Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 13, Number 22 December 1, 2013 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: Conference, Mathematical Methods and Models in Biosciences Conference, Middle European Cooperation on Statistical Physics Summer school, Mathematical methods of biological evolution Workshop, Virus dynamics and evolution 7th Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference PhD Position, Complex Systems and Data Science Contents, Evolution Equations and Control Theory 2:4 Contents, Kinetic and Related Models 6:4 Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 266 Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 267 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: Conference, Mathematical Methods and Models in Biosciences From: "Roussel, Marc" Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 21:25:11 +0000 The annual international conference on Mathematical Methods and Models in Biosciences (BIOMATH) will take place from 22 June to 27 June 2014 at the campus of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia, Bulgaria. The conference is devoted to recent research in life sciences based on applications of mathematics as well as mathematics applied to or motivated by biological studies. It is a multidisciplinary meeting forum for researchers who develop and apply mathematical and computational tools to the study of phenomena in the broad fields of biology, ecology, medicine, biotechnology, bioengineering, environmental science, etc. The deadline for abstract submission is March 31, 2014. Further information is available from the conference web site: http://www.biomath.bg/2014 Organizing committee Chairs: Roumen Anguelov (University of Pretoria) and Svetoslav Markov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) Keynote speakers: - Andrey Karshikoff (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) - Pierre Auger (Centre IRD France-Nord) - Nakul Chitnis (Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute) - Vaclav Klika (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) - Natalia Komarova (University of California, Irvine) - Maia Martcheva (University of Florida) - Svetoslav Nikolov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) - Atanas Pashov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) - Cyril Piou (CIRAD) - Amy Radunskaya (Pomona College) - Jean M. Tchuenche (Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta) ------ Subject: Conference, Middle European Cooperation on Statistical Physics From: MECO39 Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 12:08:52 +0000 MECO39 -- FIRST CIRCULAR COVENTRY, ENGLAND April 8 - 10, 2014 http://meco39.complexity-coventry.org/ e-mail: meco39@coventry.ac.uk Dear Colleagues, We would like to announce the 39th annual conference of the Middle European Cooperation on Statistical Physics which will take place between the 8th and 10th of April, 2014 in Coventry, England. The conference addresses theoretical, as well as experimental, research in statistical and condensed-matter physics. The main subjects of the conference will be * strongly correlated systems * phase transitions and critical phenomena * soft matter and biophysics * disordered and glassy systems * networks and complex systems * non-equilibrium and quantum systems * interdisciplinary applications The scientific programme will consist of a number of invited lectures as well as contributed oral presentations and poster contributions. Details about registration, fees, abstract submission, accommodation, financial and visa support etc. will be announced in the 2nd circular. Please download the conference poster at http://meco39.complexity-coventry.org/poster.pdf and display it at an appropriate place at your organisation. INVITED SPEAKERS Confirmed invited lecturers include Sergei Dorogovtsev (St. Petersburg, Russia) Martin Evans (Edinburgh, UK) Helmut Katzgraber (Texas A&M, USA) Christian Maes (Leuven, Belgium) Anastasios Malakis (Athens, Greece) Victor Martin-Mayor (Madrid, Spain) Ihor Mryglod (Lviv, Ukraine) Thomas Palberg (Mainz, Germany) Rudolf Roemer (Warwick, UK) Lev Shchur (Landau Institute, Russia) Stefan Thurner (Vienna, Austria) Slobodan Zumer (Ljubljana, Slovenia) INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD B. Berche (Nancy), K. Binder (Mainz), C. Di Castro (Roma), A. Cuccoli (Firenze), R. Folk (Linz), A. Gambassi (Trieste), M. Henkel (Nancy), Y. Holovatch (Lviv), F. Igloi (Budapest), W. Janke (Leipzig), G. Meissner (Saarbruecken), H. Rieger (Saarbrueken), A. Surda (Bratislava), J. Sznajd (Wroclaw), S. Trimper (Halle), K. Uzelac (Zagreb) LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE Christian von Ferber Damien Foster Nikolaos Fytas Nikolay Izmailian Ralph Kenna Thierry Platini Martin Weigel Taras Yavors'kii MECO39 Applied Mathematics Research Centre Coventry University Coventry CV1 5FB England URL: http://meco39.complexity-coventry.org/ e-mail: meco39@coventry.ac.uk ------ Subject: Summer school, Mathematical methods of biological evolution From: "Andrei.Korobeinikov" Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 08:58:40 -0000 The Centre de Recerca Matematica (http://www.crm.cat) most cordially invites participants for a summer school "Mathematical methods of biological evolution". Dates: June 23-27, 2014 Venue: the Centre de Recerca Matematica, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain. Coordinator: Andrei Korobeinikov, CRM (akorobeinikov@crm.cat) Subject areas: Biological evolution; Mathematical modelling; Computer simulation; Multiscale modelling; System biology; Virus dynamics; Viral evolution This four-day (24 hours of lectures) advance course is organized in the framework of an intended CRM "Mathematics in Life Sciences" series and aimed at postgraduate students and young scientists (mathematicians as well as non-mathematicians) with interest in mathematical modelling and mathematical methods in biology. The goal of the advance course is to provide an introduction of mathematical ideas and methods applied to all aspects of biological evolution. Lecturers: * Yoh Iwasa , Kyushu University, Japan * Santiago F. Elena, Instituto de Biologia Molecular y Celular de Plantas, Valencia * Nick Barton, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria * Andrei Korobeinikov, CRM * Tomas Alarcon, CRM Please note that the 24th of June is St. Joan day. St. Joan day is one of the most important festivals in Catalonia often described as the "Night of Fire" (http://www.barcelona-tourist-guide.com/en/events/sant-joan/feast-sant-joan.html). There will be no lessons this day. For other detail and to register please go to http://www.crm.cat/2014/ACBiologicalEvolution . Registration includes lectures, documentation package, lunches and coffee breaks. You also can contact Mrs. Consol Roca (croca@crm.cat) or Prof. Andrei Korobeinikov (akorobeinikov@crm.cat) Please note that from June 30th to July 4th, 2014, that is, immediately after the school, the CRM organizes a workshop on Virus dynamics and evolution (http://www.crm.cat/2014/WKVirusDynamics). The CRM is able to offer reduced registration fees for the participants who register for both these activities. We also would like to draw your attention that the 10th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications (http://www.icmat.es/congresos/aims2014/) will be held in Madrid, Spain, on July 7 - 11, 2014, immediately after the CRM workshop on Virus dynamics and evolution. ------ Subject: Workshop, Virus dynamics and evolution From: "Andrei.Korobeinikov" Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 09:04:50 -0000 A workshop on Virus dynamics and evolution The Centre de Recerca Matematica (http://www.crm.cat) most cordially invites participants for a workshop on "Virus dynamics and evolution". Dates: June 30-July 4, 2014 Venue: the Centre de Recerca Matematica, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain. Subject areas: Mathematical modelling; Computer simulation; Multiscale modelling; Dynamical systems; Control; System biology; Marine ecosystems; Biological evolution; Virus dynamics; Immune response; Viral evolution This five days interdisciplinary workshop on all aspects of mathematical modelling and mathematical methods in virus dynamics and viral evolution is organized in the framework of an intended CRM "Mathematics in Life Sciences" series. The areas of interest of the workshop include (but not limited to) directions such as dynamics of virus within a host and in a community; antiviral therapy; immune response and immunity failure; HIV and AIDS; plant virus; viral evolution; bacteriophages and their possible use in antibacterial therapy, etc. Mathematical methods include deterministic (both, ODE and PDE) and stochastic modelling, control theory, networks, random processes, as well as other approaches and methods. The goal of the workshop is to bring together mathematicians and microbiologists to exchange results, ideas and, in particularly, open problems and challenges. Accordingly, apart from usual contributed talks and posters, the organizers plan a number of invited lectures delivered by biologists and specifically focused on existing scientific challenges in microbiology. The expected (or most desirable) outcome will be set up of interdisciplinary collaborations between participants from different disciplines. Organizing Committee: Andrei Korobeinikov, CRM Dolors Vaque, Elena Lara and Elisabet Sa, Institut de Ciencies del Mar (ICM), Barcelona Angel Calsina and Silvia Cuadrado, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona Santiago F. Elena, Instituto de Biologia Molecular y Celular de Plantas, Valencia Yoh Iwasa, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan Scientific Committee: Prof. Nick Barton Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria) Vladimir Sobolev (Samara Airspace University) Greame Wake (New Zealand) Publication: Extended abstracts will be published in the CRM Documents Series. The workshop is organized immediately after a summer school "Mathematical methods of biological evolution", which will be run June 23-27, 2014, by the CRM (see http://www.crm.cat/2014/ACBiologicalEvolution). The CRM is able to offer reduced registration fees for the participants who register for both, the school and workshop. We also would like to draw your attention that the 10th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications (http://www.icmat.es/congresos/aims2014/ ) will be held in Madrid, Spain, on July 7 - 11, 2014, that is immediately after the workshop. For other detail and to register please go to http://www.crm.cat/2014/WKVirusDynamics You also can contact Mrs. Consol Roca (croca@crm.cat) or Prof. Andrei Korobeinikov (akorobeinikov@crm.cat) ------ Subject: 7th Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference From: Conf@cmsim.org Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 03:56:12 +0200 Dear Colleague, You are kindly invited to participate to the forthcoming Nonlinear Analysis Conference titled: 7th Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference (CHAOS2014), Lisbon, Portugal 7-10 June 2014 (http://www.cmsim.org). The forthcoming International Conference (CHAOS2014) on Chaotic Modeling, Simulation and Applications will take place in VIP Executive Zurique Hotel, Lisbon, Portugal (7-10 June 2014). The general topics and the special sessions proposed for the Conference include but are not limited to: Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics, Stochastic Chaos, Chemical Chaos, Data Analysis and Chaos, Hydrodynamics, Turbulence and Plasmas, Optics and Chaos, Chaotic Oscillations and Circuits, Chaos in Climate Dynamics, Geophysical Flows, Biology and Chaos, Neurophysiology and Chaos, Hamiltonian Systems, Chaos in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Chaos and Solitons, Micro- and Nano- Electro-Mechanical Systems, Neural Networks and Chaos, Ecology and Economy. The publications of the conference include: 1. The Book of Abstracts in Electronic and in Paper form 2. Electronic Proceedings in CD and in the web in a permanent website 3. Publication in the Journal of "Chaotic Modeling and Simulation 4. Book Publications devoted to CHAOS2014 International Conference For more information and Abstract/Paper submission and Special Session Proposals please visit the conference website at: http://www.cmsim.org or send email to the Conference Secretariat at: secretar@cmsim.org Kind regards Prof. Christos H. Skiadas Conference Co-Chair (http://www.cmsim.net) Technical University of Crete Email: skiadas@cmsim.net ------ Subject: PhD Position, Complex Systems and Data Science From: Massimiliano Zanin Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 10:30:21 +0100 We are pleased to announce an open position for a PhD student, in a collaboration between The Innaxis Foundation & Research Institute (www.innaxis.org) and the Computer Science School of the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) (www.fi.upm.es/?idioma=english). We are seeking a creative and motivated student for a 3-years PhD founded by the SESAR WP-E Program: *Complex Systems and Data Science: Towards a new Perspective for the Understanding of Air Transport* A strong background in at least two of the following fields is required: - Data Science (e.g., data mining, data integration, data visualisation) - Physics of Complex Systems (e.g., complex networks, self-organised criticality) - Mathematics (e.g., statistical learning, statistical inference) Furthermore, affinity with air transport and air transport management will be an advantage. The requirements are being able to enrol in the PhD program of UPM, proficiency in English, interest in scientific work, good presentation skills, availability for traveling, and willingness to present scientific work at international conferences. No knowledge of particular programming languages is required, but C / C++ or Matlab are preferred. The interview process will be in English. The successful applicant will be allowed to work in a attractive and creative international environment within an excellent research team, and with a competitive salary (subject to negotiation). Please send your application including CV, list of publications, one or two related publications (if available), as well as any other material you consider relevant via email to: innovation@innaxis.org If you have any further questions, please feel free to send a message to the previous email address. ------ Subject: Contents, Evolution Equations and Control Theory 2:4 From: Liwei Ning Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 10:55:52 -0600 Evolution Equations and Control Theory (EECT) Volume: 2, Number: 4 December 2013 http://aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=641 Special issue dedicated to Walter Littman on the occasion of his retirement 1. Preface Pages : i - ii Stephen W. Taylor and Roberto Triggiani 2. A problem of boundary controllability for a plate Pages : 557 - 562 Orazio Arena 3. Fluid-structure interaction with and without internal dissipation of the structure: A contrast study in stability Pages : 563 - 598 George Avalos and Roberto Triggiani 4. On Landau-Lifshitz equations of no-exchange energy models in ferromagnetics Pages : 599 - 620 Wei Deng and Baisheng Yan 5. A remark on Littman's method of boundary controllability Pages : 621 - 630 Matthias Eller 6. Regularity and stability of a wave equation with a strong damping and dynamic boundary conditions Pages : 631 - 667 Nicolas Fourrier and Irena Lasiecka 7. Control of blow-up singularities for nonlinear wave equations Pages : 669 - 677 Satyanad Kichenassamy 8. Uniqueness and Holder type stability of continuation for the linear thermoelasticity system with residual stress Pages : 679 - 693 Nanhee Kim 9. Uniform stabilization of a multilayer Rao-Nakra sandwich beam Pages : 695 - 710 A. Ozkan Ozer and Scott W. Hansen 10. Trace properties of certain damped linear elastic systems Pages : 711 - 721 David L. Russell 11. Optimal control of a diffusion/reaction/switching system Pages : 723 - 731 Thomas I. Seidman 12. Locally smooth unitary groups and applications to boundary control of PDEs Pages : 733 - 740 Stephen W. Taylor 13. The approximate controllability of a model for mutant selection Pages : 741 - 747 Hans Weinberger 14. Study on the order of events in optimal control of a harvesting problem modeled by integrodifference equations Pages : 749 - 769 Peng Zhong and Suzanne Lenhart ------ Subject: Contents, Kinetic and Related Models 6:4 From: Liwei Ning Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 15:11:43 -0600 Kinetic and Related Models (KRM) Volume: 6, Number: 4 December 2013 http://aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=642 Special issue dedicated to professor Seiji Ukai 1. Preface Pages : i - ii Kazuo Aoki, Pierre Degond and Tong Yang 2. Seiji Ukai Pages : iii - iii Yan Guo 3. A Milne problem from a Bose condensate with excitations Pages : 671 - 686 Leif Arkeryd and Anne Nouri 4. Cauchy problem on the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation coupled with the compressible Euler equations through the friction force Pages : 687 - 700 Renjun Duan and Shuangqian Liu 5. Unstable galaxy models Pages : 701 - 714 Zhiyu Wang, Yan Guo, Zhiwu Lin and Pingwen Zhang 6. A remark on the ultra-analytic smoothing properties of the spatially homogeneous Landau equation Pages : 715 - 727 Yoshinori Morimoto, Karel Pravda-Starov and Chao-Jiang Xu 7. Global stability of stationary waves for damped wave equations Pages : 729 - 760 Lili Fan, Hongxia Liu, Huijiang Zhao and Qingyang Zou 8. Stability of a Vlasov-Boltzmann binary mixture at the phase transition on an interval Pages : 761 - 787 Raffaele Esposito, Yan Guo and Rossana Marra 9. Transport coefficients in the 2-dimensional Boltzmann equation Pages : 789 - 800 Alexander Bobylev and Raffaele Esposito 10. On self-similar solutions to the homogeneous Boltzmann equation Pages : 801 - 808 Marco Cannone and Grzegorz Karch 11. Vision-based macroscopic pedestrian models Pages : 809 - 839 Pierre Degond, Cecile Appert-Rolland, Julien Pettre and Guy Theraulaz 12. On a voltage-conductance kinetic system for integrate & fire neural networks Pages : 841 - 864 Benoit Perthame and Delphine Salort 13. Nonlinear stability of Broadwell model with Maxwell diffuse boundary condition Pages : 865 - 882 Shijin Deng, Linglong Du and Shih-Hsien Yu 14. Energy estimate for a linear symmetric hyperbolic-parabolic system in half line Pages : 883 - 892 Tohru Nakamura and Shinya Nishibata 15. The Cauchy problem for the Vlasov-Dirac-Benney equation and related issues in fluid mechanics and semi-classical limits Pages : 893 - 917 Claude Bardos and Nicolas Besse 16. Empirical measures and Vlasov hierarchies Pages : 919 - 943 Fran\c{c}ois Golse, Clement Mouhot and Valeria Ricci 17. Convex analysis and thermodynamics Pages : 945 - 954 Nelly Point and Silvano Erlicher 18. Some properties of the kinetic equation for electron transport in semiconductors Pages : 955 - 967 Wolfgang Wagner 19. Asymptotic behavior of solutions to the generalized cubic double dispersion equation in one space dimension Pages : 969 - 987 Masakazu Kato, Yu-Zhu Wang and Shuichi Kawashima 20. Remarks on the full dispersion Kadomtsev-Petviashvli equation Pages : 989 - 1009 David Lannes and Jean-Claude Saut 21. Local existence with mild regularity for the Boltzmann equation Pages : 1011 - 1041 Radjesvarane Alexandre, Yoshinori Morimoto, Seiji Ukai, Chao-Jiang Xu and Tong Yang 22. A kinetic description of mutation processes in bacteria Pages : 1043 - 1055 Giuseppe Toscani ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 266 From: ScienceDirect Message Center Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:53:53 -0500 * Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena Volume 266, Pages 1-82, 1 January 2014 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01672789/266 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) Editorial Board Pages IFC 2) Risk reduction for nonlinear prediction and its application to the surrogate data test Original Research Article, Pages 1-12 Tomoya Suzuki, Kazuya Nakata 3) Small-world networks of Kuramoto oscillators Original Research Article, Pages 13-22 Georgi S. Medvedev 4) Bifurcation analysis on the globally coupled Kuramoto oscillators with distributed time delays Original Research Article, Pages 23-33 Ben Niu, Yuxiao Guo 5) Dynamics of an eccentric disk on a curved surface Original Research Article, Pages 34-41 Genevieve M. Lipp, Brian P. Mann 6) Wave propagation in 2D random granular media Original Research Article, Pages 42-48 Mohith Manjunath, Amnaya P. Awasthi, Philippe H. Geubelle 7) Chirikov and Nekhoroshev diffusion estimates: Bridging the two sides of the river Original Research Article, Pages 49-64 Pablo M. Cincotta, Christos Efthymiopoulos, Claudia M. Giordano, Martin F. Mestre 8) Influence of nonlinearity of the phonon dispersion relation on wave velocities in the four-moment maximum entropy phonon hydrodynamics Original Research Article, Pages 65-79 Wieslaw Larecki, Zbigniew Banach 9) Comments on 'Global dynamics of the generalized Lorenz systems having invariant algebraic surfaces' Pages 80-82 Antonio Algaba, Fernando Fernandez-Sanchez, Manuel Merino, Alejandro J. Rodriguez-Luis ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 267 From: ScienceDirect Message Center Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 03:42:34 -0500 * Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena Volume 267, Pages 1-132, 15 January 2014 Evolving Dynamical Networks Edited by I. Belykh, M. di Bernardo, J. Kurths and M. Porfiri http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01672789/267 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) Editorial Board Pages IFC 2) Evolving dynamical networks Pages 1-6 Igor Belykh, Mario di Bernardo, Jurgen Kurths, Maurizio Porfiri 3) Evolving networks in the human epileptic brain Original Research Article, Pages 7-15 Klaus Lehnertz, Gerrit Ansmann, Stephan Bialonski, Henning Dickten, Christian Geier, Stephan Porz 4) Networks of theta neurons with time-varying excitability: Macroscopic chaos, multistability, and final-state uncertainty Original Research Article, Pages 16-26 Paul So, Tanushree B. Luke, Ernest Barreto 5) Complex macroscopic behavior in systems of phase oscillators with adaptive coupling Original Research Article, Pages 27-35 Per Sebastian Skardal, Dane Taylor, Juan G. Restrepo 6) Adaptive coupling induced multi-stable states in complex networks Original Research Article, Pages 36-48 V.K. Chandrasekar, Jane H. Sheeba, B. Subash, M. Lakshmanan, J. Kurths 7) Causation entropy identifies indirect influences, dominance of neighbors and anticipatory couplings Original Research Article, Pages 49-57 Jie Sun, Erik M. Bollt 8) Composite centrality: A natural scale for complex evolving networks Original Research Article, Pages 58-67 A.C. Joseph, G. Chen 9) Moment-closure approximations for discrete adaptive networks Original Research Article, Pages 68-80 G. Demirel, F. Vazquez, G.A. Bohme, T. Gross 10) Adaptive network dynamics and evolution of leadership in collective migration Original Research Article, Pages 81-93 Darren Pais, Naomi E. Leonard 11) Decentralized identification and control of networks of coupled mobile platforms through adaptive synchronization of chaos Original Research Article, Pages 94-103 Nicola Bezzo, Patricio J. Cruz, Francesco Sorrentino, Rafael Fierro 12) A graph-theoretic approach on optimizing informed-node selection in multi-agent tracking control Original Research Article, Pages 104-111 Guodong Shi, Kin Cheong Sou, Henrik Sandberg, Karl Henrik Johansson 13) Delay-dependent coupling for a multi-agent LTI consensus system with inter-agent delays Original Research Article, Pages 112-122 Wei Qiao, Rifat Sipahi 14) Finite-time thermodynamics of port-Hamiltonian systems Original Research Article, Pages 123-132 Jean-Charles Delvenne, Henrik Sandberg