Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 16, Number 04 March 1, 2016 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: School on Interactions between Dynamical Systems and PDEs Conference, The Dynamics of Complex Systems Workshop, Topics in nonlinear dynamics Conference on Dynamics, Bifurcations, and Strange Attractors Postdoc position, Zaragoza Postdoc Position, Sydney Contents, Numerical Algebra, Control and Optimization 6:1 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 on Interactions between Dynamical Systems and PDEs From: Marcel Guardia Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 19:08:53 +0100 14th WORKSHOP ON INTERACTIONS BETWEEN DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS AND PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (JISD2016) http://www.ma1.upc.edu/recerca/jisd/jisd2016 Barcelona, July 11 - 15, 2016, at the FME-UPC Lecturers: - Carlangelo Liverani (Universita di Roma "Tor Vergata") - Bassam Fayad (Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu) - Felix Otto (Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig) - Juncheng Wei (University of British Columbia, Vancouver) Organizers: - Xavier Cabre - Amadeu Delshams - Maria del Mar Gonzalez - Marcel Guardia - Tere M. Seara Scientific Committee: - Susanna Terracini - Jean Pierre Eckman - Scott Armstrong - Jean-Michel Roquejoffre Early registration fee: 200 euros. Late registration fee: 250 euros. There will be some ***financial support*** available for this edition. Deadline to apply for financial support: May 15 (results will be notified on may 31). Deadline for early registration: June 15. Deadline for late registration: July 10. Deadline to apply to give a communication/present a poster: May 15 (results will be notified on May 31). ------ Subject: Conference, The Dynamics of Complex Systems From: "Baesens, Claude" Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 20:59:22 +0000 Dear Colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to the conference The Dynamics of Complex Systems: A meeting in honour of the 60th Birthday of Robert MacKay FRS which is taking place at the University of Warwick on 18-20 May 2016. For more information and registration, please see https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/research/events/2015-16/nonsymposium/dcs PhD students are particularly encouraged to attend and there will be a prize for the best poster by a PhD student. Best wishes, Claude Baesens Mathematics Institute University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL, UK Tel: +44 2476 528383 Fax: +44 2476 524182 ------ Subject: Workshop, Topics in nonlinear dynamics From: sicc Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 15:30:16 -0700 11th SICC International Tutorial Workshop on "Topics in nonlinear dynamics" << Paradigmatic Models in Social Sciences >> to be held on September 26-28, 2016 in Milano, Italy Organizers: Fabio Della Rossa, Fabio Dercole, and Sergio Rinaldi, Politecnico di Milano The workshop PMSS2016 offers a unique opportunity to meet researchers working across (and between) disciplines linked to mathematical modeling and social sciences. The program of invited contributions will show how the scientific approach of systems analysis, traditionally followed in physics and engineering, can be used to tackle social problems. A series of paradigmatic examples will be presented in a particular sequence that allows the main issues of nonlinear dynamics and networks theory to be introduced: from bistability to catastrophes, from stationary and cyclic to quasi-periodic and chaotic regimes, from the spreading of successful strategies to the emergence of clusters in networks. The workshop is the 11th of a series of tutorial workshops annually organized by the Italian Society of Chaos and Complexity (SICC) to explore the emergence of new research fields in which the modeling of nonlinear phenomena plays a growing role. These workshops have been traditionally devoted to an interdisciplinary audience with particular attention to PhD students and young researchers. In this spirit, PMSS2016 is addressed to researchers working in various areas of science and engineering and interested in applying mathematical modeling to social sciences. More information on the workshop can be found in the web page: http://pmss2016.deib.polimi.it Early registration at a discounted fee is available before July, 1st 2016. There is no registration deadline but we can only accept a limited number of attendants. Confirmed speakers: Francesco Calderoni, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Renato Casagrandi, Politecnico di Milano Jonathan Caulkins, Carnegie Mellon University Fabio Della Rossa, Politecnico di Milano Fabio Dercole, Politecnico di Milano Gustav Feichtinger, Vienna University of Technology Carlo Piccardi, Politecnico di Milano Jose-Manuel Rey, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Sergio Rinaldi, Politecnico di Milano Karl Sigmund, University of Vienna Lucia Tajoli, Politecnico di Milano Arne Traulsen, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Biology The workshop is kindly co-sponsored by: POLIMI-DEIB - Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis ------ Subject: Conference on Dynamics, Bifurcations, and Strange Attractors From: Dmitry Turaev Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 01:32:15 +0200 First Announcement of the conference "Dynamics, Bifurcations, and Strange Attractors - III" Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, July 18-22, 2015 Dear Colleagues, This is the first announcement of the 3d annual conference "Dynamics, Bifurcations, and Strange Attractors", which well be held in July 18-22, 2016. The conference is organized by the Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod as a part of the ongoing research project "Dynamics and bifurcations of dissipative and conservative systems" (2014-2016) funded by Russian Science Foundation. The themes of the conference include Bifurcations and strange attractors Hamiltonian and mixed dynamics Applications of dynamical systems The topics are inspired by many great contributions by L. Shilnikov to the field. In particular, we want to dedicate the conference to the 50 years anniversary of the discovery of spiral chaos. The conference will also feature a workshop offering introductory and advanced mini-courses for students, postdocs and interested researchers. If you would like to participate at the conference, please contact the organizers by email: sergey.gonchenko@mail.ru, lermanl@mm.unn.ru, ashilnikov@gsu.edu or dturaev@imperial.ac.uk. The conference will be followed by the Volga Neuroscience Meeting where the workshop Dynamics in Life Sciences is also supported by the same Russian Science Foundation project. The conference will be held on board of a river cruise ship, starting in St.Petersburg on July 24 and finishing in Nizhny Novgorod on July 30. Those willing to participate in the second conference please contact the organizers by e-mail: ashilnikov@gsu.edu, dturaev@imperial.ac.uk, or osipov@vmk.unn.ru. Sergey Gonchenko, Lev Lerman, Andrey Shilnikov, Dmitry Turaev ------ Subject: Postdoc position, Zaragoza From: Juan J Mazo Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:51:26 +0100 (CET) Dear friends and colleagues, I would be very grateful if you could redirect this announcement to interested candidates. We announce the openning of a Postdoctoral position in The Nonlinear and Statistical Physics Group at the University of Zaragoza. Candidate must show experience in theoretical and computational work and will be involved in the following research lines of the group: * Modeling friction at different scales * Dynamics and structure of proteins: mesoscopic and statistical mechanics models for protein folding and binding Interested candidates send a letter of interest and CV to the following e-mail: juanjo@unizar.es. The selection process continue until the position is filled. Thank you, Juan J. Mazo University of Zaragoza (Spain) ------ Subject: Postdoc Position, Sydney From: Thanh Tran Date: February 29, 2016 Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Fellow to work on an ARC Discovery Project awarded to Chief Investigators Assoc. Prof. Thanh Tran (UNSW Australia) and Prof. Beniamin Goldys (University of Sydney). The project is entitled "Novel approaches for problems with uncertainties". Applicants should have a PhD degree or be very close to completing one. Although an experience in the following areas of mathematics is preferred, candidates with strong qualifications in a relevant field of mathematics are encouraged to apply and will be carefully considered: 1) Numerical partial differential equations 2) Stochastic partial differential equations. The successful applicant will play a leading role within a collaborative research team and, in collaboration with other team members, is expected to publish in leading international journals. The position will be at UNSW, initially for a fixed-term of 1 year, but will likely be extended for a further period subject to availability of funding. The position is available for an immediate start. Additional information and application details can be found at https://applicant.hrm.unsw.edu.au/psp/hrm/NS_CAREERS/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_APP_SCHJOB.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=1&JobOpeningId=55561&PostingSeq=1 ------ Subject: Contents, Numerical Algebra, Control and Optimization 6:1 From: Liwei Ning Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 18:04:48 -0600 Numerical Algebra, Control and Optimization (NACO) Volume: 6, Number: 1 March 2016 http://aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=835 1. Balancing based model reduction for structured index-2 unstable descriptor systems with application to flow control Pages : 1 - 20 Peter Benner, Jens Saak and M. Monir Uddin 2. Optimal layer reinsurance on the maximization of the adjustment coefficient Pages : 21 - 34 Xuepeng Zhang and Zhibin Liang 3. Global proper efficiency and vector optimization with cone-arcwise connected set-valued maps Pages : 35 - 44 GuoLin Yu 4. A new convergence proof of augmented Lagrangian-based method with full Jacobian decomposition for structured variational inequalities Pages : 45 - 54 Xi-Hong Yan 5. Deflation by restriction for the inverse-free preconditioned Krylov subspace method Pages : 55 - 71 Qiao Liang and Qiang Ye 6. Projection-based model reduction for time-varying descriptor systems: New results Pages : 73 - 90 Mohammad-Sahadet Hossain