Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 14, Number 23 December 15, 2014 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: School, New Perspectives in Markov Chain Monte Carlo Summer School, Complex Networks: Theory, methods, and Applications Postgraduate Conference in Complex Dynamics Conference on Chaos, Complexity and Transport The First International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience Workshop, Longtime Behaviour of Nonlinear Waves Postdoctoral Fellowship 'Hunting for Wild Chaos', New Zealand Tenure Track Positions in Mathematics, Hong Kong Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A 35:4 Contents, Journal of Dynamics and Games 1:4 Contents, Advances in Mathematics of Communications 8:4 Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 292-293 Contents, Communications in Mathematical Sciences 15:2 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: School, New Perspectives in Markov Chain Monte Carlo From: Maria Paz Calvo Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 15:19:45 GMT School "New Perspectives in Markov Chain Monte Carlo" June 8-12, 2015 University of Valladolid, Spain Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are undoubtedly among the most important algorithms in science. The school "New Perspectives in Markov Chain Monte Carlo" is aimed at providing a survey of several recent developments in MCMC. There will be three courses of lectures taught by leading researchers; additionally, some participants will be given the opportunity of presenting their own results. The school is addressed to mathematicians, statisticians, and scientists interested in MCMC. PhD students and postdoctoral researchers attending the school may apply for accommodation support. Attendance to the school is open (there is no registration fee), but participants are requested to submit the registration form before May 18, 2015. Registration covers the scientific program of the school, the coffee breaks and lunches from Monday to Friday. Registration and application for accommodation support is now possible at http://wmatem.eis.uva.es/npmcmc ------ Subject: Summer School, Complex Networks: Theory, methods, and Applications From: sicc Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 03:06:58 -0700 Summer School COMPLEX NETWORKS: THEORY, METHODS, AND APPLICATIONS Lake Como School of Advanced Studies Como, Italy, Villa del Grumello, 18-22 May 2015 http://ntma.lakecomoschool.org/ Many real systems can be modeled as networks, where the elements of the system are nodes and interactions between elements are edges. An even larger set of systems can be modeled using dynamical processes on networks, which are in turn affected by the dynamics. Networks thus represent the backbone of many complex systems, and their theoretical and computational analysis makes it possible to gain insights into numerous applications. Networks permeate almost every conceivable discipline---including sociology, transportation, economics and finance, biology, and myriad others---and the study of "network science" has thus become a crucial component of modern scientific education. The school "Complex Networks: Theory, Methods, and Applications" offers a succinct education in network science. It is open to all aspiring scholars in any area of science or engineering who wish to study networks of any kind (whether theoretical or applied), and it is especially addressed to doctoral students and young postdoctoral scholars. The aim of the school is to deepen into both theoretical developments and applications in targeted fields. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Stefano Battiston University of Zurich http://www.bf.uzh.ch/cms/de/battiston.stefano.html Vittoria Colizza Inserm & Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, and ISI Foundation, Turin http://www.epicx-lab.com/vittoria-colizza Petter Holme Umea University http://www.tp.umu.se/~holme/ Yamir Moreno University of Zaragoza http://cosnet.bifi.es/people/yamir-moreno Carlo Piccardi Politecnico di Milano http://home.deib.polimi.it/piccardi/ Mason Porter University of Oxford https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/porterm/ LECTURERS Stefano Battiston, University of Zurich Guido Caldarelli, IMT Lucca Vittoria Colizza, Inserm & Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, and ISI Foundation, Turin Santo Fortunato, Aalto University Petter Holme, Umea University Mikko Kivela, University of Oxford Yamir Moreno, University of Zaragoza Carlo Piccardi, Politecnico di Milano PROGRAM Monday, 18 May, morning Introduction to complex networks (Piccardi) Monday, 18 May, afternoon Temporal networks (Holme) Tuesday, 19 May, morning Multilayer networks (Kivela) Tuesday, 19 May, afternoon Community detection in networks (Fortunato) Wednesday, 20 May no lectures Thursday, 21 May, morning and afternoon Networks in economics and finance (Battiston, Caldarelli) Friday, 22 May, morning and afternoon Contagion dynamics: epidemics on networks (Colizza, Moreno) For more information and application: http://ntma.lakecomoschool.org/ Sponsored by SICC - Italian Society for Chaos and Complexity e-mail info@sicc-it.org Web http://www.sicc-it.org ------ Subject: Postgraduate Conference in Complex Dynamics From: David Marti Pete Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 23:44:38 +0900 A postgraduate conference in Complex Dynamics will take place at De Morgan House, London, from Wednesday 11 to Friday 13 March 2015. The aim of this conference is to bring together PhD students and postdoctoral researchers so that they have the opportunity to present and discuss their work. The conference will consist of five sessions, each with a keynote talk and several short talks given by the students. Our invited speakers are experts that come from five universities in UK that do research in Complex Dynamics: - Dr. Adam Epstein (University of Warwick), - Dr. Dan Nicks (University of Nottingham), - Prof. Mary Rees FRS (University of Liverpool), - Prof. Gwyneth Stallard (The Open University), - Prof. Sebastian van Strien (Imperial College London). The registration will be open until 31 January 2015. For more information visit the website: www.maths.open.ac.uk/pccd15, or contact the organisers Vasiliki Evdoridou (Vasiliki.Evdoridou@open.ac.uk) and David Marti-Pete (David.MatiPete@open.ac.uk). The conference is supported by an LMS Postgraduate Research Conference grant (Scheme 8) and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of The Open University. ------ Subject: Conference on Chaos, Complexity and Transport From: Xavier Leoncini Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:36:22 +0100 Dear Colleague, this is the first announcement of the International Conference (3rd Edition, after CCT'07 and CCT'11) Chaos, Complexity and Transport (CCT'15) Marseilles, France June 1-5 , 2014. The scope of the conference is to discuss shared phenomena in nonlinear dynamics related to chaos, transport and complexity. A strong emphasis will be put on the interdisciplinary character of the conference. In the spirit of its interdisciplinary character, we encourage contributions from the following fields: * Chaos * Nonlinear Physics * transport * complex system * self-organization * Hamiltonian systems * mixing * quantum chaos * control * fluid mechanics * plasma physics * nonlinear optics The invited speakers are: V. Afraimovich (Univ. San Luis Potosi, Mexico) Further information (registration procedure, scientific program and committes, conference location, hotels list etc.) may be found on the conference web site: http://cct15.cpt.univ-mrs.fr which will be regularly updated. Note that proceedings will be published. If you wish to attend the conference and eventually present a short communication or a poster please submit an abstract by MARCH 15th, and Register by APRIL 30th (if you only wish to attend only registration is needed). Please feel free to forward this message to anyone you think could be interested in this conference. We apologize if you receive this announcement more than once. Best Regards The Organizing Committee conference e-mail : cct15.marseilles@gmail.com conference web-page : http://cct15.cpt.univ-mrs.fr ------ Subject: The First International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience From: Stephen Coombes Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 09:55:49 +0000 Second announcement 1st International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience (ICMNS) June 8 - 10, 2015 Antibes - Juan les Pins, France https://icmns2015.inria.fr The goal of this conference is to bring together theoretical neuroscientists and mathematicians interested in using mathematical concepts and methods for solving problems posed by neuroscience. It is motivated by the idea that many outstanding questions concerning the functioning/dysfunctioning of brains at multiple spatial and temporal scales will require the use of a wide range of mathematical tools, including, but not restricted to, functional analysis, dynamical systems theory, bifurcation theory, probability and statistics, stochastic calculus, geometry, information theory, and numerical analysis. It is also likely that neuroscience will spawn new areas of mathematics. The conference will be single track. It will feature three keynote lectures, oral presentations, and poster presentations. The keynote lecturers are Susanne Ditlevsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), stochastic processes in neuroscience, Bard Ermentrout (University of Pittsburgh, USA), neurodynamics, and Yves Fregnac (CNRS, France), neuroscience of vision. Call for contributions Oral presentations will be selected from the submission of one-page abstracts. Poster presentations will be selected from the submissions of a half a page abstracts. Accepted oral contributions will be considered for possible publication in a special issue of the Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience. See the page https://icmns2015.inria.fr/accepted-papers/ for LaTeX and Word templates and how to submit. Important dates: Submission deadline: February 2, 2015 Notification of acceptance: February 27, 2015 Best regards, Steve ------ Subject: Workshop, Longtime Behaviour of Nonlinear Waves From: Wolf-Juergen Beyn beyn@math.uni-bielefeld.de Date: December 08, 2014 Longtime Behaviour of Nonlinear Waves June 8-12, 2015 at Bielefeld University Organizers: Wolf-Juergen Beyn and Sebastian Herr Support: Collaborative Research Centre 701 'Spectral Structures and Topological Methods in Mathematics' Topics: Well-posedness of dispersive equations (nonlinear Schrodinger, Dirac-Klein Gordon, Yang-Mills, complex Ginzburg-Landau damped wave etc.), longtime behaviour of numerical integrators, stability of nonlinear waves, essential and point spectra, computational methods for point spectra, Evans function and Krein signature, Hamiltonian PDEs. For registration, invited speakers and further information visit http://www.math.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb701/2015_NonlinearWaves/ Further contributions are welcome and some limited support for younger researchers is still available. ------ Subject: Postdoctoral Fellowship 'Hunting for Wild Chaos', New Zealand From: Stefanie Hittmeyer Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 18:02:38 +1300 Applications are invited for an 18-months Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on the project Hunting for Wild Chaos. This research is funded by a Faculty Research Development Fund grant and will be supervised by Profs. Bernd Krauskopf and Hinke Osinga at The University of Auckland. The Fellowship is available from April 2015; the exact start date is to be agreed with the successful candidate as appropriate. Project description It is well known that many systems arising in applications - including laser systems, chemical reactions and biological systems, to name but a few - may display chaotic dynamics. Mathematically, this type of behaviour can be found in differential equation models with three independent variables. The famous Lorenz system is a prototypical example, and the chaotic dynamics it displays is known as classical chaos. The theory behind this type of behaviour is inherently geometric in nature: it requires an understanding of the overall organisation of phase space by (hyper)surfaces called global invariant manifolds. Recent purely theoretical results predict that models with more than three independent variables may exhibit a new type of chaos, which is called wild chaos. Colloquially speaking, wild chaos is more prevalent (in a mathematically precise sense) than the classical chaos. The aim of this project is to answer the following questions: What is the geometrical hallmark of wild chaos compared to classical chaos? How can it be identified in a given mathematical model? What does the existence of wild chaos imply for the observed dynamics of the system? We are in a unique position to study wild chaos, because we identified a model for calcium dynamics in a neuronal cell in which to hunt for it, and we have developed the advanced numerical tools to do the hunting. Informal inquiries are welcome by email. Contact: Prof. Bernd Krauskopf (B.Krauskopf@auckland.ac.nz) or Prof. Hinke Osinga (H.M.Osinga@auckland.ac.nz) Applications should be sent by email to the project supervisors; those receiced by 31 January 2015 will be given full consideration. Your application should include a CV and names and email addresses of three academic referees who may be contacted in support of your application. ------ Subject: Tenure Track Positions in Mathematics, Hong Kong From: Dr. T.W. Ng ntw@maths.hku.hk Date: December 02, 2014 Applications are invited for tenure-track appointment as Associate Professor/Assistant Professor (3 posts) in the Department of Mathematics, to commence from September 1, 2015 or as soon as possible thereafter. The appointment will initially be made on a three-year term basis, with the possibility of renewal and with consideration for tenure during the second three-year contract. Information about the Department can be obtained at http://www.hku.hk/math/. Candidates in all areas of Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences will be considered, with preference given to those working in the areas of Scientific Computing, Computational Mathematics, Financial Mathematics, Operations Research, and Optimization. The appointees are expected to actively engage in outreach and service. Applicants should send a completed application form, together with an up-to-date C.V. containing information on educational and professional experience, a complete list of publications, a survey of past research and teaching experience, a research plan for the next few years, and a statement on teaching philosophy by e-mail to scmath@hku.hk. They should also arrange for submission, to the same e-mail address as stated above, three reference letters from senior academics. One of these senior academics should be asked to comment on the applicant???s ability in teaching, or the applicant should arrange to have an additional reference letter on his/her teaching sent to the same e-mail address as stated above. Please indicate clearly which level they wish to be considered for and the reference number in the subject of the e-mail. Application forms (341/1111) can be downloaded at http://www.hku.hk/apptunit/form-ext.doc. Further particulars can be obtained at http://jobs.hku.hk/. Review of applications will start from February 1, 2015 and continue until all the posts are filled. ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A 35:4 From: Liwei Ning Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 10:15:18 -0600 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A (DCDS-A) Volume: 35, Number: 4 April 2015 http://www.aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=729 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A (DCDS-A) Volume: 35, Number: 4 April 2015 http://www.aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=729 1. Preface: Special issue on dissipative systems and applications with emphasis on nonlocal or nonlinear diffusion problems Pages : i - iii Georg Hetzer and Wenxian Shen 2. Asymptotic behavior for a nonlocal diffusion equation on the half line Pages : 1391 - 1407 Carmen Cortazar, Manuel Elgueta, Fernando Quiros and Noemi Wolanski 3. Finite mass solutions for a nonlocal inhomogeneous dispersal equation Pages : 1409 - 1419 Carmen Cortazar, Manuel Elgueta, Jorge Garcia-Melian and Salome Martinez 4. Nonlocal refuge model with a partial control Pages : 1421 - 1446 Jerome Coville 5. On the free boundary associated with the stationary Monge--Ampere operator on the set of non strictly convex functions Pages : 1447 - 1468 Gregorio Diaz and Jesus Ildefonso Diaz 6. Decay estimates for a nonlocal p-Laplacian evolution problem with mixed boundary conditions Pages : 1469 - 1478 Raul Ferreira and Julio D. Rossi 7. Existence and multiplicity of segregated solutions to a cell-growth contact inhibition problem Pages : 1479 - 1501 Gonzalo Galiano, Sergey Shmarev and Julian Velasco 8. On a climatological energy balance model with continents distribution Pages : 1503 - 1519 Arturo Hidalgo and Lourdes Tello 9. Strong positivity of continuous supersolutions to parabolic equations with rough boundary data Pages : 1521 - 1530 Dung Le 10. Invasion entire solutions in a competition system with nonlocal dispersal Pages : 1531 - 1560 Wan-Tong Li, Li Zhang and Guo-Bao Zhang 11. Spiraling bifurcation diagrams in superlinear indefinite problems Pages : 1561 - 1588 Julian Lopez-Gomez, Marcela Molina-Meyer and Andrea Tellini 12. Pattern formation in a cross-diffusion system Pages : 1589 - 1607 Yuan Lou, Wei-Ming Ni and Shoji Yotsutani 13. Spreading speeds and traveling waves of nonlocal monostable equations in time and space periodic habitats Pages : 1609 - 1640 Nar Rawal, Wenxian Shen and Aijun Zhang 14. Avoidance behavior in intraguild predation communities: A cross-diffusion model Pages : 1641 - 1663 Daniel Ryan and Robert Stephen Cantrell 15. On principal spectrum points/principal eigenvalues of nonlocal dispersal operators and applications Pages : 1665 - 1696 Wenxian Shen and Xiaoxia Xie 16. Clines with directional selection and partial panmixia in an unbounded unidimensional habitat Pages : 1697 - 1741 Linlin Su and Thomas Nagylaki 17. Traveling waves of a mutualistic model of mistletoes and birds Pages : 1743 - 1765 Chuncheng Wang, Rongsong Liu, Junping Shi and Carlos Martinez del Rio ------ Subject: Contents, Journal of Dynamics and Games 1:4 From: Liwei Ning Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:37:16 -0600 Journal of Dynamics and Games (JDG) Volume: 1, Number: 4 October 2014 http://www.aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=727 1. Nonzero-sum stochastic differential games with additive structure and average payoffs Pages : 555 - 578 Beatris Adriana Escobedo-Trujillo and Jose Daniel Lopez-Barrientos 2. Investment under uncertainty, competition and regulation Pages : 579 - 598 Adrien Nguyen Huu 3. A game theoretic analysis of the cops and robber game Pages : 599 - 619 Georgios Konstantinidis 4. Payoff performance of fictitious play Pages : 621 - 638 Georg Ostrovski and Sebastian van Strien 5. A limit theorem for Markov decision processes Pages : 639 - 659 Mathias Staudigl ------ Subject: Contents, Advances in Mathematics of Communications 8:4 From: Liwei Ning Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 11:26:08 -0600 Advances in Mathematics of Communications (AMC) Volume: 8, Number: 4 November 2014 http://www.aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=728 1. Editorial Pages : i - ii The Editors 2. Trisection for supersingular genus 2 curves in characteristic 2 Pages : 375 - 387 Josep M. Miret, Jordi Pujolas and Nicolas Theriault 3. Comparison of scalar multiplication on real hyperelliptic curves Pages : 389 - 406 Michael J. Jacobson, Jr., Monireh Rezai Rad and Renate Scheidler 4. Subexponential time relations in the class group of large degree number fields Pages : 407 - 425 Jean-Francois Biasse 5. Some remarks on primality proving and elliptic curves Pages : 427 - 436 Alice Silverberg 6. The geometry of some parameterizations and encodings Pages : 437 - 458 Jean-Marc Couveignes and Reynald Lercier 7. Smoothness testing of polynomials over finite fields Pages : 459 - 477 Jean-Francois Biasse and Michael J. Jacobson, Jr. 8. Curves in characteristic 2 with non-trivial 2-torsion Pages : 479 - 495 Wouter Castryck, Marco Streng and Damiano Testa 9. On the irreducibility of the hyperplane sections of Fermat varieties in P3 in characteristic 2 Pages : 497 - 509 Eric Ferard 10. Splitting of abelian varieties Pages : 511 - 519 V. Kumar Murty and Ying Zong ------ Subject: Contents, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 292-293 From: ScienceDirect Message Center Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 04:37:20 -0500 * Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena Volumes 292-293, Pages 1-84, 1 February 2015 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01672789/292-293 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) Editorial Board Pages IFC 2) Critical behavior for scalar nonlinear waves Original Research Article, Pages 1-7 Davide Masoero, Andrea Raimondo, Pedro R.S. Antunes 3) Dynamics and stability of a discrete breather in a harmonically excited chain with vibro-impact on-site potential Original Research Article, Pages 8-28 Nathan Perchikov, O.V. Gendelman 4) Coleman-Gurtin type equations with dynamic boundary conditions Original Research Article, Pages 29-45 Ciprian G. Gal, Joseph L. Shomberg 5) Premixed-flame shapes and polynomials Original Research Article, Pages 46-50 Bruno Denet, Guy Joulin 6) Convergence of the 2D Euler-\alpha to Euler equations in the Dirichlet case: Indifference to boundary layers Original Research Article, Pages 51-61 Milton C. Lopes Filho, Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes, Edriss S. Titi, Aibin Zang 7) Instability observations associated with wave breaking in the stable-stratified deep-ocean Original Research Article, Pages 62-69 Hans van Haren 8) Mixed mode oscillations in a conceptual climate model Original Research Article, Pages 70-83 Andrew Roberts, Esther Widiasih, Martin Wechselberger, Christopher K.R.T. Jones ------ Subject: Contents, Communications in Mathematical Sciences 15:2 From: Communications in Math Sciences Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 13:35:36 -0600 Communications in Mathematical Sciences (CMS) Vol 13, No. 2, 2015 Table of Contents http://intlpress.com/site/pub/pages/journals/items/cms/content/_home/index.html Stochastic mode-reduction in models with conservative fast sub-systems by Ankita Jain, Ilya Timofeyev, and Eric Vanden-Eijnden A new linear Poisson-Boltzmann equation and finite element solver by solution decomposition approach by Jiao Li and Dexuan Xie Classical solutions to the Cauchy problem for 2D viscous polytropic fluids with vacuum and zero heat-conduction by Zhilei Liang and Xiaoding Shi A refined existence criterion for the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system by Christophe Pallard Asymptotic stability and quenching behavior of a hyperbolic nonlocal MEMS equation by Chuangchuang Liang and Kaijun Zhang Hyperbolic predators vs. parabolic prey by Rinaldo M. Colombo and Elena Rossi Compressible Navier-Stokes equations with temperature dependent heat conductivity by Ronghua Pan and Weizhe Zhang Smooth approximations of the Aleksandrov solution of the Monge-Ampere equation by Gerard Awanou Large time behavior in nonlinear Schrodinger equations with time dependent potential by Remi Carles and Jorge Drumond Silva Regularity criteria of the porous media equation in terms of one partial derivative or pressure field by Kazuo Yamazaki Vanishing viscosity limit to rarefaction wave with vacuum for 1-D compressible Navier-Stokes equations with density-dependent viscosity by Teng Wang Marketing new products: Bass models on random graphs by Meili Li, Reinhard Illner, Rod Edwards, and Junling Ma Variational approach to scattering by unbounded rough surfaces with Neumann and generalized impedance boundary conditions by Guanghui Hu, Xiaodong Liu, Fenglong Qu, and Bo Zhang Random attractor and stationary measure for stochastic long-short wave equations by Donglong Li, Yanfeng Guo, and Boling Guo A note on the surface quasi-geostrophic temperature variance cascade by Zachary Bradshaw and Zoran Gruji Analysis of the dendritic integration of excitatory and inhibitory inputs using cable models by Songting Li, Douglas Zhou, and David Cai A simple derivation of BV bounds for inhomogeneous relaxation systems by Benoit Perthame, Nicolas Seguin, and Magali Tournus