UK Nonlinear News, February 2000.
In Siam News 32(8), October 1999, pages 6-7, John Guckenheimer discusses some of his experiences, expresses some opinions, and speculates on research trends. His article is based around five examples from his research career.
John Guckenheimer has written a similar article called Computer Simulation and Beyond --- for the 21st Century for the American Mathematical Society.
Krystyna Kuperberg discusses the analysis of dynamical flows based on recent techniques of inserting plugs and twisted plugs in them. This article is based on her AWM Emmy Noether Lecture given at the Joint Meetings in San Antonio in January 1999.
Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 46, Number 9, October 1999, pages 1035-1040.
To mark the new Millennium, the Editor will produce three special volumes in which leading young scientists have been invited to review their field of work and to speculate about new developments that might emerge in the next Millennium. All articles are timely, topical, and will provide an unrivalled overview of current issues in the physical sciences.
One volume will be published in December 1999 and two in January 2000.
These special volumes will be illustrated with diagrams and photographs and will celebrate the journal's longevity whilst providing a unique snapshot of the future.
A theme issue entitled Combustion science at the end of the millennium has also been published separately.
Source: JMT Thompson
This new journal described in issue 18 of UK Nonlinear News was launched January 2000 by Dr Ji-Huan HE of Shanghai University. Scope, editorial board, subscription information and instructions for authors are available on http://www.cs.uky.edu/~jzhang/nsns.html.
The International Journal of Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation seeks a native English speaking copy editor for piece work. Contact Dr. He via glliu@yc.shu.edu.cn.
Source: Robert MacKay
Dean Le Baron, Trustee of the Santa Fe Institute, has provided funds to produce an electronic weekly newsletter, the Complexity Digest (ComDig) for free. ComDig informs about current development in areas related to complexity. Short summaries of recent publications for distribution in the newsletter are encouraged.
ComDig is archived on the web at http://www.comdig.org (still under development) with a mirror at http://www.comdig.de.
Source: Gottfried J. Mayer
The SIAM Activity Group on Dynamical Systems released Dynamica Notes Volume 1999.03 on 15th December. For more details send email to dyn@siam.org
Pages: C1--4, 1--322
| C1 | A E Hansen and P Tabeling |
| Coherent structures in two-dimensional decaying turbulence | |
| PAPERS | |
| 1 | J-P Eckmann, E Järvenpää and M Järvenpää |
| Porosities and dimensions of measures | |
| 19 | P Axelsson |
| Nonlinear wave interactions for ideal MHD plasmas | |
| 29 | T Ahn |
| Stable multisite periodic orbits in networks of weakly coupled bistable oscillators | |
| 43 | J Olwoch and D J Needham |
| Diffusion-driven blow-up in a reaction--diffusion model for n(>=1)th-order autocatalysis | |
| 77 | T Kapitula and J Rubin |
| Existence and stability of standing hole solutions to complex Ginzburg--Landau equations | |
| 113 | R Sturman and J Stark |
| Semi-uniform ergodic theorems and applications to forced systems | |
| 145 | S M Booker |
| A family of optimal excitations for inducing complex dynamics in planar dynamical systems | |
| 165 | A Kameyama |
| Julia sets of postcritically finite rational maps and topological self-similar sets | |
| 189 | D Huang and Z Liu |
| On the persistence of lower-dimensional invariant hyperbolic tori for smooth Hamiltonian systems | |
| 203 | H R Dullin, J D Meiss and D Sterling |
| Generic twistless bifurcations | |
| 225 | N Berglund |
| Control of dynamic Hopf bifurcations | |
| 249 | J Duchon and R Robert |
| Inertial energy dissipation for weak solutions of incompressible Euler and Navier--Stokes equations | |
| 257 | R S MacKay, S Slijepcevic and J Stark |
| Optimal scheduling in a periodic environmen | |
| 299 | Z-j Shang |
| Resonant and Diophantine step sizes in computing invariant tori of Hamiltonian systems | |
| 309 | D Bosio and F Vivaldi |
| Round-off errors and p-adic numbers |
Obituaries of James Lighthill written by David G. Crighton and R.J. Pedley appeared in Notices of the American Mathematical Society Volume 46, Number 10, November 1999, pages 1226-1229. The former is reprinted from The Independent, where it appeared on July 22 1998, and the latter from Mathematics Today, Volume 34, Number 6. An expanded version of the Pedley article can be found on the web at http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/imammb/lighthllbfd.htm.
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