Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 14, Number 17 September 15, 2014 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: Fermi Acceleration Workshop 8th Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference Meeting, New Trends in Analysis and Control of Complex Networks Workshop on Fluid-Structure Interactions Conference on Approximation and Modeling in Natural Resources PhD position in Ecological or Environmental Modeling Postdoc Positions, Modelling in Systems and Synthetic Biology Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B 19:7 Contents, Evolution Equations and Control Theory 3:3 Contents, Inverse Problems and Imaging 8:3 Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 286-287 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: Fermi Acceleration Workshop From: Vasily Gelfreich Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 11:21:17 +0100 Fermi Acceleration Workshop (Fermi Acceleration and Time Dependent Billiards - FATB2014) Imperial College London, 7th - 10th December, 2014 Organized by Dmitry Turaev, Tiago Pereira (Local Organizers), and Vassili Gelfreich, Vered Rom-Kedar, Kushal Shah With the growing interest in the problem of Fermi Accelerators and Time-dependent Billiards we plan to have a small spontaneous workshop in which recent progress in the field will be discussed. The workshop will consist of lectures of people working in this area (and possibly posters). We plan to reserve ample time for free discussions. Interested scientists at all levels are most welcome to attend and participate. There is no registration fee - do help us by registering in advance. Registration Form Workshop URL: http://web.iitd.ac.in/~kkshah/fermi-conf-dec2014.html ------ Subject: 8th Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference From: Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 05:53:29 +0300 Dear Colleague, Next year we will celebrate the 8th Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference (http://www.cmsim.org/) in Henri Poincare Institute (IHP), Paris France (26-29 May 2015). IHP is the ideal place for the conference as Henri Poincare is considered as the father of Chaotic modeling with his Poincare recurrence theorem and Poincare map. You are kindly invited to participate and to address a talk or to organize an invited session (The abstract or paper submissions page for all types of submissions (invited or contributed) is open at http://www.cmsim.org/abstractpaper.html ) 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 the web in a permanent website 3. Publication in the Journal of \223Chaotic Modeling and Simulation (CMSIM) 4. Book Publications devoted to CHAOS2015 International Conference For more information and Abstract/Paper submission and Special Session Proposals please visit the conference website at: http://www.cmsim.org/ http://www.chaos2009/ or send email to the Conference Secretariat at: Conf@cmsim.eu Kind regards Prof. Christos H. Skiadas Conference Co-Chair (http://www.cmsim.net) ManLab, Technical University of Crete Email: skiadas@cmsim.net ------ Subject: Meeting, New Trends in Analysis and Control of Complex Networks From: sicc Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 19:30:14 -0600 NetCon@ECCS'14 - New trends in analysis and control of complex networks A Satellite Meeting of the ECCS'14 - European Conference on Complex Systems Lucca, Italy, September 25, 2014 Organized by - Mario Di Bernardo, University of Bristol and University of Naples "Federico II" - Carlo Piccardi, Politecnico di Milano Technical sponsorship by SICC - Italian Society for Chaos and Complexity The interest on networks has dramatically increased in the last fifteen years, since it has been recognized that the network formalism is the best approach for dealing with complex systems made by discrete, interacting units like individuals, companies, computers, etc. Although plenty of methods of analysis have been developed, and many phenomena that crucially characterize network structures and dynamics can now be studied in a rigorous way, the challenge of the next decade is to transform the 'networks science' from a set of elegant theoretical results to a powerful toolbox for the everyday activity of scientists and engineers. A specific field where this development is more urgent is control, as the control and the 'network science' communities have put in common their rich theoretical knowledge only to a very little extent. The Satellite Meeting will be a forum for discussing recent advances in the study of network analysis and control. The workshop is intended to be fully interdisciplinary, and bring together both theoretical studies and applications to any field of science and engineering. Particular attention will be devoted to the following topics: Control and identification of complex networks; Consensus and synchronization on networks; Methods of dynamical systems and control theory applied to network analysis; Methods of network analysis applied to control problems; Networked control systems; Robustness of uncertain networked systems Invited talks (confirmed): - Takaaki Aoki, Kagawa University: Organization of adaptive networks as a dynamical system - Alberto Bemporad, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca: Stochastic economic model predictive control of complex drinking water networks - Yang-Yu Liu, Harvard University: Controllability and observability of complex systems - Roberto Tempo, CNR-IEIIT, Politecnico di Torino: Distributed randomized algorithms in social and sensor networks - Roberto Zampieri, University of Padova: Controllability metrics, limitations and algorithms for complex networks The Satellite Meeting will be hosted by ECCS'14 and will be co-located with the main conference at IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca. Satellite meeting website: http://home.deib.polimi.it/piccardi/netcon/ Satellite meeting email: netcon.eccs14@gmail.com ECCS'14 website: http://www.eccs14.eu SICC - Societa' Italiana Caos e Complessita' e-mail info@sicc-it.org Web http://www.sicc-it.org ------ Subject: Workshop on Fluid-Structure Interactions From: Miguel A. Fernandez Date: September 08, 2014 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON NUMERICAL METHODS AND APPLICATIONS IN FLUID- STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS November 24-25, 2014, Grenoble, France The workshop will focus on new research trends in fluid-structure interaction and is intended to provide an up-to-date view of recent results based on different modeling and computational aspects (ALE, Fully Eulerian, Lagrangian, fitted/unfitted meshes, coupling schemes, etc.) Invited speakers: E. Burman (University College London, UK) S. Canic (University of Houston, USA) L. Gastaldi (Universita degli Studi di Brescia, Italy) A. Iollo (Universite de Bordeaux, France) A. Lozinski (Universite de Franche-Comte, France) B. Maury (Universite Paris-Sud XI, France) T. Richter (Universitat Heidelberg, Germany) C. Vergara (Universita degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy) W. van Rees (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) W. Wall (Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany) Web site: http://sites.google.com/site/grenoblefsi14 Organizers: G.-H. Cottet, M.A. Fernandez, J.-F. Gerbeau, E. Maitre ------ Subject: Conference on Approximation and Modeling in Natural Resources From: Amaziane Date: September 05, 2014 6th International Conference on Approximation Methods and Numerical Modeling in Environment and Natural Resources (MAMERN VI-2015) June 1-5, 2015, Pau, France http://mamern15.sciencesconf.org/ Contact: mamern@univ-pau.fr Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1st February, 2015 Topics: Approximation and modeling applied to environment sciences and natural resources; New applications and developments in approximation methods; Mathematics and computation in geosciences; Modeling of ecosystems; Oceanographic and coastal engineering; Numerical modeling of flow and transport in porous media; Mathematical analysis of models in porous media; Multi-Scale Modeling of Flow and Transport in Porous Media; Statistical modeling in geosciences; Stochastic partial differential equations Selected papers from MAMERN VI-2015 will be published, after a refereeing process, as a Special Issue of the Journal MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN SIMULATION ------ Subject: PhD position in Ecological or Environmental Modeling From: Frank Hilker Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 12:20:56 +0200 The Institute of Environmental Systems Research at the School of Mathematics/Computer Science of Osnabruck University (Germany) has an opening for a PhD position in ecological or environmental modeling for the duration of three years, starting at the earliest possible date. The successful candidate will perform research in mathematical or computer-based modeling of ecological and environmental systems. In addition, the position comes with a teaching duty (usually problem classes in Applied Systems Science) amounting to 2 contact hours (90 minutes) per week during the teaching period (30 weeks per year). Required Qualifications: Qualifications required are an academic degree in (Applied or Bio-) Mathematics, Physics, Theoretical or Quantitative Biology, Geoecology, or an interdisciplinary program such as Environmental Modeling, Mathematical or Theoretical Biology, or Applied Systems Science. Ideally, the successful candidate is experienced in either equation-based modeling (e.g., differential equations) or agent-based modeling and is interested in one of the following fields: - Riverine modeling - Spatio-temporal population dynamics - Modeling integrated pest management - Modeling critical transitions and early-warning signals - Modeling of wildlife diseases Salary and conditions: Salary depends on age and status (net income depends on age and family status and is usually EUR 1,100-1,500 per month; German salary scale TV-L E 13, 50%). As a certified family-friendly institution, Osnabruck University is committed to furthering the compatibility between work/studies and family life. As an employer, Osnabruck University is particulary concerned with creating equality opportunities for women and men. Women with relevant qualifications are therefore strongly encouraged to apply for the position. Preference will be given to women with equal qualifications. Furthermore, qualified applicants with disabilities will be favored. Applications: To apply, please email Prof. Frank M. Hilker (frank.hilker@uni-osnabrueck.de) with a statement of interest, CV, transcripts, and the names and contact addresses of at least two academic references (in one pdf file) by October 31, 2014. For further information and inquiries, please contact Frank M. Hilker (frank.hilker@uni-osnabrueck.de, phone +49 541 969 3441). ------ Subject: Postdoc Positions, Modelling in Systems and Synthetic Biology From: Tatiana T. Marquez-Lago Date: September 08, 2014 We are looking for two enthusiastic scientists to helps us develop novel analysis tools and stochastic/multiscaled methods, widely applicable to gene expression and cell biology. The ideal candidates will have a strong background in mathematical modelling (ideally some numerical analysis and probability), a PhD in a related field, and a strong interest to collaborate with experimental biologists and theoreticians. Strong programming skills in Matlab are mandatory, while additional experience in C/C++ and Python is desirable but not essential. Additionally, experience with dynamical systems (ODEs, PDEs) is expected, while evidenced experience in biological/chemical reaction modeling and stochastic simulation will be considered a plus. Specific projects will entail constant feedback and cooperation with our home-based wet lab, and experimental and theoretical groups inside and outside Japan. Thus, the postdoc is expected to have excellent personal and communication skills, and to communicate research to interdisciplinary audiences. The successful candidate will join the Integrative Systems Biology Unit of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), and will work under the supervision of Prof. Tatiana Marquez-Lago. OIST's language of instruction is English, and a large segment of the faculty and student population is international. Details of our lab can be found in (https://groups.oist.jp/isbu), while further details of the position can be found in (http://www.oist.jp/careers/postdoctoral-scholar-integrative-systems-biology-unit). One of the positions is available immediately, and the second has a negotiable start date within the next 5 months. ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B 19:7 From: Liwei Ning Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 09:31:00 -0500 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B (DCDS-B) Volume: 19, Number: 7 September 2014 http://aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=702 1. Foreword Pages : i - i Sandra Carillo, Claudio Giorgi and Maurizio Grasselli 2. Viscoelastic fluids: Free energies, differential problems and asymptotic behaviour Pages : 1815 - 1835 Giovambattista Amendola, Sandra Carillo, John Murrough Golden and Adele Manes 3. Effect of intracellular diffusion on current--voltage curves in potassium channels Pages : 1837 - 1853 Daniele Andreucci, Dario Bellaveglia, Emilio N.M. Cirillo and Silvia Marconi 4. Mixed norms, functional Inequalities, and Hamilton-Jacobi equations Pages : 1855 - 1867 Antonio Avantaggiati, Paola Loreti and Cristina Pocci 5. On the multiscale modeling of vehicular traffic: From kinetic to hydrodynamics Pages : 1869 - 1888 Nicola Bellomo, Abdelghani Bellouquid, Juanjo Nieto and Juan Soler 6. Mathematical modeling of phase transition and separation in fluids: A unified approach Pages : 1889 - 1909 Alessia Berti, Claudio Giorgi and Angelo Morro 7. Discontinuity waves as tipping points: Applications to biological & sociological systems Pages : 1911 - 1934 John Bissell and Brian Straughan 8. Singular limit of an integrodifferential system related to the entropy balance Pages : 1935 - 1953 Elena Bonetti, Pierluigi Colli and Gianni Gilardi 9. An existence criterion for the PT-symmetric phase transition Pages : 1955 - 1967 Emanuela Caliceti and Sandro Graffi 10. Uniform weighted estimates on pre-fractal domains Pages : 1969 - 1985 Raffaela Capitanelli and Maria Agostina Vivaldi 11. Intrinsic decay rate estimates for the wave equation with competing viscoelastic and frictional dissipative effects Pages : 1987 - 2011 Marcelo M. Cavalcanti, Valeria N. Domingos Cavalcanti, Irena Lasiecka and Flavio A. Falcao Nascimento 12. On a generalized Cahn-Hilliard equation with biological applications Pages : 2013 - 2026 Laurence Cherfils, Alain Miranville and Sergey Zelik 13. Spatial behavior in the vibrating thermoviscoelastic porous materials Pages : 2027 - 2038 Stan Chirita 14. Asymptotic effects of boundary perturbations in excitable systems Pages : 2039 - 2045 Monica De Angelis and Pasquale Renno 15. Singular parabolic problems with possibly changing sign data Pages : 2047 - 2064 Ida De Bonis and Daniela Giachetti 16. The state of fractional hereditary materials (FHM) Pages : 2065 - 2089 Luca Deseri, Massiliano Zingales and Pietro Pollaci 17. Fatigue accumulation in a thermo-visco-elastoplastic plate Pages : 2091 - 2109 Michela Eleuteri, Jana Kopfova and Pavel Krejci 18. Uniqueness and stability results for non-linear Johnson-Segalman viscoelasticity and related models Pages : 2111 - 2132 Franca Franchi, Barbara Lazzari and Roberta Nibbi 19. On the Green-Naghdi Type III heat conduction model Pages : 2133 - 2143 Claudio Giorgi, Diego Grandi and Vittorino Pata 20. Nonlinear free fall of one-dimensional rigid bodies in hyperviscous fluids Pages : 2145 - 2157 Giulio G. Giusteri, Alfredo Marzocchi and Alessandro Musesti 21. Inverse problems for singular differential-operator equations with higher order polar singularities Pages : 2159 - 2168 Mohammed AL Horani and Angelo Favini 22. Strain gradient theory of porous solids with initial stresses and initial heat flux Pages : 2169 - 2187 Dorin Iesan 23. Second-sound phenomena in inviscid, thermally relaxing gases Pages : 2189 - 2205 Pedro M. Jordan 24. Going to new lengths: Studying the Navier--Stokes-AlphaBeta equations using the strained spiral vortex model Pages : 2207 - 2225 Tae-Yeon Kim, Xuemei Chen, John E. Dolbow and Eliot Fried 25. Analysis and simulation for an isotropic phase-field model describing grain growth Pages : 2227 - 2246 Maciek D. Korzec and Hao Wu 26. Identification problems related to cylindrical dielectrics **in presence of polarization** Pages : 2247 - 2265 Alfredo Lorenzi 27. On some properties of the Mittag-Leffler function Ea(-ta), completely monotone for t>0 with 0 Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 03:28:19 -0500 Evolution Equations and Control Theory (EECT) Volume: 3, Number: 3 September 2014 http://aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=706 1. Preface Pages : i - ii Claudio Giorgi, Davide Guidetti and Maria Grazia Naso 2. First-order inverse evolution equations Pages : 355 - 361 Mohammed Al Horani and Angelo Favini 3. Lower semicontinuity for polyconvex integrals without coercivity assumptions Pages : 363 - 372 Micol Amar and Virginia De Cicco 4. On the viscoelastic coupled suspension bridge Pages : 373 - 397 Ivana Bochicchio, Claudio Giorgi and Elena Vuk 5. Heat conduction with memory: A singular kernel problem Pages : 399 - 410 Sandra Carillo, Vanda Valente and Giorgio Vergara Caffarelli 6. Thermal control of a rate-independent model for permanent inelastic effects in shape memory materials Pages : 411 - 427 Michela Eleuteri and Luca Lussardi 7. Steady free fall of one-dimensional bodies in a hyperviscous fluid at low Reynolds number Pages : 429 - 445 Giulio G. Giusteri, Alfredo Marzocchi and Alessandro Musesti 8. Constructing free energies for materials with memory Pages : 447 - 483 John Murrough Golden 9. Lack of controllability of thermal systems with memory Pages : 485 497 Andrei Halanay and Luciano Pandolfi 10. A strongly ill-posed integrodifferential singular parabolic problem in the unit cube of Rn Pages : 499 - 524 Alfredo Lorenzi and Luca Lorenzi 11. On the nonlinear stability of ternary porous media via only one necessary and sufficient algebraic condition Pages : 525 - 539 Salvatore Rionero 12. Shocks and acceleration waves in modern continuum mechanics and in social systems Pages : 541 - 555 Brian Straughan ------ Subject: Contents, Inverse Problems and Imaging 8:3 From: Susan Cummins Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 03:02:17 -0500 Inverse Problems and Imaging (IPI) Volume: 8, Number: 3 August 2014 http://aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=707 1. Uniqueness and Lipschitz stability for the identification of Lame parameters from boundary measurements Pages : 611 - 644 Elena Beretta, Elisa Francini and Sergio Vessella 2. Resolution enhancement from scattering in passive sensor imaging with cross correlations Pages : 645 - 683 Josselin Garnier and George Papanicolaou 3. An adaptive finite element method in L2-TV-based image denoising Pages : 685 - 711 Michael Hintermuller and Monserrat Rincon-Camacho 4. Stability of the determination of a coefficient for wave equations in an infinite waveguide Pages : 713 - 732 Yavar Kian 5. Bayesian image restoration for mosaic active imaging Pages : 733 - 760 Nicolas Lerme, Francois Malgouyres, Dominique Hamoir and Emmanuelle Thouin 6. Compressed sensing with coherent tight frames via lq-minimization for 0 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 04:14:32 -0400 * Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena Volumes 286-287, Pages 1-60, 15 October 2014 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01672789/286-287 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) Editorial Board Pages IFC 2) Quasi-periodic solutions for quasi-periodically forced nonlinear Schrodinger equations with quasi-periodic inhomogeneous terms Review Article, Pages 1-31 Jie Rui, Jianguo Si 3) Impact of network connectivity on the synchronization and global dynamics of coupled systems of differential equations Original Research Article, Pages 32-42 Peng Du, Michael Y. Li 4) From synchronisation to persistent optical turbulence in laser arrays Original Research Article, Pages 43-58 Nicholas Blackbeard, Sebastian Wieczorek, Hartmut Erzgraber, Partha Sharathi Dutta 5) Corrigendum to "Isostables, isochrons, and Koopman spectrum for the action-angle representation of stable fixed point dynamics" [Physica D 261 (2013) 19-30] Pages 59 A. Mauroy, I. Mezic, J. Moehlis