UK Nonlinear News

Issue Twenty Two: November 2000

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Articles and Reviews

• Editorial: Update on the Global Nonlinear Community

  By Cliburn Chan

• Book Review: Autoparametric resonance in mechanical systems.

  Reviewed by Alan Champneys.

• Book Review: Dynamical Systems, Ergodic Theory and Applications.

  Reviewed by Stefano Luzzatto .

• Book Review: From order to chaos II. Essays: Critical, Chaotic and Otherwise.

  Reviewed by C. Beck.

• Book Review: Lie algebraic methods in integrable systems.

  Reviewed by A.P. Fordy.

• Book Review: Mathematical Physiology.

  Reviewed by Jaroslav Stark.

• Report: Twentieth European Dynamics Days 2000.

  By Peter Ashwin.

• Report: Nonlinearity Meeting.

  By Predrag Cvitanovic.

• Report: International Workshop on Flucturations and Superfluidity.

  By Peter McClintock .

• Report: SIAM Pacific Rim Dynamical Systems 2000 Conference.

  By Rodney Weber.

• 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 Evgueni SKLYANIN to visit University of Leeds as Leverhulme Visiting Professor
• Appointments:
  • Recent appointments in the Department of Mathematics, Heriot-Watt University.
  • Recent appointments in the Lancaster nonlinear laboratory.
  • Two new lecturers in mathematics at Surrey.
  • Ciprian D. Coman appointed to a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Exeter.
  • Xiaofan Wang appointed to a postdoctoral research assistant at the University of Bristol.
  • Alistair Rucklidge appointed to a lectureship at the University of Leeds.
• International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme : Non-Linear Responses and Surprises.
• Modern Applications of Mathematics: A new MSc at Bath.
• New Prizes Announced for SIAM Dynamical Systems Activity Group.
• Preventing Premature Heart Disease: From evidence to chaos.
• New research centre: Centre for Chaos Control and Synchronization.
• Web: European Science Foundation Programme: Probabilistic Methods in Non-Hyperbolic Dynamics.

Recent Theses, Jobs, and Publishers' Announcements

• Recent Theses
  • Forced Symmetry-Breaking as a Mechanism for Bursting (University of California, Berkeley)
  • Reaction-Diffusion Patterns on Growing Domains (University of Oxford)
• Situations Vacant in Non-Linear Mathematics:
  • Studentships (Universities of Notre Dame and Emory)
  • Visiting Positions (University of Brussels, Belgium; Universities of Notre Dame, Missouri, Emory and New York Medical College, USA;)
  • Postdoctoral Positions (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal; Universities of Notre Dame, Missouri, Emory and New York Medical College, USA; University of Utah, USA; University of Utrecht, the Netherlands)
  • Lectureship (University of Canterbury, New Zealand; University of Notre Dame, USA)
• Publishers' Announcements (UK Nonlinear News may carry reviews of these books in future issues).
  • WWW addresses for Publishers
  • New from Birkhauser
    • Dynamical Systems with Applications using Maple.
    • Elements of Nonlinear Analysis
  • New from Cambridge University Press
    • Descriptive Set Theory and Dynamical Systems
  • New from Springer-Verlag
    • Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems (3rd edition).
    • Dynamics of Evolutionary Equations.
    • A First Course in Discrete Dynamical Systems (second edition).
    • An Introduction to Hybrid Dynamical Systems.
    • Mathematical Models for Biological Pattern Formation.
    • Multiple-Time-Scale in Dynamical Systems.
    • Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications.
    • Non-smooth Dynamical Systems.
• 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 .
• Backlog of Mathematics Research Journals.
• Approved Comparative Pricing Data for Journals to Be Available Online.
• Call for papers: Applications of Chaos in modern communication systems.
• Dynamic Notes: New issue (2000.02) released.
• Dynamical Systems and Applications.
• Relaunch of Journal of Mathematical Biology.
• NONLINEARITY - Contents list: Volume 13(5&6), September & November 2000
• New Journal: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (series B).

Meetings, Conferences and Events

Meetings and Conferences

• Conference Announcements.
  • Nonlinear Mechanics, (6th November 2000, University of Bath).
  • Topological methods in the physical sciences, (15-16 November 2000, Royal Society of London).
  • Symmetries in Atoms and Molecules, (24 November 2000, University of Nottingham).
  • Spatially Extended Dynamics, (4 December 2000, University of Warwick).
  • Southern Bifurcation Meetings (6th December 2000, Imperial College, London).
  • Evolutionary Epidemiology of Strain Structure in Pathogen Populations, (15-16th January 2001, Warwick).
  • Modelling Cell Systems: The Post Genomic Challenge (15 - 16 February 2001)
  • Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics in Control Theory (5 March 2001, University of Exeter)
  • Gordon Research Conference: Nonlinear Science (17-22 June 2001)
  • 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-Three: February 2001

Issue twenty-three is scheduled for 5th February 2001. 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 31st January.

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

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