UK Nonlinear News

Issue Nineteen: February 2000

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Articles and Reviews

• Book Review: The Illustrated Dictionary of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

  Reviewed by Ulrike Feudel

• Book Review: Nonlinear Systems: Analysis, Stability, and Control

  Reviewed by Thomas Schreiber

• Book Review: The Hierarchical Genome and Differentiation Waves

  Reviewed by Andrew Yates

• Book Review: Dynamical Systems and Numerical Analysis.

  Reviewed by Jaroslav Stark

• Report: Second meeting of the Skew-Products Scheme 3 Network

  By Matthew 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).

• 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
  • SIAM: SIAM Dynamical Systems Activity Group Elections.
  • Software: Visual Recurrence Analysis 4.2 released.
  • UKIE SIAM: 1999 Annual Report and current Financial Statement.

• Academic News:
  • Change of address for Professor S.M. Verduyn Lunel.
  • European Mathematics Society The Felix Klein Prize.
  • Appointments.
    • Postdoctoral appointment for David Schley
    • Hinke Osinga appointed to a lectureship at Exeter
  • Visits and Visitors.
    • Visit of Dr Yu Fedorov to Leeds (March-April 2000).
    • Visit of Professor Evgueni Sklyanin to Leeds (April-June 2000).
    • Visit of Professor Aneta Stefanovska to Lancaster (April-October 2000)

Recent Theses, Jobs, and Publishers' Announcements

• Recent Theses
  • The effects of time delays and nonlocal nonlinearities in population models (University of Surrey).
  • Shock Assisted Ventilation of Neonatal Lungs (University of Surrey)
  • Universal Method of Solving Non-Linear Programming Problems with Multiple-Optima Functions on Non-Convex and Non-Linked Zones and Solutions of nonlinear equations (Tomsk State Architectural University, Russia)
• Situations Vacant in Non-Linear Mathematics:
  • Studentships (Heriot-Watt University, LOCNET research training network, MAC network, MASIE research training network, Oxford University, University College London, University of Surrey).
  • Research Assistant (Oxford University).
  • Postdoctoral Fellowships (University of Exter, Hong Kong Baptist University, LOCNET research training network, MAC network, MASIE research training network, QMW).
  • Lectureship (Leiden University).
  • Chair (University of Geneva)
• Publishers' Announcements (UK Nonlinear News would like to carry reviews of these books in future issues).
  • WWW addresses for Publishers
  • New from Birkhauser
    • Nonlinear Physics with Maple for Scientists and Engineers.
  • New from John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
    • Introduction to Discrete Dynamical Systems and Chaos.
  • New from Kluwer Academic Publishers
    • Handbook of Semidefinite Programming
  • New from Oxford University Press
    • Nonlinear Science: Emergence and Dynamics of Coherent Structures
  • New from SIAM
    • Numerical Methods for Bifurcations of Dynamical Equilibrua.
  • New from Springer Verlag
    • An Introduction to Difference Equations (second edition).
    • Numerical Methods for Bifurcation Problems and Large-Scale Dynamical Systems
• A listing of publishers' announcements carried in previous issues of UK Nonlinear News is available.

Journal News

• Web Pages for Nonlinear Journals and Newsletters.
• Article: Beyond Simulation - Computing Chaotic Dynamics.
• Article: Aperiodic Dynamical Systems.
• Millenium Issues of Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
• New Journal: International Journal of Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (Update and job opening for copy editor)
• Newsletter Complexity Digest.
• Newsletter: Dynamic Notes Volume 1999.03.
• NONLINEARITY Contents list: Volume 13(1), January 2000
• Obituary Michael James Lighthill (1924-1998).

Meetings, Conferences and Events

Meetings and Conferences

• New Announcements This Issue.
• Workshop on Computational Molecular Dynamics (14th February 2000, University of Warwick).
• Third meeting of the Skew-Products Scheme 3 Network (16th February 2000, University of Surrey)
• Fourth Southeastern Bifurcation Workshop (8th March 2000, University of Cambridge).
• TUXEDO 99/00 (8th March 2000, University of Cambridge).
• Numerical Analysis of Random Dynamical Systems (15th March 2000, University of Warwick and 30th June 2000, University of Surrey).
• Conference on Nonlinear Problems in Applied Mathematics - Special Session on Nonlinear Waves and Integrable Systems (7th - 9th April 2000, University of Notre Dame)
• Mathematical Methods of Regular Dynamics (12th - 15th April 2000, University of Leeds)
• Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems - Fractals, Chaos, Phase Transitions, Self-organization (16th-19th May 2000, Minsk, Belarus)
• EUROATTRACTOR2000 (6th June - 15th June, 2000, Warsaw)
• 6th IMACS Conference on Applications of Computer Algebra (25th-28th June 2000, St Petersburg, Russia)
• Twentieth European Dynamics Days (25th June - 29th June 2000, University of Surrey)
• Sympoisum: Time Series and Applied Probability (28th June - 2nd July 2000, Canberra, Australia)
• Bifurcations: Numerical Methods, Software, Applications (29th -30th June 2000, University of Gent, Belgium)
• Pacific Rim Dynamical Systems Conference (9th - 13th August 2000, Maui, Hawaii)
• Ninth International Colloquium on Numerical Analysis and Computer Sciences with Applications (12th-17th August 2000, Plovdiv)
• Half-Day Workshop on "Travelling fronts and TUXEDO Meeting" (1st September 2000, University of Surrey)
• Mechanics and Symmetry Euro Summer Schools (3rd September - 16th September 2000, Peyresq, France).

• Conference Listing.

• Conference Announcements listed in Previous Issues
• Mathematical Interdisciplinary Research @ Warwick (Autumn 1999).
• TUXEDO 99/00 (1999-2000).
• Numerical Methods and Random Dynamical Systems (Spring-Autumn 2000).
• International Spring School on Fundamental Issues of Nonlinear Laser Dynamics (16th-19th April 2000, the Dutch island of Texel).
• BAMC 2000 (25th-28th April 2000, Manchester).
• Twentieth European Dynamics Days (25th-29th June 1999, University of Surrey).
• Bifurcations, Symmetry and Patterns (29 June-14 July 2000, Porto/Coimbra, Portugal)
• ICMP2000/DS2000 (17th-22th July 2000, Imperial College, London).
• NATO Advanced Workshop Dynamo and Dynamics, a Mathematical Challenge (21st-26th August 2000, Cargese, France).
• Water Waves 2001 (12th August-1st September 2001, Cambridge).

• 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.
• UK Symposia Web Site.

Issue Twenty: May 2000

Issue twenty is scheduled for 3rd May 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 28th April.

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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