google.com/site/ssods2013/accommodation): Attending to the courses (100 EUR) Lodging in multiple hostel rooms with shared facilities for the whole period: 100 EUR Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner for the whole period (July 8-17): 100 EUR Questions and suggestions should be sent to the e-address: office@baltinmat.eu ------ Subject: Conference on the Discrete Simulation of Fluid Dynamics From: "Prof. Bruce Boghosian" Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 01:44:31 +0400 22nd Conference on the Discrete Simulation of Fluid Dynamics Yerevan, Armenia, 15-19 July 2013 The Organizing Committee of the international conference on the Discrete Simulation of Fluid Dynamics is pleased to invite you to the 22nd such conference, DSFD 2013 , to be held on the campus of the American University of Armenia in the beautiful and historic city of Yerevan, Armenia from 15-19 July 2013. The conference web page can be found here: . At this time, abstract submission is extended until at least 14 April 2013. We are pleased to confirm presentations by the following (partial) list of participants: Santosh Ansumali, Joerg Bernsdorf, Bruce Boghosian, Jean Pierre Boon, Peter Coveney, Paul Dellar, Giacomo Falcucci, Jens Harting, Takaji Inamuro, Ilia Karlin, Peter Love, David Meyer, Paulo Cesar Philippi, Marisol Ripoll, Xiaowen Shan, Sauro Succi, Federico Toschi, Stefano Ubertini, Alexander Wagner Because discrete computational fluid dynamic algorithms are very well suited for parallel and multi-threaded computation, work in this area tends to break new ground in computer science and computational science. Because the method of simulation extends to models of complex fluids, such as multiphase and amphiphilic flow, liquid crystals and non-Newtonian fluids, there is interest from many different areas of the natural sciences as well. The DSFD conferences are therefore truly interdisciplinary, and include participants from computer science, computational science, physics, engineering, mathematics, chemistry, and many other specialties. Please consider submitting an oral or poster presentation to DSFD 2013. Registration is already open. If you have any questions about the meeting, please use the convenient web form to contact us, or write to us by e-mail . ------ Subject: Tenure Track Position, Scientific Computing, Amsterdam From: Margreet Nool Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:12:26 +0200 Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) invites postdoctoral researchers to apply for a tenure track position in scientific computing within the Multiscale Dynamics group. We particularly invite qualified women to apply. Job description We are looking for an enthusiastic colleague, with an expertise in scientific computing, specifically applied to physical, chemical or engineering problems on a micro- to mesoscopic scale, with time dependent partial differential equations and/or Monte Carlo methods. You should bring a strong expertise in computational methods, and be interested to contribute to research on sustainable energy supply which is now one of the five strategic themes at CWI and a top sector in Dutch science policy. You will become member of the Multiscale Dynamics group that presently mostly focuses on modelling plasmas in thunderstorm related discharges as well as in high voltage engineering and applied nonequilibrium plasma physics; some of these topics are relevant to energy research. You will collaborate with the PhD students and the staff members on computational issues, and you can either join our plasma research or develop your own collaborations and application fields. This will also depend on the funding that you (on your own or together with colleagues) can find for attracting and supervising PhD students. For more details see https://www.cwi.nl/jobs/tenure-track-position-in-scientific-computing Additional information can be obtained from: Prof. dr. U. Ebert Tel. +31 (0) 20 592 4206 e-mail: Ute.Ebert@cwi.nl ------ Subject: Postdoc Position, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Paris From: Marica Pelanti Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:07:26 -0400 The Department of Mechanical Engineering of ENSTA ParisTech is inviting applications for a 12-month post-doctoral position in the domain of computational fluid dynamics. The successful candidate will participate to a project funded by the French Government Defense Procurement Agency (DGA) on "Full-Mach-number-range multiphase computational models for cavitating flows". The mission of the post-doctoral researcher will be to study and develop low Mach strategies for a two-phase liquid-vapor flow numerical model that we have developed in the framework of this research project. Applicants should hold a PhD in Applied Mathematics or Fluid Mechanics or Computational Science, have a strong background in numerical analysis and computational fluid dynamics, good knowledge of upwind finite volume schemes for hyperbolic systems, and skills in programming (Fortran). For a more detailed post-doc announcement please visit: http://www.ensta-paristech.fr/~pelanti/jobs.html Candidates should send a detailed CV, a concise research statement (maximum three pages) and the names and contact information of two referees to marica.pelanti@ensta-paristech.fr ------ Subject: PhD Position, Retinal Hemodynamics, Paris From: Jean-Frederic Gerbeau Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:57:29 -0400 This research will be conducted under the supervision of Jean-Frederic Gerbeau at INRIA Paris- Rocquencourt and Universite Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6, France, and in the framework of a European- funded four-year Marie Curie Initial Training Network Project REVAMMAD. Topic: This PhD thesis will address the mathematical modeling and the numerical simulation of various phenomenon taking place in the retina. The work will be in particular motivated by the modeling of diseases like the Retinopathy Of Prematurity (ROP), which is a common cause of blindness in children, or the Age Related Macular Degeneration (ARMD), which causes loss of central vision in the ageing population. A multiscale mathematical model of the hemodynamics will be proposed. Numerical simulations will be based on the data obtained from retinal imaging modalities used in the REVAMMAD network. Data assimilation techniques recently developed at INRIA will be used in order to adapt the model to measurements. Two questions could be considered during the project: modeling of the neovascularization under the action of vascular endothelium growth factor and modeling of the interaction between neural cells and microcirculation. Prerequisite: The PhD candidate must have a strong background in mathematical modeling and numerical methods for partial differential equations. The numerical method will be based on the finite element method and the software will be developped in C++. Eligibility rules: PhD students can be nationals of any country but must not have resided or carried out their main activity in France for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to their recruitment. Salary: about 2800 euros/month if the PhD candidate is single, about 3150 euros/month if the PhD candidate comes in France with a family. The official starting of the PhD can be anytime from now to April 2014. It is possible to start working as an intern or as a master student. Applications must be sent to Clare Desplats and Jean-Frederic.Gerbeau , as soon as possible and no later than the end of May 2013. ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B 18:5 From: Liwei Ning Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 16:21:58 -0500 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B (DCDS-B) Volume: 18, Number: 5 July 2013 http://www.aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=588 1. Constrained energy minimization and ground states for NLS with point defects Pages : 1155 - 1188 Riccardo Adami, Diego Noja and Nicola Visciglia 2. Optimally swimming stokesian robots Pages : 1189 - 1215 Francois Alouges, Antonio DeSimone, Luca Heltai, Aline Lefebvre-Lepot and Benot Merlet 3. The existence of weak solutions to immiscible compressible two-phase flow in porous media: The case of fields with different rock-types Pages : 1217 - 1251 Brahim Amaziane, Leonid Pankratov and Andrey Piatnitski 4. Analysis and numerical approximations of equations of nonlinear poroelasticity Pages : 1253 - 1273 Yanzhao Cao, Song Chen and A. J. Meir 5. Finite-time quenching of competing species with constrained boundary evaporation Pages : 1275 - 1290 Shu Dai, Dong Li and Kun Zhao 6. Traveling wave solutions for a diffusive sis epidemic model Pages : 1291 - 1304 Wei Ding, Wenzhang Huang and Siroj Kansakar 7. Analytical and numerical results on the positivity of steady state solutions of a thin film equation Pages : 1305 - 1321 Daniel Ginsberg and Gideon Simpson 8. The evolution of the orbit distance in the double averaged restricted 3-body problem with crossing singularities Pages : 1323 - 1344 Giovanni F. Gronchi and Chiara Tardioli 9. On the Mountain-Pass algorithm for the quasi-linear Schrodinger equation Pages : 1345 - 1360 Christopher Grumiau, Marco Squassina and Christophe Troestler 10. Numerical study of blow-up in the Davey-Stewartson system Pages : 1361 - 1387 Christian Klein, Benson Muite and Kristelle Roidot 11. Sign-changing solutions of a quasilinear heat equation with a source term Pages : 1389 - 1414 Guirong Liu and Yuanwei Qi 12. Analysis of a scalar nonlocal peridynamic model with a sign changing kernel Pages : 1415 - 1437 Tadele Mengesha and Qiang Du 13. Dynamics of a limit cycle oscillator with extended delay feedback Pages : 1439 - 1458 Ben Niu and Weihua Jiang 14. A relaxation method for one dimensional traveling waves of singular and nonlocal equations Pages : 1459 - 1491 Weiran Sun and Min Tang 15. L^\infty estimation of the LDG method for 1-d singularly perturbed convection-diffusion problems Pages : 1493 - 1505 Huiqing Zhu and Runchang Lin 16. Stationary distribution and stochastic Hopf bifurcation for a predator-prey system with noises Pages : 1507 - 1519 Xiaoling Zou, Dejun Fan and Ke Wang ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B 18:6 From: Liwei Ning Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 16:25:41 -0500 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B (DCDS-B) Volume: 18, Number: 6 August 2013 http://www.aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=589 1. Preface Pages : i - ii Tomas Caraballo and Hans-Otto Walther 2. A note on the analysis of asymptotic mean-square stability properties for systems of linear stochastic delay differential equations Pages : 1521 - 1531 Evelyn Buckwar and Girolama Notarangelo 3. Invariance and monotonicity for stochastic delay differential equations Pages : 1533 - 1554 Igor Chueshov and Michael Scheutzow 4. Exponential stability for a class of linear hyperbolic equations with hereditary memory Pages : 1555 - 1565 Monica Conti, Elsa M. Marchini and Vittorino Pata 5. Asymptotic behaviour for a class of delayed cooperative models with patch structure Pages : 1567 - 1579 Teresa Faria 6. Singular limit of viscous Cahn-Hilliard equations with memory and dynamic boundary conditions Pages : 1581 - 1610 Ciprian G. Gal and Maurizio Grasselli 7. Parameter estimation by quasilinearization in differential equations with state-dependent delays Pages : 1611 - 1631 Ferenc Hartung 8. A state-dependent delay equation with negative feedback and "mildly unstable" rapidly oscillating periodic solutions Pages : 1633 - 1650 Benjamin B. Kennedy 9. Quadratic control problem of neutral Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes with control delays Pages : 1651 - 1661 Kai Liu 10. Unstable invariant manifolds for a nonautonomous differential equation with nonautonomous unbounded delay Pages : 1663 - 1681 Arne Ogrowsky and Bjon Schmalfuss 11. Exponential growth rate for a singular linear stochastic delay differential equation Pages : 1683 - 1696 Michael Scheutzow 12. Khasminskii-type theorems for stochastic functional differential equations Pages : 1697 - 1714 Minghui Song, Liangjian Hu, Xuerong Mao and Liguo Zhang 13. Mean-square random attractors of stochastic delay differential equations with random delay Pages : 1715 - 1734 Fuke Wu and Peter E. Kloeden ------ Subject: Contents, Evolution Equations and Control Theory 2:2 From: Liwei Ning Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 16:29:29 -0500 Evolution Equations and Control Theory (EECT)) Volume: 2, Number: 2 June 2013 http://www.aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=590 1. Preface: Introduction to the Special Volume on Nonlinear PDEs and Control Theory with Applications Pages : i - ii Lorena Bociu, Barbara Kaltenbacher and Petronela Radu 2. Stability analysis of non-linear plates coupled with Darcy flows Pages : 193 - 232 Eugenio Aulisa, Akif Ibragimov and Emine Yasemen Kaya-Cekin 3. Rational decay rates for a PDE heat--structure interaction: A frequency domain approach Pages : 233 - 253 George Avalos and Roberto Triggiani 4. Regular solutions of wave equations with super-critical sources and exponential-to-logarithmic damping Pages : 255 - 279 Lorena Bociu, Petronela Radu and Daniel Toundykov 5. Avoiding degeneracy in the Westervelt equation by state constrained optimal control Pages : 281 - 300 Christian Clason and Barbara Kaltenbacher 6. Higher differentiability in the context of Besov spaces for a class of nonlocal functionals Pages : 301 - 318 Mikil Foss and Joe Geisbauer 7. Global existence for exterior problems of semilinear wave equations with the null condition in 2D Pages : 319 - 335 Hideo Kubo 8. A local existence result for a system of viscoelasticity with physical viscosity Pages : 337 - 353 Marta Lewicka and Piotr B. Mucha 9. Recovery of the sound speed and initial displacement for the wave equation by means of a single Dirichlet boundary measurement Pages : 355 - 364 Shitao Liu 10. Global well-posedness and exponential stability for Kuznetsov's equation in Lp-spaces Pages : 365 - 378 Stefan Meyer and Mathias Wilke 11. Controllability of a 1-D tank containing a fluid modeled by a Boussinesq system Pages : 379 - 402 Dugan Nina, Ademir Fernando Pazoto and Lionel Rosier 12. Nonlinear instability of solutions in parabolic and hyperbolic diffusion Pages : 403 - 422 Stephen Pankavich and Petronela Radu 13. Asymptotic behavior of the solution to the Cauchy problem for the Timoshenko system in thermoelasticity of type III Pages : 423 - 440 Belkacem Said-Houari and Radouane Rahali ------ Subject: Contents, The Journal of Geometric Mechanics 5:1 From: Liwei Ning Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:59:35 -0500 The Journal of Geometric Mechanics (JGM) Volume: 5, Number: 1 March 2013 http://www.aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=591 1. Continuous and discrete embedded optimal control problems and their application to the analysis of Clebsch optimal control problems and mechanical systems Pages : 1 - 38 Anthony M. Bloch, Peter E. Crouch and Nikolaj Nordkvist 2. Geometric dynamics on the automorphism group of principal bundles: Geodesic flows, dual pairs and chromomorphism groups Pages : 39 - 84 Fran\c{c}ois Gay-Balmaz, Cesare Tronci and Cornelia Vizman 3. Vector fields with distributions and invariants of ODEs Pages : 85 - 129 Bronislaw Jakubczyk and Wojciech Krynski 4. Computing metamorphoses between discrete measures Pages : 131 - 150 Casey L. Richardson and Laurent Younes ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 252 From: ScienceDirect Message Center Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 19:59:59 -0400 * Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena Volume 252, Pages 1-64, 1 June 2013 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01672789/252 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) Editorial Board Pages IFC 2) Stochastic dynamics of electric dipole in external electric fields: A perturbed nonlinear pendulum approach Original Research Article, Pages 1-21 Sergey V. Kapranov, Guennadi A. Kouzaev 3) A parallel algorithm for the computation of invariant tori in large-scale dissipative systems Original Research Article, Pages 22-33 J. Sanchez, M. Net 4) A statistically accurate modified quasilinear Gaussian closure for uncertainty quantification in turbulent dynamical systems Original Research Article, Pages 34-45 Themistoklis P. Sapsis, Andrew J. Majda 5) Nonlinear targeted energy transfer and macroscopic analog of the quantum Landau-Zener effect in coupled granular chains Original Research Article, Pages 46-58 M.A. Hasan, Y. Starosvetsky, A.F. Vakakis, L.I. Manevitch 6) Extreme events in two-dimensional disordered nonlinear lattices Original Research Article, Pages 59-64 A. Maluckov, N. Lazarides, G.P. Tsironis, Lj. Hadzievski