Digest of the Non Linear Science Network, Volume 17, Number 02 February 1, 2017 Editor: Angel Jorba Topics: Summer School of Statistical Physics and Condensed Matter Summer course on Nonlinear Waves Summer School on Mathematical Modelling in Life Sciences Summer School, Satellite Dynamics and Space Missions Seventh Meeting on Celestial Mechanics - CELMEC VII Workshop, Wave propagation in complex domains Conference, Innovations in Wave Modelling 117th Statistical Mechanics Conference Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series S 10:2 Contents, Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis 16:2 Contents, Inverse Problems and Imaging 11:1 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: Summer School of Statistical Physics and Condensed Matter From: Beg Rohu Summer School Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 02:17:48 -0800 Dear Colleague, this is the announcement of the 2017 Beg Rohu summer school of statistical physics and condensed matter: Out of Equilibrium Dynamics, Evolution and Genetics Lectures: L.F. Cugliandolo: Out of Equilibrium Dynamics of Complex Systems D.S. Fisher: Evolutionary Dynamics of Large Populations Y.V. Fyodorov: Counting Equilibria in Complex Systems via Random Matrices D.R. Nelson: Population Genetics in Space and Time The school will take place from the 24th of July to the 5th of August 2017 at the French National Sailing School, on the peninsula of Quiberon in southern Brittany, France. More detailed information can be found on the school webpage: http://ipht.cea.fr/begrohu The deadline for application is the 15th of March. A special care will be devoted to pedagogy: there will be long series of lectures on the blackboard that will go progressively from the basics to the current research edge. Furthermore, there will be sailing lessons in the afternoon. We would be grateful if you would bring this announcement to the attention of PhD students, postdocs, young and senior researchers interested in statistical physics and condensed matter and transfer this announcement to other colleagues. Sincerely, Giulio Biroli, Chiara Cammarota, Marco Tarzia ------ Subject: Summer course on Nonlinear Waves From: Ricardo Carretero Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 10:12:15 -0800 Summer course on NONLINEAR WAVES: THEORY, APPLICATIONS, AND COMPUTATION. Kavala, Greece, Jul 23 - Aug 5, 2017. Application deadline: March 1st, 2017 Unbound Prometheus, a New York based academic company organizing intensive summer programs in the beautiful town of Kavala, northern Greece, in collaboration with the Technological and Educational Institute (TEI) of Kavala, is offering a summer course on Nonlinear Waves. The course is designed to introduce senior undergraduate and graduate students without previous background in the topic, to the exciting realm of Nonlinear Waves through a synergistic and hands-on combination of theory, applications and computations. Students will receive a transcript with the equivalent of 3 units (US) or 4.5 ECTS credits (Europe) from the (credited) Technological and Educational Institute (TEI) of Kavala, Greece. These units should be completely transferable to a US institution towards a 3 units upper division class for undergraduates or towards a 3 units introductory course for graduate students. The deadline for registration has been extended to March 1st, 2017. Full details can be found at http://unboundprometheus.com/ and a detailed syllabus for the Nonlinear Waves course is available at: http://unboundprometheus.com/s/SyllabusCarretero.pdf For further information about the summer program please write to info@unboundprometheus.com and/or for specific questions about the course please contact: Ricardo Carretero, Nonlinear Dynamical Systems group: http://nlds.sdsu.edu/ Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University, rcarretero@mail.sdsu.edu, http://www.rohan.sdsu.edu/~rcarrete ------ Subject: Summer School on Mathematical Modelling in Life Sciences From: Lisa Beck Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 17:35:36 +0100 Dear all, this is the first announcement for the summer school on Mathematical Modelling in Life Sciences, to be held at the Centro di Ricerca Matematica "E. De Giorgi" in Pisa, Italy, from September 13th to September 15th, 2017. The aim of the school is to introduce and discuss some recent developments in analytical and probabilistic modelling for life sciences. The school will feature two main courses, by Benoit Perthame (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris) and Sylvie Meleard (Ecole Polytechnique Universite Paris- Saclay), as well as additional lectures by Fran\c{c}ois Delarue (Universite de Nice). There will also be a limited number of short contributed talks by some of the participants. This summer school is intended for PhD students and young researchers, but open for everyone. Registration to the school is free, but compulsory for organisatorial purposes. Some funds are available to offer financial support to a limited number of selected students and young researchers (post-docs). The deadline for application is 29th June 2017.This school would not have been possible, without the support by Centro di Ricerca Matematica "E. De Giorgi", Universita di Pisa and GNAMPA-INdAM. More information and the registration form are available on the website http://www.crm.sns.it/event/409/ We are looking forward to seeing you in Pisa. The organisers, Lisa Beck, Luigi Amedeo Bianchi, Dirk Blomker, Franco Flandoli, Marco Romito, Dario Trevisan ------ Subject: Summer School, Satellite Dynamics and Space Missions From: Celestial Mechanics School Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 14:53:50 +0100 (CET) The school "Satellite Dynamics and Space Missions: Theory and Applications of Celestial Mechanics" will take place in San Martino al Cimino (Viterbo, Italy) during the period August 28 - September 2, 2017. Updated information and the list of invited speakers at the meeting site http://adams.dm.unipi.it/~simca/sdsm2017/ The school will cover the following subjects: - the theory and methods of Celestial Mechanics that underpin satellite dynamics and space mission design; - the dynamics of space mission design; - space exploration applications involving Astrodynamics. REGISTRATION The registration form can be filled starting from the meeting web site http://axp.mat.uniroma2.it/~celmec/formsdsm2017.html Participants are kindly requested to register WITHIN 10 MARCH 2017. Registrations will be accepted until all places are filled. Hotel reservations (except for the invited spekares) must be done *directly* to the Balletti Park Hotel by writing at info@balletti.com with subject SDSM2017. Double rooms cost 75.00 Euros per person and single rooms cost 89.00 Euros per person; they include breakfast, lunch and dinner. The prices are valid also for accompanying persons. No registration fee is requested. A limited number of fellowships giving partial support will be available. ------ Subject: Seventh Meeting on Celestial Mechanics - CELMEC VII From: CELMEC Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 13:00:52 +0100 (CET) The "Seventh Meeting on Celestial Mechanics - CELMEC VII" will take place in San Martino al Cimino (Viterbo, Italy) during the period 3-9 September 2017. Updated information and the list of invited speakers at the meeting site http://adams.dm.unipi.it/~simca/celmecVII/index.html The meeting will cover the following subjects: - PERTURBATION THEORIES (dynamical systems, their stability and evolution); - SOLAR, EXTRA-SOLAR AND STELLAR SYSTEMS (dynamics of solar system bodies, dynamics of exoplanets and stellar interactions); - FLIGHT DYNAMICS (motion of spacecraft for near-Earth and interplanetary missions). Contributed poster presentations are welcome. A limited number of short oral presentations will be also accepted. The registration procedure will also ask for the type, the title and the abstract of the eventual contributions. This information will be automatically sent to the organizing/scientific committee. PRIZES During CELMEC VII two kinds of prizes will be awarded: 1.- UNDER 35 ARTICLE PRIZE a prize will be awarded to the best work published in the last two years within the field of Celestial Mechanics. Eligible articles must have a young first author, i.e. under 35 years old. More details will be communicated by the next emails and/or at the meeting web site. 2.- CELMEC POSTER PRIZE a prize will be awarded to the best poster (including e-posters) presented at CELMEC VII. REGISTRATION The registration form can be filled starting from the meeting web site http://adams.dm.unipi.it/~simca/celmecVII/index.html Participants are kindly requested to register WITHIN 10 MARCH 2017. Registrations will be accepted until all places are filled. Hotel reservations (except for the invited spekares) must be done *directly* to the Balletti Park Hotel by writing at info@balletti.com with subject CELMEC. Double rooms cost 88.00 Euros per person and single rooms cost 102.00 Euros per person; they include breakfast, lunch and dinner. The prices are valid also for accompanying persons. No registration fee is requested. ------ Subject: Workshop, Wave propagation in complex domains From: David Hewett Date: January 17, 2017 Wave propagation in complex domains Thursday 30 March 2017 University College London A one-day workshop on the mathematical analysis and numerical simulation of wave propagation in complex domains. The workshop will have a special focus on scattering problems involving non-Lipschitz scatterers, including fractals. Speakers: Timo Betcke (UCL); Annalisa Buffa (EPFL); James Christian (Salford); Xavier Claeys (UPMC); David Hewett (UCL); Ralf Hiptmair (ETH); Andrea Moiola (Reading); Euan Spence (Bath); Chris Westbrook (Reading) Registration is free. Limited travel funding is available for students and young researchers without their own funding. Further details: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucahdhe/WaveScatteringWorkshop.htm ------ Subject: Conference, Innovations in Wave Modelling From: David Chappell Date: January 17, 2017 InnoWave 2017: Innovations in Wave Modelling 2017 12th-14th July 2017, Nottingham, UK http://nottinghamconferences.net/innowave/ Call for abstracts: Mathematicians, scientists and engineers who are interested in the theory and application of numerical modelling tools for complex wave dynamics are invited to submit an abstract for a contributed talk at InnoWave 2017. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is Friday 3rd March 2017. The conference is sponsored by the EU through the Marie Skiodowska-Curie Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways FP7 grant Mid-to-High Frequency Modelling of Vehicle Noise and Vibration (MHiVec), and will include a number of invited plenary talks as detailed on the conference website. More information can be found on the conference website http://nottinghamconferences.net/innowave/ For general enquiries please e-mail: bimowave@ntu.ac.uk ------ Subject: 117th Statistical Mechanics Conference From: Avishag Klatzkin Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 13:37:05 -0500 Dear Colleague: You are cordially invited to participate in the 115th Statistical Mechanics Conference at Rutgers University, May 7 - 9, 2017. At this meeting, we will celebrate the achievements of our guests of honor: Juerg Froehlich, Tom Spenser, and Herbert Spohn. A list of speakers will be included in the next announcement and will be posted on our website. Please register on our website both for attendance and for presenting a short talk.You will find there options to either pay online or pay at the door by cash or check. You may also register and mail your payment by check in advance. Visit our website at http://cmsr.rutgers.edu/news-events-cmsr/statistical-mechanics-conference/icalrepeat.detail/2017/05/07/1902/36|35/117th-statistical-mechanics-conference and select from the registration options listed. All details of the meeting (i.e. lodging, transportation, abstracts, etc.) are also posted on the website. Please let us know of any colleagues or students who should be added to our mailing list. Also, please send us information about positions wanted or available, etc. Looking forward to seeing you here. With best wishes, Joel Professor Joel L. Lebowitz lebowitz@math.rutgers.edu Center for Mathematical Sciences Research 110 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019 FAX: 732-445-4936 PHONE: 848-445-3117 ------ Subject: Contents, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series S 10:2 From: Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 10:19:59 +0800 (GMT+08:00) Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series S (DCDS-S) Volume 10, Number 2, April 2017 http://aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=926 Issue on diffusion on fractals and non-linear dynamics 1. Preface: Diffusion on fractals and non-linear dynamics Pages : i - iv Kurt Falk, Marc Kessebohmer, Tobias Henrik Oertel-Jager, Jens D. M. Rademacher and Tony Samuel 2. Spectral notions of aperiodic order Pages : 161 - 190 Michael Baake and Daniel Lenz 3. Stability of nonlinear waves: Pointwise estimates Pages : 191 - 211 Margaret Beck 4. A survey of complex dimensions, measurability, and the lattice/nonlattice dichotomy Pages : 213 - 240 Kristin Dettmers, Robert Giza, Rafael Morales, John A. Rock and Christina Knox 5. Random interval diffeomorphisms Pages : 241 - 272 Masoumeh Gharaei and Ale Jan Homburg 6. Homoclinic tangencies to resonant saddles and discrete Lorenz attractors Pages : 273 - 288 Sergey Gonchenko and Ivan Ovsyannikov 7. A family of self-avoiding random walks interpolating the loop-erased random walk and a self-avoiding walk on the Sierpinski gasket Pages : 289 - 311 Kumiko Hattori, Noriaki Ogo and Takafumi Otsuka 8. Stability index, uncertainty exponent, and thermodynamic formalism for intermingled basins of chaotic attractors Pages : 313 - 334 Gerhard Keller 9. A complex Ruelle-Perron-Frobenius theorem for infinite Markov shifts with applications to renewal theory Pages : 335 - 352 Marc Kessebohmer and Sabrina Kombrink 10. Derivatives of slippery Devil's staircases Pages : 353 - 365 Jun-Jie Miao and Sara Munday 11. Variational principles for the topological pressure of measurable potentials Pages : 367 - 394 Marc Rauch ------ Subject: Contents, Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis 16:2 From: Liwei Ning Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 17:10:48 -0600 Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis (CPAA) Volume: 16, Number: 2 March 2017 http://www.aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=924 1. Singular periodic solutions for the p-Laplacian in a punctured domain Pages : 373 - 392 Shanming Ji, Yutian Li, Rui Huang and Jingxue Yin 2. Long-term stability for KdV solitons in weighted Hs spaces Pages : 393 - 416 Brian Pigott and Sarah Raynor 3. Center conditions for generalized polynomial Kukles systems Pages : 417 - 425 Jaume Gine 4. Diffusive predator-prey models with stage structure on prey and Beddington-DeAngelis functional responses Pages : 427 - 441 Seong Lee and Inkyung Ahn 5. Existence and upper semicontinuity of (L2,Lq) pullback attractors for a stochastic p-Laplacian equation Pages : 443 - 473 Linfang Liu and Xianlong Fu 6. Estimates for eigenvalues of a system of elliptic equations with drift and of bi-drifting Laplacian Pages : 475 - 491 Feng Du and Adriano Cavalcante Bezerra 7. Multi-peak solutions for nonlinear Choquard equation with a general nonlinearity Pages : 493 - 512 Minbo Yang, Jianjun Zhang and Yimin Zhang 8. Liouville theorems for elliptic problems in variable exponent spaces Pages : 513 - 532 Sylwia Dudek and Iwona Skrzypczak 9. Asymptotic behavior of solutions to a nonlinear plate equation with memory Pages : 533 - 556 Yongqin Liu 10. Global dynamics of solutions with group invariance for the nonlinear Schrodinger equation Pages : 557 - 590 Takahisa Inui 11. Existence and stability of periodic solutions for relativistic singular equations Pages : 591 - 609 Jifeng Chu, Zaitao Liang, Fangfang Liao and Shiping Lu 12. The existence and nonexistence results of ground state nodal solutions for a Kirchhoff type problem Pages : 611 - 627 Xiao-Jing Zhong and Chun-Lei Tang 13. Regularity estimates for continuous solutions of alpha-convex balance laws Pages : 629 - 644 Laura Caravenna 14. S-shaped and broken S-shaped bifurcation curves for a multiparameter diffusive logistic problem with Holling type-III functional response Pages : 645 - 670 Tzung-Shin Yeh 15. A concentration phenomenon of the least energy solution to non-autonomous elliptic problems with a totally degenerate potential Pages : 671 - 698 Shun Kodama 16. A sustainability condition for stochastic forest model Pages : 699 718 Ton Viet Ta, Linh Thi Hoai Nguyen and Atsushi Yagi ------ Subject: Contents, Inverse Problems and Imaging 11:1 From: Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 09:57:08 +0800 (GMT+08:00) Inverse Problems and Imaging (IPI) Volume 11, Number 1, February 2017 http://aimsciences.org/journals/contentsListnew.jsp?pubID=925 1. Augmented Lagrangian method for an Euler's elastica based segmentation model that promotes convex contours Pages : 1 - 23 Egil Bae, Xue-Cheng Tai and Wei Zhu 2. A source time reversal method for seismicity induced by mining Pages : 25 - 45 Rodrigo I. Brevis, Jaime H. Ortega and David Pardo 3. On the set of metrics without local limiting Carleman weights Pages : 47 - 64 Pablo Angulo-Ardoy 4. Reducing spatially varying out-of-focus blur from natural image Pages : 65 - 85 Faming Fang, Fang Li and Tieyong Zeng 5. On the measurement operator for scattering in layered media Pages : 87 - 97 Peter C. Gibson 6. On finding an obstacle with the Leontovich boundary condition via the time domain enclosure method Pages : 99 - 123 Masaru Ikehata 7. Uniqueness for an inverse problem for a semilinear time-fractional diffusion equation Pages : 125 - 149 Jaan Janno and Kairi Kasemets 8. Non-linear Tikhonov regularization in Banach spaces for inverse scattering from anisotropic penetrable media Pages : 151 - 176 Armin Lechleiter and Marcel Rennoch 9. Foveated compressive imaging for low power vehicle fingerprinting and tracking in aerial imagery Pages : 177 - 202 Kang-Yu Ni, Shankar Rao and Yuri Owechko 10. Variational source conditions and stability estimates for inverse electromagnetic medium scattering problems Pages : 203 - 220 Frederic Weidling and Thorsten Hohage