Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 13, Number 17 September 15, 2013 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: Workshop, An Integral Approach to Electromagnetic Scattering Workshop, Model Reduction of Complex Dynamical Systems Householder Fellowship, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Marie Curie Research Fellow Position, High Frequency Wave Modelling Tenured Position, Applied Mathematics, Brazil Assistant Professor Position, Univ of Colorado, Boulder Contents, Inverse Problems and Imaging 7:3 Contents, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 10:5/6 Contents, Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization 9:4 Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 260, 261 and 262 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: Workshop, An Integral Approach to Electromagnetic Scattering From: Duncan van der Heul D.R.vanderHeul@tudelft.nl Date: September 09, 2013 On November 12 2013, the Delft Institute for Applied Mathematics (DIAM), the George Green Institute for Electromagnetics Research (GMR) and the National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) will organize a workshop entitled: INT13 An Integral Approach to Electromagnetic Scattering: A workshop on recent developments in theory and applications. The purpose of this workshop is three-fold. First of all it will provide a forum for researchers in the field of time and frequency domain integral equations to exchange new ideas and start new cooperations, initiated by a number of invited talks by leading experts. Furthermore, the workshop provides an opportunity to PhD students to share the results of their research with more experienced researchers, get feedback and extend their network. Finally, we have planned a common exercise prior to the workshop, in which all attendees of the workshop can participate. In this common exercise four challenging test cases for time-domain integral equation solvers are presented. We will collect the results in advance and present and discuss them on the workshop. This will help understand the benefits and shortcomings of the different approaches to formulating time-domain scattering modeling through integral equations in use today. All information on the event can be found on the website. If you would like to attend, contribute or participate in the common exercise, do not hesitate to contact the organisers. Date: Tuesday November 12, 2013 Venue: National Aerospace Laboratory NLR, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Organisers: Kristof Cools, Harmen van der Ven & Duncan van der Heul Keynote speaker: Prof. Eric Michielssen, University of Michigan Website: http://ta.twi.tudelft.nl/nw/users/duncan/INT13/index.html Contact: integralscattering@gmail.com ------ Subject: Workshop, Model Reduction of Complex Dynamical Systems From: Martin Hess hessm@mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de Date: September 12, 2013 This workshop aims to bring together researchers and users of model order reduction techniques with special emphasis on applications in micro- and nanoelectronics. Contributions from other areas such as computational electromagnetics, mechanical systems, computational fluid dynamics and related disciplines are welcome. Confirmed Speakers: Karl Meerbergen, KU Leuven Jan S. Hesthaven, Brown University Romanus Dyczij-Edlinger, Saarland University Deadlines for contributed talks: October 1st, 2013: Submission of abstracts via WWW. November 1st, 2013: Registration via WWW. The Collection of Abstracts will be made available on the Web end of October. Furthermore a booklet will be handed out at the beginning of the workshop. Call for Posters: Participants are invited to present posters at the conference. Preliminary time schedule: Wednesday, 11th December - starts at 2pm with the opening. Friday, 13th December - ends at 2pm (including lunch). More information and registration at: http://www.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de/mpcsc/events/modred/2013/ ------ Subject: Householder Fellowship, Oak Ridge National Laboratory From: Clayton Webster webstercg@ornl.gov Date: September 02, 2013 The Computer Science and Mathematics (CSM) Division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) invites outstanding candidates to apply for the Alston S. Householder Fellowship in mathematics and scientific computing. This prestigious Fellowship offers an excellent opportunity to conduct exceptional and innovative research in mathematics, statistics and scientific computing, for applications of national priority, utilizing the world???s most powerful extreme scale computing platforms, including TITAN (http://www.olcf.ornl.gov/titan/). The Fellowship honors Dr. Alston S. Householder, founding director of the Mathematics Division (now CSM Division) at ORNL and recognizes his seminal research contributions to the fields of numerical analysis and scientific computing. Funding for the Householder Fellowship comes from the Applied Mathematics Group (AMG), which is supported by the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) of the U.S. Department of Energy (http://www.science.doe.gov/ascr). Additional information about the AMG at ORNL can be found at http://www.csm.ornl.gov/newsite/comp_math.html. Each Householder Fellowship appointment is for one year with the option to renew for a second year. The fellowship offers collaborative research opportunities in active programs at ORNL, a highly competitive salary, moving expenses, and a generous professional travel allowance. The selected individual will be mentored by a senior scientist within the AMG, but are encouraged to pursue their own research agenda, through access to the most advanced computer architectures, and opportunities to facilitate technology transfer from the laboratory research environment to industry and academia through training of new computational scientists. The minimum required education is a Ph.D. in applied mathematics, statistics or computational science, but no more than four years beyond completion can be considered. Applicants should also have a proven academic record of high quality research with clear potential to perform cutting edge, innovative research in applied mathematics, statistics and/or computational science.The successful candidate will have a strong background and expertise in more than one area of particular relevance to the AMG at ORNL. Principal research areas include: Multi-scale methods, including atomistic-to-continuum coupling; Computational kinetic theory; Computational fluid dynamics and turbulence; High-dimensional approximation theory; Large-scale iterative methods for linear and eigenvalue problems; Numerical methods for stochastic (partial) differential equations; Uncertainty quantification; Probability theory; Statistical sampling and design of experiments; Combinatorial optimization and graph theory; Computational geometry and mesh generation; Sparse methods for data analytics; High-order continuous and discontinuous methods for PDEs; Multi-resolution analysis. Qualified applicants may apply online at 1.usa.gov/175lbQS. Please contact Clayton Webster (webstercg@ornl.gov) regarding any technical questions. The application process will remain open from September 2, 2013 until November 31, 2013. You must submit your application during this time to be considered. This appointment is offered through Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This appointment is open to all qualified U.S. and non-U.S. citizens without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, or status as a Vietnam-era veteran or disabled veteran. U.S. citizenship and a security clearance are NOT required for this position. ------ Subject: Marie Curie Research Fellow Position, High Frequency Wave Modelling From: David Chappell david.chappell@ntu.ac.uk Date: August 28, 2013 Salary: GBP55,233 p.a. plus a supplement of between GBP5,254 and GBP16,885. This is an EU funded research position on the Industry and Academia Partnerships and Pathways project "Mid-to-high frequency modelling of vehicle noise and vibration" (MHiVec). MHiVec is a collaborative project between Nottingham Trent University, the University of Nottingham, the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research at the University of Southampton, InuTech GmbH, CDH AG, and Jaguar Land Rover. Candidates must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc) in the UK for more than 12 months in the three years immediately prior to their recruitment. The post is offered on a fixed-term contract for 20 months. The researcher will work on the development of new integral equation methods for modelling vehicle body vibrations at high frequencies, including the modelling of uncertain structures. Candidates will be expected to have a PhD in a relevant discipline (mechanical engineering, mathematics or physics), along with numerical programming skills in at least one of MATLAB or C++, a good command of English and an enthusiasm for working in an international and inter-disciplinary research environment. Experience in the theory and implementation of boundary integral methods is highly favourable. If you have any specific queries in relation to this position, please contact David Chappell, Lecturer in Applied Mathematics on +44 (0)115 848 8426 or by email david.chappell@ntu.ac.uk Apply online at https://vacancies.ntu.ac.uk Closing date: 5 pm on 24 September 2013 ------ Subject: Tenured Position, Applied Mathematics, Brazil From: Jose Alberto Cuminato jacumina@icmc.usp.br Date: September 10, 2013 The Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics (SME) of the Institute of Mathematical and Computer Sciences of the University of Sao Paulo (ICMC-USP) at Sao Carlos, is making a public call for a full-time tenured professor/researcher position, level of Assistant Professor (Doctor). Applicants must hold a PhD in the fields of Applied Mathematics, Mathematics or similar, must be well qualified and have a scientific research orientation. The official webpage for the call, in Portuguese, is http://www.icmc.usp.br/CMS/Arquivos/arquivos_enviados/ATAC_153_079%20_2013%20SME%20site.pdf where all the selection steps/exams are described in detail, as well as other points (current salary,...) Any question or information about the mechanism of the exams should be addressed to the head of the department by email (sme@icmc.usp.br ), specifying JOB OFFER on the message header. ------ Subject: Assistant Professor Position, Univ of Colorado, Boulder From: Bengt Fornberg fornberg@colorado.edu Date: August 22, 2013 The Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor to begin August 2014. The position is in the area of computational/ numerical mathematics and applications; however, exceptional candidates in all fields of Applied Mathematics may be considered. The candidate is expected to take an active role in undergraduate and graduate teaching, conduct an active externally funded research program, and advise graduate students. A Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Mathematics, or related discipline is required. Review of applications will begin October 1, 2013 and continue until finalists are identified. The Applied Mathematics Department has significant research efforts in computational mathematics, nonlinear mathematics including nonlinear dynamics and waves, mathematical biology, physical applied mathematics, probability and statistics. For more information see http://amath.colorado.edu/. The University of Colorado Boulder offers a rich research environment, with numerous interdisciplinary initiatives in the physical and life sciences. The University of Colorado is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a diverse workforce. We encourage applications from women, racial and ethnic minorities, individuals with disabilities and veterans. Alternative formats of this ad can be provided upon request for individuals with disabilities by contacting the ADA Coordinator at hr-ada@colorado.edu. See www.colorado.edu/ArtsSciences/Jobs/ for additional information. Special Instructions to applicants: Applicants are expected to attach the AMS standard cover sheet as Document 1 (see http://www.ams.org/employment/cover-template.doc). Four letters of recommendation will be required. At least one of the four letters should address the teaching skills of the candidate. ------ Subject: Contents, Inverse Problems and Imaging 7:3 From: Susan Cummins Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 16:26:58 -0500 Inverse Problems and Imaging (IPI) Volume: 7, Number: 3 August 2013 http://aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=621 1. Preface Pages : i - ii Raymond H. Chan, Thomas Y. Hou, Hong-Kai Zhao, Haomin Zhou and Jun Zou 2. An anisotropic perfectly matched layer method for Helmholtz scattering problems with discontinuous wave number Pages : 663 - 678 Zhiming Chen, Chao Liang and Xueshuang Xiang 3. Nonlinear stability of the implicit-explicit methods for the Allen-Cahn equation Pages : 679 - 695 Xinlong Feng, Huailing Song, Tao Tang and Jiang Yang 4. Non-Gaussian dynamics of a tumor growth system with immunization Pages : 697 - 716 Mengli Hao, Ting Gao, Jinqiao Duan and Wei Xu 5. Nonstationary iterated thresholding algorithms for image deblurring Pages : 717 - 736 Jie Huang, Marco Donatelli and Raymond H. Chan 6. A local mesh method for solving PDEs on point clouds Pages : 737 - 755 Rongjie Lai, Jiang Liang and Hong-Kai Zhao 7. A direct sampling method for inverse scattering using far-field data Pages : 757 - 775 Jingzhi Li and Jun Zou 8. Wavelet frame based color image demosaicing Pages : 777 - 794 Jingwei Liang, Jia Li, Zuowei Shen and Xiaoqun Zhang 9. Recent results on lower bounds of eigenvalue problems by nonconforming finite element methods Pages : 795 - 811 Qun Lin and Hehu Xie 10. How to explore the patch space Pages : 813 - 838 Jose-Luis Lisani, Antoni Buades and Jean-Michel Morel 11. Video stabilization of atmospheric turbulence distortion Pages : 839 - 861 Yifei Lou, Sung Ha Kang, Stefano Soatto and Andrea L. Bertozzi 12. A conformal approach for surface inpainting Pages : 863 - 884 Lok Ming Lui, Chengfeng Wen and Xianfeng Gu 13. Multi-view foreground segmentation via fourth order tensor learning Pages : 885 - 906 Michael K. Ng, Chi-Pan Tam and Fan Wang 14. Statistical ranking using the l1-norm on graphs Pages : 907 - 926 Braxton Osting, Jerome Darbon and Stanley Osher 15. A texture model based on a concentration of measure Pages : 927 - 946 Hayden Schaeffer, John Garnett and Luminita A. Vese 16. 3D adaptive finite element method for a phase field model for the moving contact line problems Pages : 947 - 959 Yi Shi, Kai Bao and Xiao-Ping Wang 17. Three steps on an open road Pages : 961 - 966 Gilbert Strang 18. Energy conserving local discontinuous Galerkin methods for wave propagation problems Pages : 967 - 986 Yulong Xing, Ching-Shan Chou and Chi-Wang Shu 19. The single-grid multilevel method and its applications Pages : 987 - 1005 Jinchao Xu 20. General convergent expectation maximization (EM)-type algorithms for image reconstruction Pages : 1007 - 1029 Ming Yan, Alex A. T. Bui, Jason Cong and Luminita A. Vese 21. Fast total variation wavelet inpainting via approximated primal-dual hybrid gradient algorithm Pages : 1031 - 1050 Xiaojing Ye and Haomin Zhou 22. The Gaussian beam method for the wigner equation with discontinuous potentials Pages : 1051 - 1074 Dongsheng Yin, Min Tang and Shi Jin 23. A fast modified Newton's method for curvature based denoising of 1D signals Pages : 1075 - 1097 Andy M. Yip and Wei Zhu 24. Four color theorem and convex relaxation for image segmentation with any number of regions Pages : 1099 - 1113 Ruiliang Zhang, Xavier Bresson, Tony F. Chan and Xue-Cheng Tai ------ Subject: Contents, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 10:5/6 From: Susan Cummins Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 14:10:00 -0500 Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering (MBE) Volume: 10, Number: 5/6 October/December 2013 http://aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=619 1. From the guest editors Pages : i - xxiv Gerardo Chowell, Zhilan Feng and Baojun Song 2. Preface to Special Issue in Honor of Carlos Castillo-Chavez Pages : xx - xxvii Simon A. Levin 3. From Rockstar Researcher to Selfless Mentor: A Daughter's Perspective Pages : xxix - xxxvii Melissa Castillo-Garsow 4. Life history traits of Sirex Noctilio F. (Hymenoptera: Siricidae) can explain outbreaks independently of environmental factors Pages : 1265 - 1279 Juan Pablo Aparicio, Juan Carlos Corley and Jorge Eduardo Rabinovich 5. Influence of environmental factors on college alcohol drinking patterns Pages : 1281 - 1300 Ridouan Bani, Rasheed Hameed, Steve Szymanowski, Priscilla Greenwood, Christopher M. Kribs-Zaleta and Anuj Mubayi 6. Theoretical foundations for traditional and generalized sensitivity functions for nonlinear delay differential equations Pages : 1301 - 1333 H.Thomas Banks, Danielle Robbins and Karyn L. Sutton 7. Dynamics of an age-of-infection cholera model Pages : 1335 - 1349 Fred Brauer, Zhisheng Shuai and P. van den Driessche 8. The mathematical and theoretical biology institute - a model of mentorship through research Pages : 1351 - 1363 Erika T. Camacho, Christopher M. Kribs-Zaleta and Stephen Wirkus 9. Metering effects in population systems Pages : 1365 - 1379 Erika T. Camacho, Christopher M. Kribs-Zaleta and Stephen Wirkus 10. Prisoner's Dilemma on real social networks: Revisited Pages : 1381 - 1398 Sharon M. Cameron and Ariel Cintron-Arias 11. Bifurcation analysis of a discrete SIS model with bilinear incidence depending on new infection Pages : 1399 - 1417 Hui Cao, Yicang Zhou and Zhien Ma 12. Some recent developments on linear determinacy Pages : 1419 - 1436 Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Bingtuan Li and Haiyan Wang 13. The role of multiple modeling perspectives in students' learning of exponential growth Pages : 1437 - 1453 Carlos Castillo-Garsow 14. The basic reproduction number R0 and effectiveness of reactive interventions during dengue epidemics: The 2002 dengue outbreak in Easter Island, Chile Pages : 1455 - 1474 Gerardo Chowell, R. Fuentes, A. Olea, X. Aguilera, H. Nesse and J. M. Hyman 15. Mathematical models of contact patterns between age groups for predicting the spread of infectious diseases Pages : 1475 - 1497 Sara Y. Del Valle, J. M. Hyman and Nakul Chitnis 16. For Carlos Castillo-Chavez Pages : 1499 - 1499 Dean Evasius 17. Data and implication based comparison of two chronic myeloid leukemia models Pages : 1501 - 1518 R. A. Everett, Y. Zhao, K. B. Flores and Yang Kuang 18. Spatially heterogeneous invasion of toxic plant mediated by herbivory Pages : 1519 - 1538 Zhilan Feng, Wenzhang Huang and Donald L. DeAngelis 19. Superstar of the Sloan Minority Ph.D. Program Pages : 1539 - 1540 Ted Greenwood 20. Michaelis-Menten kinetics, the operator-repressor system, and least squares approaches Pages : 1541 - 1560 Karl Peter Hadeler 21. Mixed strategies and natural selection in resource allocation Pages : 1561 - 1586 Irina Kareva, Faina Berezovkaya and Georgy Karev 22. Sociological phenomena as multiple nonlinearities: MTBI's new metaphor for complex human interactions Pages : 1587 - 1607 Christopher M. Kribs-Zaleta 23. To Carlos on his sixtieth birthday: Greetings from your friends in Iowa Pages : 1609 - 1610 Philip C. Kutzko 24. Carlos Castillo-Chavez: A century ahead Pages : 1611 - 1613 James Schatz 25. Optimal strategies of social distancing and vaccination against seasonal influenza Pages : 1615 - 1634 Eunha Shim 26. Chemostats and epidemics: Competition for nutrients/hosts Pages: 1635 - 1650 Hal L. Smith and Horst R. Thieme 27. Different types of backward bifurcations due to density-dependent treatments Pages : 1651 - 1668 Baojun Song, Wen Du and Jie Lou 28. My reflections on the Blackwell-Tapia prize Pages : 1669 - 1672 Richard Tapia 29. Increasing survival time decreases the cost-effectiveness of using "test & treat" to eliminate HIV epidemics Pages : 1673 - 1686 Bradley G. Wagner, Brian J. Coburn and Sally Blower 30. Carlos is a Canadian Pages : 1687 - 1689 Jianhong Wu 31. Optimal isolation strategies of emerging infectious diseases with limited resources Pages : 1691 - 1701 Yinggao Zhou, Jianhong Wu and Min Wu ------ Subject: Contents, Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization 9:4 From: Liwei Ning Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 11:16:21 -0500 Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization (JIMO) Volume: 9 Number: 4 October 2013 http://www.aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=618 1. Augmented Lagrange primal-dual approach for generalized fractional programming problems Pages : 723 - 741 Jen-Yen Lin, Hui-Ju Chen and Ruey-Lin Sheu 2. Optimal investment-consumption problem with constraint Pages : 743 - 768 Jingzhen Liu, Ka-Fai Cedric Yiu and Kok Lay Teo 3. Pricing and replenishment strategy for a multi-market deteriorating product with time-varying and price-sensitive demand Pages : 769 - 787 Po-Chung Yang, Hui-Ming Wee, Shen-Lian Chung and Yong-Yan Huang 4. A smoothing-type algorithm for absolute value equations Pages : 789 - 798 Xiaoqin Jiang and Ying Zhang 5. Optimal capacity reservation policy on innovative product Pages : 799 - 825 Jianbin Li, Ruina Yang and Niu Yu 6. Reordering policy and coordination of a supply chain with a loss-averse retailer Pages : 827 - 853 Kebing Chen and Tiaojun Xiao 7. Two-warehouse inventory models for deteriorating products with ramp type demand rate Pages : 855 - 883 Konstantina Skouri and Ioannis Konstantaras 8. Reduction and dynamic approach for the multi-choice Shapley value Pages : 885 - 892 Yan-An Hwang and Yu-Hsien Liao 9. On the strong convergence of a modified Hestenes-Stiefel method for nonconvex optimization Pages : 893 - 899 Weijun Zhou and Youhua Zhou 10. Equilibrium joining probabilities in observable queues with general service and setup times Pages : 901 - 917 Feng Zhang, Jinting Wang and Bin Liu 11. A non-monotone retrospective trust-region method for unconstrained optimization Pages : 919 - 944 Jun Chen, Wenyu Sun and Zhenghao Yang 12. Integrated imperfect production inventory model under permissible delay in payments depending on the order quantity Pages : 945 - 965 Chui-Yu Chiu, Ming-Feng Yang, Chung-Jung Tang and Yi Lin 13. Channel coordination mechanism with retailers having fairness preference - An improved quantity discount mechanism Pages : 967 - 982 Chuan Ding, Kaihong Wang and Shaoyong Lai 14. On constraint qualifications: Motivation, design and inter-relations Pages : 983 - 1001 Ziteng Wang, Shu-Cherng Fang and Wenxun Xing ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 260, 261 and 262 From: ScienceDirect Message Center Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 15:26:32 -0400 * Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena Volume 260, Pages 1-200, 1 October 2013 Emergent Behaviour in Multi-particle Systems with Non-local Interactions Edited by Theodore Kolokolnikov, Andrea Bertozzi, Razvan Fetecau and Mark Lewis http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01672789/260 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) Emergent behaviour in multi-particle systems with non-local interactions Pages 1-4 Theodore Kolokolnikov, Jose A. Carrillo, Andrea Bertozzi, Razvan Fetecau, Mark Lewis 2) Nonlocal interactions by repulsive-attractive potentials: Radial ins/stability Original Research Article, Pages 5-25 D. Balague, J.A. Carrillo, T. Laurent, G. Raoul 3) Continuum models of cohesive stochastic swarms: The effect of motility on aggregation patterns Original Research Article, Pages 26-48 Barry D. Hughes, Klemens Fellner 4) Equilibria of biological aggregations with nonlocal repulsive-attractive interactions Original Research Article, Pages 49-64 R.C. Fetecau, Y. Huang 5) Singular patterns for an aggregation model with a confining potential Original Research Article, Pages 65-76 Theodore Kolokolnikov, Yanghong Huang, Mark Pavlovski 6) Blow-up dynamics for the aggregation equation with degenerate diffusion Original Research Article, Pages 77-89 Yao Yao, Andrea L. Bertozzi 7) Kinetic hierarchy and propagation of chaos in biological swarm models Original Research Article, Pages 90-111 E. Carlen, R. Chatelin, P. Degond, B. Wennberg 8) A new interaction potential for swarming models Original Research Article, Pages 112-126 J.A. Carrillo, S. Martin, V. Panferov 9) A numerical study of attraction/repulsion collective behavior models: 3D particle analyses and 1D kinetic simulations Original Research Article, Pages 127-144 Francesco Vecil, Pauline Lafitte, Jesus Rosado Linares 10) Individual based and mean-field modeling of direct aggregation Original Research Article, Pages 145-158 Martin Burger, Jan Hakovec, Marie-Therese Wolfram 11) On Lagrangian dynamics based modeling of swarm behavior Original Research Article, Pages 159-175 Veysel Gazi 12) Modeling selective local interactions with memory Original Research Article, Pages 176-190 Amanda Galante, Doron Levy 13) On the global well-posedness theory for a class of PDE models for criminal activity Original Research Article, Pages 191-200 N. Rodriguez * Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena Volume 261, Pages 1-124, 15 October 2013 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01672789/261 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) Editorial Board Pages IFC 2) Meso-scale obstructions to stability of 1D center manifolds for networks of coupled differential equations with symmetric Jacobian Original Research Article, Pages 1-7 J. Epperlein, A.L. Do, T. Gross, S. Siegmund 3) Metastable and chaotic transient rotating waves in a ring of unidirectionally coupled bistable Lorenz systems Original Research Article, Pages 8-18 Yo Horikawa 4) Isostables, isochrons, and Koopman spectrum for the action-angle representation of stable fixed point dynamics Original Research Article, Pages 19-30 A. Mauroy, I. Mezic, J. Moehlis 5) Kinematic and dynamic vortices in a thin film driven by an applied current and magnetic field Original Research Article, Pages 31-41 Lydia Peres Hari, Jacob Rubinstein, Peter Sternberg 6) Flocking dynamics and mean-field limit in the Cucker-Smale-type model with topological interactions Original Research Article, Pages 42-51 Jan Haskovec 7) Lienard-type models for the simulation of the action potential of cardiac nodal cells Original Research Article, Pages 52-61 P. Podziemski, J.J. Zebrowski 8) Computational stability of phase-tip splitting in the presence of small interfacial energy in a simple two-phase solid Original Research Article, Pages 62-69 Timothy J. Healey, Andras A. Sipos 9) Solving the density classification problem with a large diffusion and small amplification cellular automaton Original Research Article, Pages 70-80 Raimundo Brice\~no, Pablo Moisset de Espanes, Axel Osses, Ivan Rapaport 10) Periodic motions of fluid particles induced by a prescribed vortex path in a circular domain Original Research Article, Pages 81-84 Alberto Boscaggin, Pedro J. Torres 11) Approximate self-similar solutions to a nonlinear diffusion equation with time-fractional derivative Original Research Article, Pages 85-91 Lukasz Plociniczak, Hanna Okrasinska 12) Low-dimensional q-tori in FPU lattices: Dynamics and localization properties Original Research Article, Pages 92-113 H. Christodoulidi, C. Efthymiopoulos 13) Competition for synchronization in a phase oscillator system Original Research Article, Pages 114-124 Yakov Kazanovich, Oleksandr Burylko, Roman Borisyuk * Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena Volume 262, Pages 1-82, 1 November 2013 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01672789/262 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) Editorial Board Pages IFC 2) Spectral stability analysis for special solutions of second order in time PDEs: The higher dimensional case Original Research Article, Pages 1-13 Milena Stanislavova, Atanas Stefanov 3) Dynamics near a periodically-perturbed robust heteroclinic cycle Original Research Article, Pages 14-34 Tsung-Lung Tsai, Jonathan H.P. Dawes 4) Predictions of critical transitions with non-stationary reduced order models Original Research Article, Pages 35-47 Christian L.E. Franzke 5) Focusing singularity in a derivative nonlinear Schrodinger equation Original Research Article, Pages 48-58 Xiao Liu, Gideon Simpson, Catherine Sulem 6) Thresholds in three-dimensional restricted Euler-Poisson equations Original Research Article, Pages 59-70 Yongki Lee, Hailiang Liu 7) An approximate treatment of gravitational collapse Original Research Article, Pages 71-82 Yago Ascasibar, Rafael Granero-Belinchon, Jose Manuel Moreno