UK Nonlinear News

Issue Eighteen: November 1999

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Articles and Reviews

• Article: A Tribute to John Brindley.

  By John Ockendon and Graeme Wake.

• Article: EMIS - the offer of EMS in electronic information and communication in mathematics.

  By Bernd Wegner.

• Article: Zentralblatt MATH - The Core European Database in Mathematics.

  By Bernd Wegner.

• Book Review: Chaos for Engineers: Theory, Applications, and Control.

  Reviewed by Thomas Schreiber

• Report: Stochaos -- Stochastic and Chaotic Dynamics in the Lakes .

  By Peter McClintock.

• Report: Foundations of Computational Mathematics.

  By Chris Budd and Andrew Stuart.

• 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).

• An index of UK Nonlinear News can be found at

  http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/Applied/news.dir/uknonl-index.html.

• WWW Links to other UK Groups can be found at

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

News

• The News Page
  • Reviews of the fourth ICIAM.
  • Award: Stuart S. Antman and John M. Ball awarded con Kármán Prize.
  • Award: Graeme Wake awarded New Zealand Association of Scientists' Marsden Medal for 1999.
  • Call for proposals from the Maxwell Institute.
  • Review: John Hogan reviews 15 publications on the applications of nonlinear dynamics.
  • Software: Visual Recurrence Analysis 4.0 released.

• Academic News:
  • New seminar series at Loughborough.
  • Appointments.
    • Postdoctoral Appointments for Ricardo Carretero and Alexandra Chavez-Ross.
    • Six new appointments at Loughborough.
    • David Kay appointed to a lectureship at Sussex.
    • New appointments at UMIST.
  • Visits and Visitors.
    • Visit of Paul Bressloff to Chicago.
    • Visit of Dr Jiazhong Yang to Imperial College (November 1999-January 2000).
    • Visit of Professor Erik S Van Vleck to Sussex (January-June 2000).

Recent Theses, Jobs, and Publishers' Announcements

• Recent Theses
  • Follicle Selection Dynamics in the Mammalian Ovary by M.A. Ch'avez-Ross (University College London).
  • The Forced Vibration of a Partially Delaminated Beam by Roger P. Menday (University of Loughborough).
  • POD-Galerkin Modelling of the Martian Atmosphere by Stephen G. Whitehouse (Oxford).
  • Qualitative Approximation to Study of Nonlinear Dynamic Applications to Time Series Analysis: A Simulation Study by Ana María López Jiménez (University of Seville, Spain).
• Situations Vacant in Non-Linear Mathematics:
  • Studentships (Leeds, LOCNET research training network, MASIE research training network).
  • Postdoctoral Fellowships (Colorado, Georgia Institute of Technology, LOCNET research research training network, MASIE research training network, Northwestern University, University of Canterbury).
  • Lectureship (University of Michigan).
• Publishers' Announcements (UK Nonlinear News would like to carry reviews of these books in future issues).
  • WWW addresses for Publishers
  • New from Springer Verlag
    • Bifurcations and Catastrophes.
    • Fractals: Theory and Applications in Engineering.
    • Noise in Spatially Extended Systems.
    • Nonlinear Systems: Analysis, Stability and Control.
    • Nonsmooth Mechanics (second edition).
    • Ordinary Differential Equations with Applications.
  • A listing of publishers' announcements carried in previous issues of UK Nonlinear News is available.

Journal News

• Web Pages for Nonlinear Journals and Newsletters.
• New Journal: International Journal of Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation.
• Dynamics Notes: Volume 1999 Number 2 released.
• Special issue of International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos on: Control and Synchronization of Chaotic Systems (March/April 2000).
• NONLINEARITY Contents list: Volume 12(5), September 1999.
• NONLINEARITY Contents list: Volume 12(6), November 1999.

Meetings, Conferences and Events

Meetings and Conferences

• New Announcements This Issue.
• Mathematical Interdisciplinary Research @ Warwick (Autumn 1999).
• TUXEDO 99/00 (1999-2000).
• Workshop on mathematical modelling of problems in combustion (17 November 1999, Leeds).
• London Dynamics Seminar & Meeting of Southeastern Bifurcation Theory Group (1 December 1999, Imperial College).
• CNLS workshop on Mathematics and computational physics of distributed nonlinear systems, (13-14 December 1999, Leeds).
• Numerical Methods and Random Dynamical Systems (Spring-Autumn 2000).
• International Spring School on Fundamental Issues of Nonlinear Laser Dynamics (16-19 April 2000, the Dutch island of Texel).
• Twentieth European Dynamics Days (25-29 June 1999, University of Surrey).
• ICMP2000/DS2000 (17-22 July 2000, Imperial College, London).
• NATO Advanced Workshop Dynamo and Dynamics, a Mathematical Challenge (21-26 August 2000, Cargese, France).
• Water Waves 2001 (12 August-1 September 2001, Cambridge).
• Conference Listing.

• Conference Announcements listed in Previous Issues
• 2nd Workshop on Time-Reversal Symmetry in Dynamical Systems (1-3rd December 1999, Imperial College, London).
• BAMC 2000 (25-28th April 2000, Manchester).

• 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 Nineteen: February 2000

Issue nineteen is scheduled for 7th February 2000. 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 2nd February.

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
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UK Nonlinear News,
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