UK Nonlinear News

Issue Twenty One: August 2000

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Articles and Reviews

• Book Review: Attractors, bifurcations and chaos: nonlinear phenomena in economics.

  Reviewed by Alan Wilson.

• Book Review: Introduction to Hamiltonian Fluid Dynamics and Stability Theory.

  Reviewed by A.P. Fordy.

• Book Review: Modulated Waves: Theory and Applications.

  Reviewed by G. Rowlands.

• Book Review: Numerical Methods for Bifurcations of Dynamical Equilibria.

  Reviewed by Kurt Lust

• Report: Molecular Simulation in the 21st Century.

  By Sebastian Reich.

• Report: Nonlinear Analysis:2000

  By Mary Pugh.

• Report: Qualitative Properties of Dissipative PDEs.

  By Michele Bartuccelli and Stephen Gourley.

• Report: Third meeting of the Skew-Products network

  By Matthew Nicol

• Report: Fourth meeting of the Skew-Products network

  By Matthew Nicol

• Nonlinear Science in Australia The Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematics Society (AustMS2000).

  Harvinder Sidhu's regular column.

• 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

• Academic:Honorary Degree for Martin Kruskal.
• Appointments:
  • New appointments at University College London.
  • David Wagg appointed to a 5 year Lectureship at the University of Bristol.
  • Peter Ashwin appointed to a readership at the University of Exeter.
• Control of Self-Organization in Nonequilibrium Chemical Systems.
• REACTOR --- Nonlinear Chemistry in Complex Reactors: Models and Experiments..
• The geometry of fitting sigmoidal-shaped nonlinear models.
• Mailing list: The email network of the Society for Mathematical Biology.
• Southern Bifurcation Meetings.
• Web: New web page for SIAM Dynamical Systems Activity Group.

Recent Theses, Jobs, and Publishers' Announcements

• Situations Vacant in Non-Linear Mathematics:
  • Studentships (MASIE Studentships, National University of Ireland, University College London, University of York)
  • Postdoctoral Positions (MASIE Postdoctoral Fellowships, Univeristy of Bristol/Loughborough, University of Florida, University of Nottingham, University of Oxford, University of Warwick)
  • Lectureship (Free University of Brussels, University of Bristol, University of Kent, UMIST)
  • Chair (University of Surrey)
• Publishers' Announcements (UK Nonlinear News may carry reviews of these books in future issues).
  • WWW addresses for Publishers
  • New from the American Mathematical Society
    • Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations and Wave Phenomena.
  • New from Birkhauser
    • Nonlinear Dynamics and Statistics
  • New from Cambridge University Press
    • An Introduction to Mathematical Physiology and Biology (2nd edition)
  • New From SIAM
    • Variational Methods in Nonlinear Elasticity
  • New from Springer-Verlag
    • Analysis and Simulation of Chaotic Systems (2nd edition).
    • The Geometry of Biological Time (2nd edition).
  • New from World Scientific
    • Chaotic Dynamics in Hamiltonian Systems with Applications to Celestial Mechanics.
• A listing of publishers' announcements carried in previous issues of UK Nonlinear News is available.

Journal News

• A listing of web pages for nonlinear journals and newsletters is kept at http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/Applied/news.dir/journals.html .
• Article: Blowup in Reaction-Diffusion Systems with Dissipation of Mass.
• Article: Stochastic Spatial Models.
• Dynamic Notes: New issue (2000.01) released.
• International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation - Contents list: Volume 1, Number 2, 2000.
• NONLINEARITY - Contents list: Volume 13(4), July 2000
• New Journal: International Journal of Nonlinear Modelling in Science and Engineering.

Meetings, Conferences and Events

Meetings and Conferences

• Conference Announcements.
  • Travelling Fronts and Patterns (1st Spetember 2000, University of Surrey)
  • International Workshop on Fluctuations and Superfluidity (2nd - 3rd September 2000, Lancaster, UK)
  • LMS/EPSRC Short Instructional Course in Mathematical Biology (4th - 8th September 2000, University of Nottingham)
  • Regular and Unstable Motions in Hamiltonian Systems (5th - 9th September 2000, Roma, Italy)
  • First Mathematics in Medicine Study Group (11th - 15th September 2000, University of Nottingham)
  • 6th International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks (3rd-5th November 2000, University of Maryland)
  • Evolutionary Epidemiology of Strain Structure in Pathogen Populations, (15-16th January 2001, Warwick).
  • Integrable Systems (July to December 2001, Newton Institute, Cambridge)
• Conference Listing.

• 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-Two: November 2000

Issue twenty-two is scheduled for 6th November 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 1st November.

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

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