Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 13, Number 10 June 1, 2013 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: 6th Elgersburg School on Mathematical Systems Theory PhD Position, RWTH Aachen Univ Postdoc/PhD Positions, Numerical Porous Media Tenure Track Positions, Uppsala Univ Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A 33 11/12 Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series S 6:6 Contents, Journal of Modern Dynamics 7:1 Contents, Kinetic and Related Models 6:3 Contents, Networks and Heterogeneous Media 8:2 Contents, Nonlinearity 26:6 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: 6th Elgersburg School on Mathematical Systems Theory From: Timo Reis Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 16:01:38 +0200 6th ELGERSBURG SCHOOL MATHEMATICAL SYSTEMS THEORY Elgersburg (Germany) March 16 - 22, 2014 Control of Hybrid Systems - Professor Andrew Teel Univ. of California, Santa Barbara http://engineering.ucsb.edu/faculty/profile/160 - Professor Rafal Goebel, Loyola University Chicago http://www.luc.edu/math/ftfaculty/goebel.shtml Mathematical Biology - Professor Stuart Townley, University of Exeter, UK http://www.exeter.ac.uk/esi/people/townley/ - Dr Chris Guiver, University of Exeter,UK http://www.exeter.ac.uk/esi/people/guiver/ The school is addressed to postgraduate students or postdocs in control, either in mathematics or engineering, very good graduate students are also welcome. We would be grateful if you could pass on this information to any potential candidates. Due to the limited number of places there will be an application procedure for participation at the school. Applicants are asked to provide their CV and a letter of reference from their supervisor. The deadline for applications is November 30, 2013. The organizers will then rank the applications according to excellence and suitability. A list of all participants will be available on the web site by January 15, 2014. For further information please see http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/math/forschung/tagungen/elgersburg-schools/elgersburg-school-2014/ ------ Subject: PhD Position, RWTH Aachen Univ From: Stefanie Elgeti Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 08:31:39 +0200 Simulation techniques have become an important instrument for the development, design and quality assurance of engineering components. Since its foundation in 2004, the Chair for Computational Analysis of Technical Systems conducts active research at the interface between mechanical engineering and applied mathematics. Our main focus is the development and implementation of numerical methods. Currently, we are searching for new doctoral candidates to complement our group in one of the following areas: Biomedical engineering: Modeling of blood flow and blood damage; Shape optimization of biomedical devices; Fluid-structure interaction in biomedical devices Aerospace engineering: Static and dynamic aeroelasticity; Optimal control and uncertainty quantification; Vortex-induced vibrations Production technology: Modeling of plastics melts in injection moulding, welding, or extrusion; Modeling of high-pressure die casting; Shape optimization for mould-based manufacturing processes; Heat transport in manufacturing processes Requirement for the position is a university master's degree in engineering, applied mathematics, physics or a similar subject, with a superior academic record. Practical programming experience in Fortran or C as well as in parallelization (MPI or OpenMP) are of advantage. We expect you to contribute to general tasks at the institute, such as teaching and advising master or project theses. In particular, the teaching will involve the course Simulation Methods for Mechanical Engineers, and requires knowledge of the German language. ------ Subject: Postdoc/PhD Positions, Numerical Porous Media From: "R. Bradley Shumbera, Ph.D." Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 11:00:36 -0400 The Numerical Porous Media (NumPor) Strategic Research Initiative at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has several postdoc and Ph.D. student positions available in the integrated area of porous media modeling and simulations. NumPor is uniquely positioned to contribute to porous media research in several directions including subsurface applications and industrial porous materials, and interact with industry in the region. We are looking for postdocs and Ph.D. students with experience in modeling and simulations in porous media. Specific areas of expertise are: 1. Multiscale simulation in filtration. Required Experience: developing algorithms and software for CFD applications; modeling and simulation of solid-liquid, or gas-liquid separation; C++; team work. Desired experience in some of the fields of: multiscale problems; simulation of particle trajectories under different forces (for spherical and/or for non-spherical, rigid and/or non-rigid particles); fluid interaction with porous structures; HPC; collaboration with industry. 2. Fuel cells. Required Experience: developing algorithms and software for multiphase flow in porous media; modeling and simulation of multiphysics problems; C++. Desired experience: working with DuMuX and DUNE; multiscale problems; HPC; team work. 3. Porous media modeling and simulations. Required Experience: multiscale modeling; excellent computational skills; knowledge of fluid and solid mechanics and fluid-structure interactions; team work. 4. Dynamic data-driven application systems (DDDAS). smart sensor experience; network communications; numerical methods for nonlinear time dependent partial differential equations is a plus; programming in C or C++ and Python; experience with parallel computers. For Ph.D. students - The positions are open for those majoring in Applied and Computational Math, Computer Science, and Engineering. The positions will be allocated among NumPor projects that include: theoretical, computational, and industrial projects. Team work is expected. The PhD fellow will report to the professor and will be encouraged to interact with other NumPor researchers. Ph.D. students are expected to attend frequent short courses offered by renowned international visitors and learn state-of-the-art porous media software tools developed by NumPor researchers. Salary is highly competitive. Excellent benefits are provided which include housing and medical insurance for employees (including Ph.D. students) and immediate family members. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is an international research university. The campus is located on the Red Sea in Thuwal which is near Jeddah, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Please send your application to Dongming Li at . For more information regarding the research in NumPor you can also contact Victor Calo , Craig Douglas , Yalchin Efendiev , Oleg Iliev , or visit http://www.numpor.org. ------ Subject: Tenure Track Positions, Uppsala Univ From: Per Lotstedt Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 11:37:55 -0400 The Faculty of Science and Technology at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden, is seeking ten future leaders in research and teaching in a subject area within mathematics, computer science, or the sciences, e.g. in numerical analysis, scientific computing, or computational science and engineering. The description of the tenure track positions and the application procedure are found at http://www.uu.se/jobb/teacher/annonsvisning?languageId=1&tarContentId=242814 The last date for application is June 23, 2013. ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A 33 11/12 From: Liwei Ning Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 11:52:54 -0500 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A (DCDS-A) Volume: 33, Number: 11/12 November/December 2013 http://www.aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=600 1. Preface Pages : i - ii Gisele Ruiz Goldstein and Alain Miranville 2. Floquet representations and asymptotic behavior of periodic evolution families Pages : 4795 - 4810 Fatih Bayazit, Ulrich Groh and Rainer Nagel 3. Singularity formation and blowup of complex-valued solutions of the modified KdV equation Pages : 4811 - 4840 Jerry L. Bona, Stephane Vento and Fred B. Weissler 4. Periodic traveling--wave solutions of nonlinear dispersive evolution equations Pages : 4841 - 4873 Hongqiu Chen and Jerry L. Bona 5. On the asymptotic behavior of variational inequalities set in cylinders Pages : 4875 - 4890 Michel Chipot and Karen Yeressian 6. Hopf bifurcation for a size-structured model with resting phase Pages : 4891 - 4921 Jixun Chu and Pierre Magal 7. On a Dirichlet problem in bounded domains with singular nonlinearity Pages : 4923 - 4944 Giuseppe Maria Coclite and Mario Michele Coclite 8. Ultraparabolic equations with nonlocal delayed boundary conditions Pages : 4945 - 4965 Gabriella Di Blasio 9. Boundary value problem for elliptic differential equations in non-commutative cases Pages : 4967 - 4990 Angelo Favini, Rabah Labbas, Stephane Maingot and Maelis Meisner 10. Resolution and optimal regularity for a biharmonic equation with impedance boundary conditions and some generalizations Pages : 4991 - 5014 Angelo Favini, Rabah Labbas, Keddour Lemrabet, Stephane Maingot and Hassan D. Sidibe 11. Local Hadamard well--posedness and blow--up for reaction--diffusion equations with non--linear dynamical boundary conditions Pages : 5015 - 5047 Alessio Fiscella and Enzo Vitillaro 12. On the Ornstein Uhlenbeck operator perturbed by singular potentials in Lp--spaces Pages : 5049 - 5058 Simona Fornaro and Abdelaziz Rhandi 13. Prey-predator models with infected prey and predators Pages : 5059 - 5066 J. Gani and R. J. Swift 14. On a class of model Hilbert spaces Pages : 5067 - 5088 Fritz Gesztesy, Rudi Weikard and Maxim Zinchenko 15. Nonlocal phase-field systems with general potentials Pages : 5089 - 5106 Maurizio Grasselli and Giulio Schimperna 16. Partial reconstruction of the source term in a linear parabolic initial problem with Dirichlet boundary conditions Pages : 5107 - 5141 Davide Guidetti 17. Well-posedness results for the Navier-Stokes equations in the rotational framework Pages : 5143 - 5151 Matthias Hieber and Sylvie Monniaux 18. Multiplicity results for classes of singular problems on an exterior domain Pages : 5153 - 5166 Eunkyoung Ko, Eun Kyoung Lee and R. Shivaji 19. On the nonexistence of positive solutions to doubly nonlinear equations for Baouendi-Grushin operators Pages : 5167 - 5176 Ismail Kombe 20. Coagulation and fragmentation processes with evolving size and shape profiles: A semigroup approach Pages : 5177 - 5187 Wilson Lamb, Adam McBride and Louise Smith 21. Maximal regularity and global existence of solutions to a quasilinear thermoelastic plate system Pages : 5189 - 5202 Irena Lasiecka and Mathias Wilke 22. Stability estimates for semigroups on Banach spaces Pages : 5203 - 5216 Yuri Latushkin and Valerian Yurov 23. Recovering damping and potential coefficients for an inverse non-homogeneous second-order hyperbolic problem via a localized Neumann boundary trace Pages : 5217 - 5252 Shitao Liu and Roberto Triggiani 24. An identification problem for a nonlinear one-dimensional wave equation Pages : 5253 - 5271 Alfredo Lorenzi and Eugenio Sinestrari 25. A thermo piezoelectric model: Exponential decay of the total energy Pages : 5273 - 5292 Gustavo Alberto Perla Menzala and Julian Moises Sejje Suarez 26. How to distinguish a local semigroup from a global semigroup Pages : 5293 - 5303 J. W. Neuberger 27. Rational approximations of semigroups without scaling and squaring Pages : 5305 - 5317 Frank Neubrander, Koray Ozer and Teresa Sandmaier 28. Understanding Thomas-Fermi-Like approximations: Averaging over oscillating occupied orbitals Pages : 5319 - 5325 John P. Perdew and Adrienn Ruzsinszky 29. An interface problem: The two-layer shallow water equations Pages : 5327 - 5345 Madalina Petcu and Roger Temam 30. Global existence via a multivalued operator for an Allen-Cahn-Gurtin equation Pages : 5347 - 5377 Michel Pierre and Morgan Pierre 31. Singular limits for the two-phase Stefan problem Pages : 5379 - 5405 Jan Pruss, Jurgen Saal and Gieri Simonett 32. On the manifold of closed hypersurfaces in Rn Pages : 5407 - 5428 Jan Pruss and Gieri Simonett 33. Integration with vector valued measures Pages : 5429 - 5440 M. M. Rao 34. Estimating eigenvalues of an anisotropic thermal tensor from transient thermal probe measurements Pages : 5441 - 5455 Steve Rosencrans, Xuefeng Wang and Shan Zhao 35. Hardy type inequalities and hidden energies Pages : 5457 - 5491 Juan Luis Vazquez and Nikolaos B. Zographopoulos 36. Semi linear parabolic equations with nonlinear general Wentzell boundary conditions Pages : 5493 - 5506 Mahamadi Warma 37. Positive solutions of nonlinear equations via comparison with linear operators Pages : 5507 - 5519 Jeffrey R. L. Webb 38. An example of large global smooth solution of 3 dimensional Navier-Stokes equations without pressure Pages : 5521 - 5523 Qi S. Zhang 39. Weighted pseudo almost automorphic mild solutions to semilinear integral equations with Sp-weighted pseudo almost automorphic coefficients Pages : 5525 - 5537 Rui Zhang, Yong-Kui Chang and G. M. N'Guerekata ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series S 6:6 From: Liwei Ning Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 15:08:47 -0500 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series S (DCDS-S) Volume: 6, Number: 6 December 2013 http://www.aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=597 1. Preface Pages : i - i Alain Miranville 2. Multigrid methods for some quasi-variational inequalities Pages : 1457 - 1471 Lori Badea 3. On the Cosserat model for thin rods made of thermoelastic materials with voids Pages : 1473 - 1485 Mircea Birsan and Holm Altenbach 4. On damping rates of dissipative KdV equations Pages : 1487 - 1506 Jean-Paul Chehab and Georges Sadaka 5. Approximation results and subspace correction algorithms for implicit variational inequalities Pages : 1507 - 1524 Lori Badea and Marius Cocou 6. Structure of the space of 2D elasticity tensors Pages : 1525 - 1537 Gery de Saxce and Claude Vallee 7. On the thermal stresses in anisotropic porous cylinders Pages : 1539 - 1550 Emilian Bulgariu and Ionel-Dumitrel Ghiba 8. New results on the problem of the stabilization of equilibria for models of electrohydraulic servoactuators Pages : 1551 - 1567 Silvia Balea, Andrei Halanay and Ioan Ursu 9. Modeling a hard, thin curvilinear interface Pages : 1569 - 1586 Frederic Lebon and Raffaella Rizzoni 10. Dual formulation of a viscoplastic contact problem with unilateral constraint Pages : 1587 - 1598 Andaluzia Matei and Mircea Sofonea 11. Prolegomena to studies on dynamic materials and their space-time homogenization Pages : 1599 - 1608 Gerard A. Maugin and Martine Rousseau 12. A velocity-based time-stepping scheme for multibody dynamics with unilateral constraints Pages : 1609 - 1619 Laetitia Paoli 13. Non-local elasto-viscoplastic models with dislocations and non-Schmid effect Pages : 1621 - 1639 Sanda Cleja-Tigoiu and Raisa Pascan 14. Modelling of implicit standard materials. Application to linear coaxial non-associated constitutive laws Pages : 1641 - 1649 Claude Vallee, Camelia Lerintiu, Danielle Fortune, Kossi Atchonouglo and Jamal Chaoufi ------ Subject: Contents, Journal of Modern Dynamics 7:1 From: Liwei Ning Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 15:29:29 -0500 Journal of Modern Dynamics (JMD) Volume: 7, Number: 1 March 2013 http://aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListJMDnew.jsp?pubID=604 1. Divergent trajectories in the periodic wind-tree model Pages : 1 - 29 Vincent Delecroix 2. Growth of periodic orbits and generalized diagonals for typical triangular billiards Pages : 31 - 44 Dmitri Scheglov 3. On bounded cocycles of isometries over minimal dynamics Pages : 45 - 74 Daniel Coronel, Andres Navas and Mario Ponce 4. The Cayley-Oguiso automorphism of positive entropy on a K3 surface Pages : 75 - 97 Dino Festi, Alice Garbagnati, Bert Van Geemen and Ronald Van Luijk 5. Topological characterization of canonical Thurston obstructions Pages : 99 - 117 Nikita Selinger 6. Remarks on quantum ergodicity Pages : 119 - 133 Gabriel Riviere 7. Strata of abelian differentials and the Teichmuller dynamics Pages : 135 - 152 Dawei Chen ------ Subject: Contents, Kinetic and Related Models 6:3 From: Liwei Ning Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 10:35:14 -0500 Kinetic and Related Models (KRM) Volume: 6, Number: 3 September 2013 http://www.aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=603 1. On the dynamics of social conflicts: Looking for the black swan Pages : 459 - 479 Nicola Bellomo, Miguel A. Herrero and Andrea Tosin 2. Global existence and large time behavior of solutions to the electric-magnetohydrodynamic equations Pages : 481 - 503 Dongfen Bian and Boling Guo 3. Semi-classical models for the Schrodinger equation with periodic potentials and band crossings Pages : 505 - 532 Lihui Chai, Shi Jin and Qin Li 4. On a regularization of the magnetic gas dynamics system of equations Pages : 533 - 543 Bernard Ducomet and Alexander Zlotnik 5. Logarithmically improved regularity criteria for the generalized Navier-Stokes and related equations Pages : 545 - 556 Jishan Fan, Yasuhide Fukumoto and Yong Zhou 6. Perturbed, entropy-based closure for radiative transfer Pages : 557 - 587 Martin Frank, Cory D. Hauck and Edgar Olbrant 7. On the uniqueness for coagulation and multiple fragmentation equation Pages : 589 - 599 Ankik Kumar Giri 8. Large time behavior of the solution to the Landau Equation with specular reflective boundary condition Pages : 601 - 623 Cong He and Hongjun Yu 9. Phase space analysis and functional calculus for the linearized Landau and Boltzmann operators Pages : 625 - 648 Nicolas Lerner, Yoshinori Morimoto, Karel Pravda-Starov and Chao-Jiang Xu 10. One-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations with large density oscillation Pages : 649 - 670 Tao Wang, Huijiang Zhao and Qingyang Zou ------ Subject: Contents, Networks and Heterogeneous Media 8:2 From: Liwei Ning Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 10:56:17 -0500 Networks and Heterogeneous Media (NHM) Volume: 8, Number: 2 June 2013 http://www.aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=602 1. General constrained conservation laws. Application to pedestrian flow modeling Pages : 433 - 463 Christophe Chalons, Paola Goatin and Nicolas Seguin 2. Weighted energy method and long wave short wave decomposition on the linearized compressible Navier-Stokes equation Pages : 465 - 479 Sun-Ho Choi 3. Domain patterns and hysteresis in phase-transforming solids: Analysis and numerical simulations of a sharp interface dissipative model via phase-field approximation Pages : 481 - 499 Antonio DeSimone and Martin Kruzik 4. Gamma-expansion for a 1D confined Lennard-Jones model with point defect Pages : 501 - 527 Thomas Hudson 5. The stationary behaviour of fluid limits of reversible processes is concentrated on stationary points Pages : 529 - 540 Jean-Yves Le Boudec 6. Homogenization of hexagonal lattices Pages : 541 - 572 Herve Le Dret and Annie Raoult 7. Asymptotics of an optimal compliance-network problem Pages : 573 - 589 Al-hassem Nayam 8. On the ramified optimal allocation problem Pages : 591 - 624 Qinglan Xia and Shaofeng Xu 9. Errata corrige Pages : 625 - 625 Alberto Bressan ------ Subject: Contents, Nonlinearity 26:6 From: Anna-Ulla Gardiner Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 12:22:19 +0100 NONLINEARITY Volume 26, Issue 6, June 2013 Individual articles are free for 30 days following their publication on the web. This issue is available at: URL: http://iopscience.iop.org/0951-7715/26/6. Pages: 1529-1824 PAPERS 1529 Travelling water waves with compactly supported vorticity Jalal Shatah, Samuel Walsh and Chongchun Zeng 1565 The Lie--Poisson structure of the reduced {\em n}-body problem Holger R Dullin 1581 An extension of Glimm's method to the gas dynamical model of transonic flows Ying-Chin Su, John M Hong and Shih-Wei Chou 1599 An averaging theorem for a perturbed KdV equation Huang Guan 1623 The slow recurrence and stochastic stability of unimodal interval maps with wild attractors Simin Li and Qihan Wang 1639 Bubble extinction in Hele-Shaw flow with surface tension and kinetic undercooling regularization Michael C Dallaston and Scott W McCue 1667 Spectral maximum entropy hydrodynamics of fermionic radiation: a three-moment system for one-dimensional flows Zbigniew Banach and Wieslaw Larecki 1703 Singularities and non-hyperbolic manifolds do not coincide N\'andor Sim\'anyi 1719 Equilibrium measures for the H\'enon map at the first bifurcation Samuel Senti and Hiroki Takahasi 1743 Limit theorems for random walks on a strip in subdiffusive regimes D Dolgopyat and I Goldsheid 1783 On the 2D compressible Navier--Stokes system with density-dependent viscosities Bernard Ducomet and \v S\'arka Ne\v casov\'a 1799 Joint distribution of the first and second eigenvalues at the soft edge of unitary ensembles N S Witte, F Bornemann and P J Forrester 1823 Erratum: Bifurcations from one-parameter families of symmetric periodic orbits in reversible systems Kazuyuki Yagasaki