Issue Twelve: May 1998

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Articles and Reviews

• Mixing with Chaos

  By Greg King.

• Backlog of Applied Mathematics Research.

  By Sakse Orstavik.

• Review: " Chaos, Fractals, and Noise" and "Stochastic Aspects of Dynamics"

  By Jaroslav Stark.

• Report: Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM'98) Conference and Fire Analysis Group Meeting.

  By Harvinder Sidhu.

• The Hierarchical Genome

  By Richard Gordon.

• 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
  • Dynamic Days 1998 registration form now available!.
  • Fractal World Exhibition.
  • David Silvester elected Secretary and Treasurer of UKIE SIAM.
  • Student Travel Awards For 1998 SIAM Conferences.
  • Holomorphic Dynamics Video.
  • Dynamical Medicine.
  • The xxx math e-print archive.
• Academic News:
  • Sebastian van Strien and Michael Benedicks awarded ESF grant.
  • Graduation Project in Nonlinear Analysis of Electronic Oscillators.
  • Appointments.
    • EC Postdoctoral Appointments to the Cambridge node of the GB team of the EC network on Nonlinear dynamics and statistical physics of spatially extended systems.
    • Jan Kristensen appointed to a postdoc at Oxford.
    • Bernhardt Pilgram and Michael Small appointed to postdocs at the University of Western Australia.
    • Andrew Yool appointed to a postdoc at Southampton.
    • Steve Coombes appointed to a lectureship at Loughborough.
    • Sebastian Reich appointed to the Foundation Lectureship in Mathematics at Surrey.
    • Paul Bressloff appointed to a Personal Chair at Loughborough.
    • Mark Michaels appointed to Center for Parkland College, in Champaign, Illinois.
  • Visits and Visitors.
    • Michael Bialy visits Cambridge.
    • Alex Craik visis the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University.

Recent Theses, Jobs, and Publishers' Announcements

• Recent Theses
  • Construction of Molecular Dynamics Like Cellular Automata Models for Simulation of Compressible Fluid Dynamic Systems by Himanshu Agrawal (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur).
  • Chaotic Vibrations of Heated plates by Muge Fermen-Coker (University of Dayton, USA).
  • The Dynamics of Open-Ocean Plankton Ecosystem Models by Andrew Yool (University of Warwick).
• Situations Vacant in Non-Linear Mathematics:
  • Studentships (Aberdeen,Dundee, Napier, Oxford, UMIST, Warwick)
  • Fellowships (Brigham Young University, EU Postdoctoral Fellowships, Max-Planck Institute, UMIST)
  • Lectureships (Nottingham,Sussex)
• Publishers' Announcements (UK Nonlinear News would like to carry reviews of these books in future issues).
  • WWW addresses for Publishers
  • New from Cambridge University Press
    • Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaotic and Complex Systems.
  • New from Springer-Verlag
    • Dynamics: Numerical Exploration.
    • Symbolic Dynamics.
• A comprehensive listing of publishers' announcements carried in previous issues of UK Nonlinear News is available.

Journal News

• Web Pages for Nonlinear Journals and Newsletters.
• New Editor of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences).
• New issue of IMA Forum for Mathematics in Medicine and Biology released.
• Special issue of Multiple-Valued Logic.
• Nonlinearity: 5 year archive now online.
• Regular and Chaotic Dynamics .
• SIAM News online.

Meetings, Conferences and Events

Announcements of Conferences and Meetings

• Time Series and Applications Study Group Meeting (14 May 1998 and 18 June 1998, London).
• 3rd TUXEDO meeting: Spatially Extended Dynamical Systems (22 May 1998, London).
• Complex Analysis and Dynamical Systems (22-23 May 1998, London).
• Nonlinear Pulmonary and Cardiovascular Fluid Flows. (3rd June 1998, University of Surrey)
• Workshop on Skew Product Systems. (5 June 1998, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London).
• Workshop on Periodic Orbits in Biology, (11-12 July 1998, Fairfax, VA, USA).
• Integrability: the Seiberg-Witten and Whitham Equations (14-19 September 1998, Edinburgh).
• Stochastic and Chaotic Dynamics in the Lakes . (16-20 August 1999, Ambleside).

Conferences

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

• Conference Announcements listed in Previous Issues
• Diffraction '98. (2-4 June 1998, St. Petersburg, Russia).
• Dynamical Systems and Small Divisors. (13-20 June 1998, Cetraro, Italy)
• Astrophysical and Geophysical Flows as Dynamical Systems (22 June to 28 August 1998.)
• Summer School on Nonlinear Phenomena
• 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)

• 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 Thirteen: August 1998

Issue Thirteen is scheduled for 3rd August 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 July.

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