Issue Fourteen: November 1998

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Articles and Reviews

• Nonlinear Science in Australia The Third Biennial Engineering Mathematics and Applications Conference EMAC'98.

  Harvinder Sidhu's regular column.

• Index of UK Nonlinear News 1-13

  By UK Nonlinear News.

• Book Review: Mathematical Models in the Applied Sciences.

  By Rob Seymour.

• Book Review: Partial Stability and Control.

  By Stuart Townley.

• Book Review: Structure of Dynamical Systems: A Symplectic View of Physics.

  By Mark Roberts.

• Report: 4th Workshop on Dynamics of Skew Products.

  By Matt Nicol.

• 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
  • Royal Society awards 1998 Hughes Medal to Professor Raymond Hide.
  • UKIE Siam Section Web Page.
  • LMS renews support for TUXEDO.
  • Seminar Series on Spatially-Extended Dynamics.
  • Informal Dynamics Seminars at the University of Warwick.
  • Short course on ``Computation and Chaos: modern methods in nonlinear dynamics'' .

• Academic News:
  • Appointments.
    • Martin Bees appointed to a lectureship at Surrey.
    • David Wagg appointed to a postdoc at Bristol
    .
    • Francis R. Austin appointed to a PhD studentship at Surrey.

Recent Theses, Jobs, and Publishers' Announcements

• Recent Theses
  • Aspects of the theory of inversion as applied to geophysical problems by Gordon Cooper (University of the Witwatersrand).
  • Non-Linear Instabilities in Rotating Multi-Body Systems by Paul A. Meehan (University of Queensland).
  • Recent Theses at Heriot-Watt University.
• Situations Vacant in Non-Linear Mathematics:
  • Studentships (Cornell University)
  • Research Assistant (Heriot-Watt, University of Warwick)
  • Postdoctoral Fellowships (State University of Sao Paulo, University of Aberdeen, University of Bristol, University of Colorado, University of Nottingham)
  • Lectureship (Brigham Young University, Durham University, Rutgers University/New Brunswick, University of Liverpool, University of Loughborough, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, University of Michigan, Uppsala University)
  • Readership (University of Surrey)
• Publishers' Announcements (UK Nonlinear News would like to carry reviews of these books in future issues).
  • WWW addresses for Publishers
  • New from the American Mathematical Society
    • Differential Equations with Applications to Biology.
    • Hyperbolic Equations and Frequency Interactions.
  • New from Birkhauser
    • Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers.
  • New from Cambridge University Press
    • Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory.
    • Introduction to Wave Propagation in Nonlinear Fluids and Solids.
  • New from Springer Verlag
    • Asymptotic Approaches in Nonlinear Dynamics.
    • Elements of Applied Bifurcation Theory (second edition).
    • Random Perturbations of Dynamical Systems (second edition).
  • 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.
• ``Snapshots of a Lively Character: Mary Lucy Cartwright, 1900-1998''.
• 50 Years since the world's first stored-program computer ran.
• ``Computer Simulation and Beyond --- for the 21st Century".
• RESEARCH-EXPOSITORY SURVEY: Symbolic dynamics and Markov partitions.
• RESEARCH REPORTS: The universal templates of Ghrist.
• Fifth issue of the IMA Forum for Mathematics in Medicine and Biology newsletter released. (This is a link to IMAMMB #5.)
• Nonlinearity offers multimedia features to authors.
• Nonlinearity 11(5): Table of Contents.
• Nonlinearity 11(6): Table of Contents.

Meetings, Conferences and Events

Meetings and Conferences

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

• Conference Announcements listed in Previous Issues
• Symmetry and Perturbation Theory. (16-22 December 1998, Rome, Italy)
• Computational Finance (CF99). (6-8 January 1999, New York).
• Combustion Meeting in Honour of Professor Brian F. Gray (11-12 February 1999, Mollymook, New South Wales, Australia).
• Dynamics Days Asia-Pacific (12-15 January 1999, Hong Kong).
• Equadiff 99 (1-7 August 1999, Berlin).

• 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 Fifteen: February 1999

Issue Fifteen is scheduled for 1st February 1999. 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 Wednesday 27th January.

All material should ideally should be sent by email to uk-nonl@ucl.ac.uk.

Format: submissions will be converted to HTML, so feel free to include any WWW links. We have an automatic converter for LaTeX, and for several other word processor formats. Plain text email is also fine.

If necessary, paper copy can instead be sent to
Dr. Jaroslav Stark,
UK Nonlinear News,
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University College London,
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London, WC1E 6BT, UK.
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