Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 13, Number 21
November 15, 2013
Editor:
Angel Jorba
Topics:
Workshop, Coupled Processes in Bio/Nano Systems
Australia & New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics conference
Fourth European Seminar on Computing
Postdoc/PhD Positions, Nottingham Trent Univ, UK
Faculty Position, Applied Mathematics, NJIT
Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A 34:5
Contents, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 11:2
Contents, Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization 10:2
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Subject: Workshop, Coupled Processes in Bio/Nano Systems
From: jcsmd-editorials <jcsmd-editorials@wlu.ca>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 06:21:47 -0500
The 2014 WCCM Workshop/Minisymposium on "Computational Modeling of
Multiphysics/Multiscale Coupled Processes in Biological and
Nanotechnological Systems" will be held in Barcelona, July 20-25,
2014. This event is part of the the 11th World Congress on
Computational Mechanics (WCCM2014). Please submit your one-page
abstract before November 29, 2013. Details are given at
http://www.m2netlab.wlu.ca/news-events/workshop2014-WCCM.html
Organizers:
Giovanna Guidoboni (USA)
Roderick Melnik (Canada)
Riccardo Sacco (Italy)
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Subject: Australia & New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics conference
From: Steve Taylor s.taylor@auckland.ac.nz
Date: November 14, 2013
Millennium Hotel, Rotorua, New Zealand, 2nd-6th February 2014
Registration and information about the conference:
http://anziam2014.auckland.ac.nz.
Early bird registration is available until 15th December 2013.
This annual Australia and New Zealand Industrial and Applied
Mathematics conference is an established gathering of applied
mathematicians, scientists and engineers, which will take place in
Rotorua, New Zealand in 2014. Rotorua's lakes, geothermal activity,
forests and adventure activities make it an attractive location for a
conference. Just a 2.5 hour drive from Auckland, and with it's own
airport, Rotorua is easily accessible.
Invited Speakers: Alison Etheridge (Oxford): Modelling evolution of
different genetic types in spatially structured populations; Lisa
Fauci (Tulane): Modeling the bio-fluid dynamics of reproduction:
successes and challenges; Douglas Heggie (Edinburgh): Mathematics,
Astronomy and Physics - a Three-Body Problem; Shane Henderson
(Cornell): Real-Time Control of Ambulance Fleets through Statistics,
Simulation and Optimization; Shaun Hendy (Victoria University of
Wellington, Tuck Medalist) Slippery issues in micro and nanoscale
flows; Bernd Krauskopf (Auckland): Discovering the geometry of chaos;
Geoff Mercer (ANU, Michell Medalist) Disease modelling and its impact
on policy decisions; Terry O'Kane (CSIRO, Tuck Medalist): The
statistical dynamics of geophysical flows with application to ensemble
prediction and data assimilation.
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Subject: Fourth European Seminar on Computing
From: Pavel Solin pavel@nclab.com
Date: November 17, 2013
This is a friendly reminder that the deadline for submitting abstracts
and minisymposia proposals for the fourth European Seminar on
Computing (ESCO 2014) is December 15, 2013.
Conference web page: http://esco2014.femhub.com/.
Proceedings of ESCO 2014 will appear as a special issue of
Appl. Math. Comput. (impact factor 1.349).
Thematic areas: Theoretical results as well as applications are
welcome. Application areas include, but are not limited to:
Computational electromagnetics, Civil engineering, Nuclear
engineering, Mechanical engineering, Nonlinear dynamics, Fluid
dynamics, Climate and weather modeling, Computational ecology, Wave
propagation, Acoustics, Geophysics, Geomechanics and rock mechanics,
Hydrology, Subsurface modeling, Biomechanics, Bioinformatics,
Computational chemistry, Stochastic differential equations,
Uncertainty quantification, Computational geometry, and others.
Confirmed keynote speakers: Oszkar Biro (IGTE, Graz, Austria);
Fr??d??ric Dufour (Ecole Centrale Nantes, CNRS, France); Herbert
Edelsbrunner (I. of Science and Technology, Vienna, Austria);
Jean-Fr??d??ric Gerbeau (INRIA, Paris-Rocquencourt, France); Ulrich R??de
(University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany)
Venue: The meeting takes place in the beautiful historic city of
Pilsen whose origins date back to the 13th century. Pilsen's rich
history is summarized on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plzen
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Subject: Postdoc/PhD Positions, Nottingham Trent Univ, UK
From: David Chappell david.chappell@ntu.ac.uk
Date: November 14, 2013
A 20 month EU funded Marie Curie fellow position on high frequency
wave modelling with application to vehicle noise and vibration is
available for a March/ early April 2014 start. Salary is ??55,233
p.a. plus a market rate supplement between ??5,254 to ??16,885. For
more details and to apply visit:
https://vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/default.asp?Section=Vacancy&VacID=001926
A fully funded PhD position on boundary integral modelling of
interfaces driven by fluid flow is being advertised under the Vice
Chancellor's scholarship scheme. For more details and to apply visit:
http://www.ntu.ac.uk/PSS/School%20of%20Science%20and%20Technology/Publications/150248.pdf
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Subject: Faculty Position, Applied Mathematics, NJIT
From: Peter G. Petropoulos peterp@njit.edu
Date: November 08, 2013
The Department of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) at the New Jersey
Institute of Technology seeks candidates to fill a
tenure-track/tenured position at the Assistant/Associate/Full
Professor level in the general area of Applied Mathematics. The
Department is particularly interested in candidates whose research
interests are consistent with the existing research strengths in
scientific computing/numerical analysis, modeling/asymptotic analysis,
PDE's and dynamical systems, with focused research groups in the
fields of fluid mechanics, mathematical biology and wave propagation.
DMS has experienced tremendous growth in research over the past two
decades, and is now recognized as a leading national program in
applied mathematics. The department offers BS, MS & PhD degrees, with
PhD program tracks in Applied Mathematics as well as in Applied
Probability & Statistics. For more information about DMS faculty and
programs, visit http://math.njit.edu.
Candidates should have a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics or related
fields and postdoctoral experience with strong research and teaching
potential for consideration at the Assistant Professor level, and an
appropriate record of accomplishment in classroom teaching, mentoring
doctoral students and research publication and funding, at the
Associate or Full Professor level. At the university's discretion,
the education and experience prerequisites may be excepted where the
candidate can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the university, an
equivalent combination of education and experience specifically
preparing the candidate for success in the position.
Please visit https://njit.jobs, posting number 0601798, to apply.
Submit a cover letter, resume/CV, research and teaching statements,
and a summary of teaching evaluations (particularly for positions at
the Associate/Full Professor level). Review of applications will begin
on November 15, 2013 and will continue until the position is filled.
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Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A 34:5
From: Liwei Ning <editorial@aimsciences.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 14:54:15 -0600
Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A (DCDS-A)
Volume: 34 Number: 5 May 2014
http://aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=636
1. Reaction-diffusion-advection models for the effects and evolution
of dispersal Pages : 1701 - 1745
Chris Cosner
2. Elliptic problems with nonlinear terms depending on the gradient
and singular on the boundary: Interaction with a Hardy-Leray potential
Pages : 1747 - 1774
Boumediene Abdellaoui, Daniela Giachetti, Ireneo Peral and
Magdalena Walias
3. Bistable travelling waves for nonlocal reaction diffusion equations
Pages : 1775 - 1791
Matthieu Alfaro, Jerome Coville and Gael Raoul
4. Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy via separation properties of
order-generated s-algebras Pages : 1793 - 1809
Alexandra Antoniouk, Karsten Keller and Sergiy Maksymenko
5. When are the invariant submanifolds of symplectic dynamics
Lagrangian? Pages : 1811 - 1827
Marie-Claude Arnaud
6. On a functional satisfying a weak Palais-Smale condition
Pages : 1829 - 1840
Antonio Azzollini
7. Lyapunov spectrum for geodesic flows of rank 1 surfaces
Pages : 1841 - 1872
Keith Burns and Katrin Gelfert
8. A note on integrable mechanical systems on surfaces
Pages : 1873 - 1878
Leo T. Butler
9. The properties of positive solutions to an integral system
involving Wolff potential Pages : 1879 - 1904
Huan Chen and Zhongxue Lu
10. Dynamics of Ginzburg-Landau and Gross-Pitaevskii vortices on
manifolds Pages : 1905 - 1931
Ko-Shin Chen and Peter Sternberg
11. Period 3 and chaos for unimodal maps Pages : 1933 - 1949
Kaijen Cheng, Kenneth Palmer and Yuh-Jenn Wu
12. An extended discrete Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality
Pages : 1951 - 1959
Ze Cheng and Congming Li
13. Multi-existence of multi-solitons for the supercritical nonlinear
Schrodinger equation in one dimension Pages : 1961 - 1993
Vianney Combet
14. Convergence analysis of the vortex blob method for the b-equation
Pages : 1995 - 2011
Yong Duan and Jian-Guo Liu
15. Analytic skew-products of quadratic polynomials over
Misiurewicz-Thurston maps Pages : 2013 - 2036
Rui Gao and Weixiao Shen
16. Dirichlet (p,q)-equations at resonance Pages : 2037 - 2060
Leszek Gasinski and Nikolaos S. Papageorgiou
17. The Fourier restriction norm method for the Zakharov-Kuznetsov
equation Pages : 2061 - 2068
Axel Grunrock and Sebastian Herr
18. A fast blow-up solution and degenerate pinching arising in an
anisotropic crystalline motion Pages : 2069 - 2090
Tetsuya Ishiwata and Shigetoshi Yazaki
19. On Hamiltonian flows whose orbits are straight lines
Pages : 2091 - 2104
Hans Koch and Hector E. Lomeli
20. On approximation of an optimal boundary control problem for linear
elliptic equation with unbounded coefficients Pages : 2105 - 2133
Peter I. Kogut
21. On the Stokes problem in exterior domains: The maximum modulus
theorem Pages : 2135 - 2171
Paolo Maremonti
22. Symbolic dynamics for the geodesic flow on two-dimensional
hyperbolic good orbifolds Pages : 2173 - 2241
Anke D. Pohl
23. Asymptotic behavior of Navier-Stokes-Korteweg with friction in R^3
Pages : 2243 - 2259
Zhong Tan, Xu Zhang and Huaqiao Wang
24. Scattering theory for the wave equation of a Hartree type in three
space dimensions Pages : 2261 - 2281
Kimitoshi Tsutaya
25. Weighted Green functions of polynomial skew products on C^2
Pages : 2283 - 2305
Kohei Ueno
26. Almost every interval translation map of three intervals is finite
type Pages : 2307 - 2314
Denis Volk
27. Dimension estimates for arbitrary subsets of limit sets of a
Markov construction and related multifractal analysis
Pages : 2315 - 2332
Juan Wang, Xiaodan Zhang and Yun Zhao
28. Solutions with clustered bubbles and a boundary layer of an
elliptic problem Pages : 2333 - 2357
Liping Wang and Chunyi Zhao
29. Vortex structures for Klein-Gordon equation with Ginzburg-Landau
nonlinearity Pages : 2359 - 2388
Jun Yang
30. On the well-posedness of Maxwell-Chern-Simons-Higgs system in the
Lorenz gauge Pages : 2389 - 2403
Jianjun Yuan
31. Wave speed analysis of traveling wave fronts in delayed
synaptically coupled neuronal networks Pages : 2405 - 2450
Linghai Zhang
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Subject: Contents, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 11:2
From: Liwei Ning <editorial@aimsciences.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 14:59:07 -0600
Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering (MBE)
Volume: 11, Number: 2 April 2014
http://aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=639
1. Preface for the special issue of Mathematical Biosciences and
Engineering, BIOCOMP 2012 Pages : i - ii
Aniello Buonocore, Antonio Di Crescenzo and Alan Hastings
2. A non-autonomous stochastic predator-prey model Pages : 167 - 188
Aniello Buonocore, Luigia Caputo, Enrica Pirozzi and
Amelia G. Nobile
3. Gauss-diffusion processes for modeling the dynamics of a couple of
interacting neurons Pages : 189 - 201
Aniello Buonocore, Luigia Caputo, Enrica Pirozzi and
Maria Francesca Carfora
4. FitzHugh-Nagumo equations with generalized diffusive coupling
Pages : 203 - 215
Anna Cattani
5. On a spike train probability model with interacting neural units
Pages : 217 - 231
Antonio Di Crescenzo, Maria Longobardi and Barbara Martinucci
6. Synaptic energy drives the information processing mechanisms in
spiking neural networks Pages : 233 - 256
Karim El Laithy and Martin Bogdan
7. Stability and optimal control for some classes of tritrophic
systems Pages : 257 - 283
Luca Galbusera, Sara Pasquali and Gianni Gilioli
8. On the return process with refractoriness for a non-homogeneous
Ornstein-Uhlenbeck neuronal model Pages : 285 - 302
Virginia Giorno and Serena Spina
9. Local versus nonlocal barycentric interactions in 1D agent dynamics
Pages : 303 - 315
Max-Olivier Hongler, Roger Filliger and Olivier Gallay
10. Modeling some properties of circadian rhythms Pages : 317 - 330
Miguel Lara-Aparicio, Carolina Barriga-Montoya, Pablo
Padilla-Longoria and Beatriz Fuentes-Pardo
11. Designing neural networks for modeling biological data: A
statistical perspective Pages : 331 - 342
Michele La Rocca and Cira Perna
12. Distributed, layered and reliable computing nets to represent
neuronal receptive fields Pages : 343 - 361
Arminda Moreno-Diaz, Gabriel de Blasio and Moreno-Diaz Jr.
13. Demographic modeling of transient amplifying cell population
growth Pages : 363 - 384
Shinji Nakaoka and Hisashi Inaba
14. Cooperative behavior in a jump diffusion model for a simple
network of spiking neurons Pages : 385 - 401
Roberta Sirovich, Laura Sacerdote and Alessandro E. P. Villa
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Subject: Contents, Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization 10:2
From: Liwei Ning <editorial@aimsciences.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 15:02:04 -0600
Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization (JIMO)
Volume: 10, Number: 2 April 2014
http://aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=638
1. Fractional order optimal control problems with free terminal time
Pages : 363 - 381
Shakoor Pooseh, Ricardo Almeida and Delfim F. M. Torres
2. Optimizing system-on-chip verifications with multi-objective
genetic evolutionary algorithms Pages : 383 - 396
Adriel Cheng and Cheng-Chew Lim
3. A ladder method for linear semi-infinite programming Pages : 397 - 412
Yanqun Liu and Ming-Fang Ding
4. Theory and applications of optimal control problems with multiple
time-delays Pages : 413 - 441
Laurenz Gollmann and Helmut Maurer
5. Computation of bang-bang and singular controls in collision
avoidance Pages : 443 - 460
Helmut Maurer, Tanya Tarnopolskaya and Neale Fulton
6. A new parallel splitting descent method for structured variational
inequalities Pages : 461 - 476
Kai Wang, Lingling Xu and Deren Han
7. Designing rendezvous missions with mini-moons using geometric
optimal control Pages : 477 - 501
Monique Chyba, Geoff Patterson, Gautier Picot, Mikael Granvik,
Robert Jedicke and Jeremie Vaubaillon
8. On an optimal control problem in laser cutting with mixed
finite/infinite-dimensional constraints Pages : 503 - 519
Georg Vossen and Torsten Hermanns
9. Inexact restoration and adaptive mesh refinement for optimal
control Pages : 521 - 542
Nahid Banihashemi and C. Yal\c{c}in Kaya
10. Doubly nonnegative relaxation method for solving multiple
objective quadratic programming problems Pages : 543 - 556
Yanqin Bai and Chuanhao Guo
11. Manifold relaxations for integer programming Pages : 557 - 566
Zhiguo Feng and Ka-Fai Cedric Yiu
12. Multimodal image registration by elastic matching of edge sketches
via optimal control Pages : 567 - 590
Angel Angelov and Marcus Wagner
13. A time-dependent scheduling problem to minimize the sum of the
total weighted tardiness among two agents Pages : 591 - 611
Wen-Hung Wu, Yunqiang Yin, Wen-Hsiang Wu, Chin-Chia Wu and Peng-Hsiang Hsu
14. The inverse parallel machine scheduling problem with minimum total
completion time Pages : 613 - 620
Hongtruong Pham and Xiwen Lu
15. LS-SVM approximate solution for affine nonlinear systems with
partially unknown functions Pages : 621 - 636
Guoshan Zhang, Shiwei Wang, Yiming Wang and Wanquan Liu
16. Substitution secant/finite difference method to large sparse
minimax problems Pages : 637 - 663
Junxiang Li, Yan Gao, Tao Dai, Chunming Ye, Qiang Su and Jiazhen Huo