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 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, Coupled Processes in Bio/Nano Systems From: jcsmd-editorials 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) ------ 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. ------ 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 ------ 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 ------ 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. ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A 34:5 From: Liwei Ning 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 ------ Subject: Contents, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 11:2 From: Liwei Ning 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 ------ Subject: Contents, Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization 10:2 From: Liwei Ning 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