Issue Eleven: February 1998

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Articles and Reviews

• Editorial: The Global Nonlinear Community.

  By Sakse Orstavik.

• The heartbeat: An Interdisciplinary Problem.

  By G.C. Chopra.

• UK and Republic of Ireland SIAM Section - Annual Meeting.

  By Alison Ramage.

• Review: From Calculus to Chaos - An Introduction to Dynamics.

  By John Brindley.

• Postscript files from AUTO.

  By Andy Edwards.

• Chaos, Nonlinearity, and Control: Report: Analysis of Piece-wise Smooth Systems and Their Applications.

  Mario di Bernardo's regular column.

• Current Activity in Dynamical Systems at the University of Warwick.

  By Sebastian van Strien.

• The Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences.

  By The Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences.

• Report: First Meeting of the Dynamics of Skew Products Network.

  By Matthew Nicol.

• Report: Second Meeting of the Dynamics of Skew Products Network.

  By Peter Ashwin.

• Report: IEE Colloquium on Signals, Systems and Chaos.

  By Stephen McLaughlin.

• New England Complex Systems Institute Activities in 1998.

  By New England Complex Systems Institute.

• A listing of reviews of nonlinear books can be found at

  http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/Applied/news.dir/issue7.dir/art/books.html (this article is periodically updated).

• A listing of Seminars in Applied Mathematics held in British Universities can be found at

  http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/Applied/news.dir/seminars.html

• WWW Links to other UK Groups can be found at

  http://www.ucl.ac.uk/CNDA/resources/uk.html

News

• The News Page
  • Nonlinear Quenching of Current Fluctuations in a Self-exciting Faraday Disk Dynamo
  • UK Dynamics Days Update.
  • Non-linear Effects in Materials and Structures: New Web Page.
  • Fractals and Chaos: An Illustrative Course.
  • Version 2.2 of C++ software package doubledouble released.
  • The Mathematical Biology of Pattern and Process: Deadlines.
• Academic News:
  • Giuseppe Gaeta leaves Loughborough (1 February 1998).
  • Selected Topics in Classical and Quantum Integrability: Postgraduate lecture course. (5 February 1998+, University of Leeds)
  • Update on East Midlands Mathematical Physics Seminars.
  • SIAM Student Paper Prize (This is a link to our previous issue.)
  • Appointments.
    • Stephen Cornell appointed to a postdoc at Cambridge.
    • Andy Edwards appointed to a postdoc at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
    • Mark Groves appointed to a lectureship at Loughborough

Recent Theses, Jobs, and Publishers' Announcements

• Recent Theses
  • Fixed Point Indices and Existence Theorems for Semilinear Equations in Cones by Casey T. Cremins (Glasgow University).
  • A Rational Dynamical-Systems Approach to Plankton Population Modelling by Andrew Edwards (Leeds University)
  • Bifurcations and instabilities in rotating two-layer fluids by Alistair Lovegrove (University of Oxford).
• Situations Vacant in Non-Linear Mathematics:
  • Studentships (Cambridge, Surrey)
  • Fellowships (Bath; Brigham Young University, United States; EC Postdoctoral Fellowships; Strathclyde; Texas, United States; Western Australia, United States.)
  • Lectureships (Cambridge; Edinburgh; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States; Surrey)
  • Chairs (Edinburgh, Liverpool)
• Publishers' Announcements (UK Nonlinear News would like to carry reviews of these books in future issues).
  • WWW addresses for Publishers
  • New from American Mathematical Society
    • Nonlinear Waves and Weak Turbulence.
    • Topological Dynamics and Applications.
  • New from Cambridge University Press
    • Fractals, Scaling and Growth far from Equilibrium. (2nd edition)
    • Nonlinear Time Series Analysis.
• A comprehensive listing of publishers' announcements carried in previous issues of UK Nonlinear News is available.

Journal News

• New editor of IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics.
• Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences.

Meetings, Conferences and Events

Announcements of Conferences and Meetings

• North British Differential Equations Seminar. (27 February 1998, Glasgow).
• TIMSAC (Time Series and Applications) Study Group meeting. (12 March 1998, London).
• Seventh International Conference on Numerical Combustion. (30 March - 1 April, York)
• British Applied Mathematics Colloquium. (6-9 April 1998, Uxbridge, England).
• Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems. (14-17 April 1998, Minsk, Belarus)
• UK Spatially Extended Dynamics Organisation Meeting (24 April 1998, London).
• Summer School on Nonlinear Phenomena . (1-6 June 1998, French Alps).
• Diffraction '98. (2-4 June 1998, St. Petersburg, Russia).
• Dynamical Systems and Small Divisors. (13-20 June 1998, Cetraro, Italy)
• School on Dynamical Systems: From Crystals to Chaos. (29 June - 4 July 1998, Marseilles, France)
• Conference on Dynamical Systems From Crystals to Chaos. (6-10 July 1998, Marseilles, France.)
• Mathematics and Physics of Higher-Dimensional Solitons. (20-30 July 1998, Durham)
• Nonlinear Analysis and Convex Analysis. (28-31 July 1998, Niigata, Japan)
• Modeling and Analysis in Medicine and Biology. (6-8 August 1998, Ann Arbor, USA)
• Symmetry and Perturbation Theory. (16-22 December 1998, Rome, Italy)

Conferences

• Conferences New This Issue.
• Conferences Listed in Previous Issues.

• Conference Announcements listed in Previous Issues
• Announcement: Seventh International Conference on Numerical Combustion (30 March-1st April 1998, York).
• Announcement: The Mathematical Biology of Pattern and Process (6-9 April 1998, Bath).
• Dynamics Special Session, BMC April 1998 (6-9 April 1998).
• Astrophysical and Geophysical Flows as Dynamical Systems (22 June to 28 August 1998.)

• A comprehensive listing of mathematics conferences is maintained by the American Mathematical Society.
• A list of Dynamical Systems Conferences is available at SUNY Stony Brook.
• A Dynamics Calendar is maintained at Muenchen (Germany).
• Netlib Mathematics and Computer Science Conferences Database.
• The SIAM Conference Schedule is a listing of meetings and conferences organised by SIAM.

Issue Twelve: May 1998

Issue Twelve is scheduled for 4th May 1998. Submission of news (new courses, meetings, conferences, new appointments, jobs, new research directions etc.), comments or articles about any aspect of nonlinearity in the UK are very welcome and should arrive by the Wednesday 29th April.

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