UK Nonlinear News, February 2001
A UK CytoCom Workshop to survey the growing range of mathematical and computational techniques used in the modelling of cell systems. Limited funds for travel, accommodation, etc. are available for UK residents (apply to the contact address below for details). See also the website http://www.ucl.ac.uk/CoMPLEX/activities/workshop_baigent.html
Workshop Theme
The great advances in molecular biology of recent decades have uncovered some of the details of cellular make-up. Today rapid advances in microarray and other bioinformatical technologies are providing us with detailed experimental data in vast quantities, and of a novel kind. As a result, we are now forced to rethink the way we build, validate and interpret models of cells and cell systems. The aim of this two-day workshop is to provide a brief survey of existing and emerging mathematical and computational methods that could help to move the modelling of cell systems into the data rich 21st century.
Topics we hope to cover:
Stochastic and deterministic approaches, dynamical systems theory, time series analysis, biochemical reaction theory, boolean networks, category theory, gene networks, protein-protein interactions, cell-cell interactions, cytokine networks, signalling cascades, cellular automata, multiple time scale analysis, systems theory, biological information transfer.
Speakers include:
| Michael Mackey | McGill University |
| Dennis Bray | Cambridge University |
| Robin Callard | CoMPLEX, UCL |
| David Broomhead | UMIST |
| David Fell | Oxford Brookes University |
| Cliburn Chan | CoMPLEX, UCL. |
| Mark Poolman | Oxford Brookes University |
| Olaf Wolkenhauer | UMIST |
| Tim Porter | Bangor University |
| Ray Paton | Liverpool University |
| Hamid Bolouri | Herts. University |
| Henggui Zhang | Leeds University |
| Silvia Nagl | CoMPLEX, UCL |
| Igor Goryanin | Glaxo SmithKline |
| Mike Holcombe | Sheffield University |
| David Gilbert | City University |
| Richard Tateson | British Telecomms |
How to Apply
To apply, reserve accommodation, or enquire about funding, etc., in the first instance please contact:
Justina Wokoma,
CoMPLEX Administrator,
CoMPLEX, UCL,
c/o Dept. Mathematics,
Gower Street,
LONDON WC1E 6BT,
email CoMPLEX@ucl.ac.uk,
Telephone: +44-(0)20-7679-2570,
Facsimile: +44-(0)20-7383-5519.
Dr Stephen Baigent
Wellcome Trust Biomathematics Fellow
CoMPLEX / Centre for Non-linear Dynamics and its Applications
University College London
Gower Street London WC1E 6BT
Tel. +44 20 7679 2727
Fax +44 20 7380 0986
The UK CytoCom Network is funded by the EPSRC.
Source: Stephen Baigent ( ucess29@ucl.ac.uk).
The third meeting in the series on bifurcation theory and related topics, funded by the London Mathematical Society under Scheme 3, takes place at the University of Exeter. The theme of the meeting is Nonlinear Dynamics & Control. Speakers are Ludwig Arnold (Bremen), Hugo van den Berg (Warwick), Hans Crauel (Ilmenau), and Henri Huijberts (QMW). For details see http://www.maths.ex.ac.uk/Research/applDSC/events/ndc.html or contact Hinke Osinga (hinke@maths.ex.ac.uk).
The aim of this meeting is to establish and enhance communication between the Control community, in particular Nonlinear Control Theory, and the Dynamical Systems community, in particular Bifurcation Theory. The idea is to formulate control problems in terms of a parameter-dependent "closed" dynamical system and focus on the control theoretical interpretation of the results obtained in this setting.
Further meetings will be at Bristol, Surrey and Southampton. See the web page http:/www.ma.ic.ac.uk/~jswlamb/sbtg.html for more information.
This workshop is sponsored by the LMS Southern Bifurcations joint research group.
Source: Hinke Osinga
The Centre for Nonlinear Studies at Leeds University will hold a one-day meeting on "The Dynamics of Continuum Systems" on Monday 19th March.
Confirmed speakers include:
The meeting will begin around midday.
For more details please contact Steve Tobias (smt@amsta.leeds.ac.uk) or Alastair Rucklidge (A.M.Rucklidge@leeds.ac.uk)
Source: Steve Tobias (smt@amsta.leeds.ac.uk)
| 9.30 -10.30 | Professor Alexandre Chorin (Mathematics, Berkeley) |
| Prediction, irreversibility and computability | |
| 10.30-11.15 | Coffee |
| 11.15-12.15 | Professor Jerzy Zabczyk (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw) |
| An introduction to stochastic evolution equations | |
| 12.15-1.45 | Lunch |
| 1.45-2.45 | Professor Arnaud Debussche (ENS Cachan-Bretagne) |
| Nonlinear dispersive waves perturbed by noise | |
| 2.45-3.45 | Professor Boris Rozovskii (University of Southern California) |
| Wiener chaos and stochastic numerics | |
| 3.45-4.30 | Tea |
| 4.30-5.30 | Professor Andrew Majda (Courant Institute, NYU) |
| Mathematical strategies for stochastic modelling in climate and other disciplines | |
| Wine and snacks |
This is part of the EPSRC funded meeting on Computational Stochastic Differential Equations, 26th - 31st March 2001
For further information contact:
Peta McAllister, Mathematics Research Centre, University of Warwick,
Coventry CV4 7AL
e-mail:
peta@maths.warwick.ac.uk
Telephone +44 (0)24 7652 4403 Fax: +44 (0)24 7652 3548
Source: Elaine Greaves Coelho ( elaine@maths.warwick.ac.uk)
Dynamics Days Europe is a major international conference aimed at covering the entire field of dynamics and nonlinearity. The XXI-st event in this tradition will take place in Dresden, sponsored by the Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems.
| Henry Abarbanel | Carlo Beenakker | Eshel Ben-Jacob |
| Bernold Fiedler | Haye Hinrichsen | Jon Keating |
| Detlef Lohse | Benoit Mandelbrot | Ingo Rehberg |
| Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber | Francisco Varela |
Apart from the plenary talks of general interest, there will be about 15 mini-symposia of two hours duration each, containing invited and contributed talks.
| space-time chaos, synchronisation | Hugues Chate |
| quantum chaos | Thomas Dittrich |
| pattern formation, complex growth | Heike Emmerich |
| biophysics | Erwin Frey |
| soft matter | Peter Grassberger |
| dynamical systems | Celso Grebogi |
| applications in engineering | Edvard Govekar |
| traffic and granular flow | Dirk Helbing |
| nonequilibrium statistical mechanics | Rainer Klages |
| neural and medical dynamics | Juergen Kurths |
| econophysics | Rosario Nunzio Mantegna |
| semiclassics | Bernhard Mehlig |
| turbulence | Itamar Procaccia |
| stochastic processes | Peter Reimann |
| time series analysis | Lenny Smith |
A very limited number of contributed oral presentations will be accepted, either as part of one of the minisymposia or a parallel session. Posters will be on display during the whole conference, but there will be also two special poster sessions.
Deadline for the submission of oral contributions and early registration:
*** 28 February 2001 ***
Further information and registration forms can be found at:
http://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de/~ddd2001.
Source: Thomas Schreiber ( schreibe@mpipks-dresden.mpg.de)
The aim of the meeting, organised by the Applied Nonlinear Mathematics Group in the Department of Engineering Mathematics at the University of Bristol, is to allow the next generation of nonlinear scientists to find an agenda for research directions of the future, focussed on three key themes:
Invited speakers are
| Paul Bressloff | Utah, USA |
| Bard Ermentrout | Pittsburgh, USA |
| Jack Cowan | Chicago, USA |
| John Guckenheimer | Cornell, USA |
| Edgar Knobloch | Leeds, UK |
| Yoshiki Kuramoto | Kyoto, Japan |
| Uwe An der Heiden | Witten, Germany |
| Robert McKay | Warwick, UK |
| Chris Jones | Brown, USA |
| Tom Mullin | Manchester, UK |
| William Ditto | Georgia Tech, USA |
| Raj Roy | Maryland, USA |
| Art Winfree | Arizona, USA |
| Matthias Fink | ESPCI, France |
| John Casti | Santa Fe Institute |
We are delighted that John Casti (Santa Fe Institute), author of `Five Golden Rules', and many other popular scientific volumes, has agreed to give a Public Lecture, sponsored by the Colston Research Society and Hewlett Packard.
The structure of the meeting will be talks of 45 minutes duration with lots of time for discussion; there will be no parallel sessions. Each main speaker is invited to give a talk that reflects on what their field has learnt from the explosion of interest in nonlinear dynamics and what needs to be learnt. The other participants will be required to present a poster on their work and to relate it to the theme of the meeting "Where should we go from here?" preferably in relation to one of the three themes. It is our intention that there will be provocative interaction between the invited speakers, and that this will provide an inspiring experience for the generation of young scientists who attend.
This will be an intense specialist meeting with approximately 70 people attending; participation will be by invitation only. Since one of the aims of the meeting is to inform debate amongst the next generation of scientists, priority will be given to current PhD students or those who have completed their PhD since 1990, although we welcome applications from anyone who is interested. Applications to attend are now invited; the closing date is 30 March 2001
For more details, please visit and bookmark the conference website at http://www.enm.bris.ac.uk/anm/colston.html
The organizing committee gratefully acknowledges the support of the Colston Research Society, EPSRC, and Hewlett Packard.
Source: Martin Homer
We wish to announce a new Gordon Research Conference in NONLINEAR SCIENCE. This will be an interdisciplinary conference focusing on applications of the methods and concepts from nonlinear dynamics to all areas of science. Special emphasis will be on experimental nonlinear systems, development of nonlinear applications and devices, and development of new nonlinear techniques aimed at addressing scientific issues.
The inaugural meeting of the GRC on Nonlinear Dynamics will cover a broad range of topics, although future meetings will have themes (determined by the conferees). Examples of topics for the 2001 conference include spatiotemporal dynamics, biological systems, fluid dynamics, dynamical systems theory, optical and solid states systems, complex systems, data analysis. We will also have several "outreach sessions" linking nonlinear dynamics with other areas of science.
Future mailings will follow with information on the program, submitting abstracts to be considered for short talks and posters, and application to Gordon Research Conferences to attend the meeting.
For further information please contact Ken Showalter ( kshowalt@wvu.edu) or Lou Pecora ( pecora@avnil.nrl.navy.mil) or visit the Gordon Research Conferences web site: http://www.grc.uri.edu.
Source: Lou Pecora ( pecora@avnil.nrl.navy.mil) .
First Announcement and Call for Participation 2nd European Interdisciplinary School on Nonlinear Dynamics for System and Signal Analysis EUROATTRACTOR2001 at the Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Eng. Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw, June 19 to June 28, 2001 EUROATTRACTOR 2001
EUROATTRACTOR2001 main topics
Language The official language of the EUROATTRACTOR Schools is English. The programme of each EUROATTRACTOR School includes:
EUROATTRACTOR2001 is supposed to bring together about 50 participants. Regular participation costs are: registration fee 200,- EUR; subsistence 500,- EUR. The Organizers will support up to 42 participants by financing/return of up to 100% of the following expenses: travel, subsistence (lodging in double rooms with full pension in our hotel facilities), registration fee. According to European Commission regles up to 30 participants of categories "A" and 2 of category "B" - young researchers (under 35) who are nationals of a EU Member State or an Associated State, mainly those active inside a Member State or an Associated State at the time of the School - may be supported by EU funds. Up to 10 participants from countries like Russia, Ukraine, Byelorussia, may be supported by funds from the Polish State Committee for Scientific Research. Please follow the instructions and observe the deadlines.
There will be a competition of participants' contributions - contributions will be subject to the referring procedure and the acceptance by the Organizing Committee whose decision about financing of the most highly qualified participants are final. The order of receiving the applications may also be taken into account, so return your Preliminary Registration Form with the detailed one-page single-spaced abstract of your contribution and necessary documents (4 copies of each, please) as soon as possible. Female participants are especially encouraged to apply. The age limit of young researchers is 35 years at the time of the School, but allowance may be made for childcare or compulsory military service.
Travel expenses will be reimbursed at the moment of the school by presenting a photocopy of the tickets (the upper limit of reimbursement will be set up by the Organizers), registration fees will also be reimbursed, subsistence (accommodation and meals) will be paid for those selected. You will have a really great opportunity to present your work, your results, as well as the scientific problems you have faced and your ideas in front of the interdisciplinary audience of both your colleagues from several countries and the leading scientists in the field. The accepted and selected communications will be published together with the lectures of Invited Lectures and Keynote Speakers. And you may get all these practically for free. Also at the end of the School Scientific Committee will award three most outstanding contributions with special prizes
International Scientific Committee:
Chairmen
Members
Local Organizing Committee:
Secretariat: Elzbieta OLEJARCZYK - Scientific Secretary Robert STEPIEN - Webmaster
Deadlines: Preliminary Registration Form with presentation abstract and other documents (4 copies of each, please) - February 07, 2001 You will be informed about acceptance of your contribution and the financing you may obtain before March 07, 2001 Full camera-ready version of your presentation, participation fees, hotel reservation - April 07, 2001 EUROATTRACTOR2001 - June 19 - June 28, 2001
Address for correspondence:
EUROATTRACTOR2001
Secretariat Lab. of Biosignal Analysis Fundamentals I.
Biocybernetics and Biomedical Eng.
Polish Academy of Sciences
4 Trojdena St.,
02-109 Warsaw,
Poland
Phones: (+ 48 22) 659-9143 ext. 313, 312; (+ 48 22) 659-7193;
Fax: (+ 48 22)659-7030
E-mail: euroattractor@hrabia.ibib.waw.pl
http://www.ibib.waw.pl/~euroattractor
This Workshop will focus on bifurcation theory of nonlinear dynamical systems and numerical methods for their analysis, with attention to not only to theoretical but also to algorithmic problems and with possibilities for software demonstrations. This workshop is a continuation of a series of Bifurcation Workshops held in 1993-97 at CWI, Amsterdam, and in 1998-2000 at Gent University, Belgium. Our intention is to bring together experts in bifurcation analysis from The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, UK, Russia, US and Canada, as well as young researchers from local universities. The total number of participants will be limited to 30, which allows to keep informal atmosphere of the meeting.
If you are interested , then send a short message to
kuznet@math.uu.nl.
specifying:
| Yuri Kuznetsov | Yu.Kuznetsov@math.uu.nl |
| Willy Govaerts | Willy.Govaerts@rug.ac.be |
Source: Willy Govaerts ( Willy.Govaerts@rug.ac.be).
This workshop is addressed to post-graduate students, PhD-students, and PostDocs interested in (at least) one of the topics of the workshop, and, more preferably, in their interplay. See the (first) announcement for the details of the scientific programme.
Financial support will be available. It is planned to cover all the participants' local expenses (accomodation and some pocket money) during their stay in Göttingen. There might be some chances that travel expenses will (partially) be reimbursed. However, that will depend on the final number of participants, and therefore further information can not be provided before February 15, 2001, which is the deadline for pre-registration. Consequently, everyone who is interested to join the workshop should pre-register in time!
For further information please contact the local organizing committee via e-mail:
or refer to the home page:
http://www.uni-math.gwdg.de/prodyn/
Local organizing committee:
Carmen Barann
Doris Fiebig
Hartje Kriete
Source: Hartje Kriete
The meeting will be held at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22,24 George Street, Edinburgh.
The main purpose of the meeting is to bring together leading experts in this broad and fast-moving area with the objective of highlighting recent important developments. Particular attention will be paid to developments in PDEs that relate to the sciences and other areas of mathematics such as geometry, the calculus of variations, dynamical systems and stochastic analysis.
Scientific Committee: J. M. Ball (Oxford) A. Grigoryan (Imperial College) S Kuksin (Heriot-Watt)
Key speakers will include: A. Bressan (Trieste) L. Caffarelli (Texas at Austin) J. Cheeger (Courant) G. Forni (Princeton) Em. Grenier (Lyon) M. Gromov (IHES) C. Kenig (Chicago) V. A. Kondratiev (Moscow) N. Krylov (Minneapolis) A. Kupiainen (Helsinki) F-H Lin (Courant) P-L. Lions (Paris) S. Muller (Leipzig) N. Nadirashvili (Chicago) F. Otto (Bonn) V. ?verak (Minneapolis) N. Trudinger (Canberra) M. I. Vishik (Moscow) S.T. Yau (Harvard)
The meeting is supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and The European Commission (Framework V).
The EC grant will provide support for scientists under 35 years of age from EU states. Financial support must be applied for using the forms on the home pages.
Further details, including an application form, can be found on the home pages: http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/icms/current/progpde/index.html
Source: Tracey Dart (tracey@maths.ed.ac.uk)
This meeting will focus on the geometry, dynamics and numerics of mechanical systems with symmetry and applications to areas such as atomic and molecular spectroscopy and continuum mechanics. It is being organised under the auspices of the EC Research Training Network "Mechanics and Symmetry in Europe" (MASIE) and is sponsored by CAMGSD (Lisbon), but is open to all scientists with interests in relevant areas.
The conference programme will include several minisymposia on, tentatively:
Contributions to these are particularly invited.
Participants will probably include:
For further information about the Conference, including how to register, see: http://www.math.ist.utl.pt/~edias/MASIE/GSMI or e-mail: gsmi@math.ist.utl.pt. and for information on related events and MASIE see: http://www.inln.cnrs.fr/~montaldi/MASIE/
Source: Mark Roberts (mark@maths.warwick.ac.uk)
The modern theory of integrability was created and developed over the last thirty years by a number of international research groups. Several approaches to integrable equations have been elaborated, which look quite different but focus on solutions of the same range of problems. One of the aims of this programme is to bring together key scientists with various background and expertise in order to elaborate a coherent view on the problem and to attempt to develop a synthetic theory which would reconcile the different approaches. This will be the first meeting on such a scale and we expect that mutual understanding of different approaches will cause a breakthrough in the whole theory of integrable equations and significantly extend its applications.
The following methods for studying integrability will be discussed
In addition the "dressing method", and its many variations, will be looked at as a technique for constructing and solving integrable systems. The topic of Quantum Integrability will also be addressed. Links between the classical dressing method and various approaches to quantum systems will be studied. A fundamental issue is a classification of algebraic and differential reductions ``inside'' the integrable systems which have been constructed.
For more information, visit http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/programs/its.html.
Source: Chris Eilbeck
| O. Agam | Jerusalem |
| J. Klafter | Tel Aviv |
| Y. Alhassid | New Haven |
| V. Kuzovkov | Riga |
| J. T. Chalker* | Oxford |
| G. Oshanin | Paris |
| B. Eckhardt | Marburg |
| M. Schreiber | Chemnitz |
| Y. Fyodorov N. Shnerb | London |
| N. Shnerb | Jerusalem |
| P. Grassberger | J"ulich |
| U. Smilansky | Rehovot |
| R. Hilfer | Stuttgart |
| I. M. Sokolov | Freiburg |
| H. Kantz | Dresden |
| M. Wilkinson | Milton Keynes |
* to be confirmed
Scientific coordinators
Bernhard Mehlig and Alexander Blumen
Faculty of Physics,
Hermann-Herder-Str. 3
79104 Freiburg, Germany
Fax: ++49-761-203-5883
E-mail: mehlig@tqd1.physik.uni-freiburg.de
The school is aimed at an international audience of students, graduate students and young PostDocs. The aim is to explain new ideas and to describe exciting areas of research in complex systems. The lecturers are asked especially to make their field of research accessible to non-specialists. The study of irregular motion in classical systems (turbulence, advective diffusion, reaction kinetics) using stochastic equations has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Quite independently, statistical methods have been very successfully used, in the past decade, to describe correlations in disordered or classically chaotic quantum systems. Recent developments in these fields show that there are promising links between these apparently very different areas of research. It is becoming increasingly important to be aware of developments in these two disciplines and and it is the goal of this summer school to bring together people from different backgrounds in order to stimulate cooperation in a cross-disciplinary environment.
Deadline for applications is March 1, 2001. Applicants are asked to fill out the application form available at http://tqd1.physik.uni-freiburg.de/~school/index.html
Successful applicants will receive free accomodation and meals. The registration fee is DM 200. Limited funds for further financial support are available.
Source: Bernhard Mehlig (school@tqd1.physik.uni-freiburg.de)
This is the second of two summer schools associated with the European
Research Training Network Mechanics and Symmetry In Europe (MASIE). It will
last 2 weeks and will consist of 6 principal lecture courses,
supplemented by a number of individual lectures on associated topics.
The summer school is partially funded by the European Union, with funds
available for travel and expenses for European Young Researchers. The
venue is the tiny picturesque village of Peyresq in the French Alps. The
six principal lecture courses are:
| Infinite Dimensional Lie Groups and Applications | Stephen Shkoller (UC Davis) |
| Phase Space Reduction and Reconstruction | Tudor Ratiu (Lausanne) and Matt Perlmutter (Massey/Caltech) |
| Multi-symplectic Geometry and Mechanics | Tom Bridges and Gianne Derks (Surrey) |
| Numerical Methods for Hamiltonian PDEs | Sebastian Reich (Imperial College) |
| Stability and Bifurcations of Relative Equilibria | Mark Roberts (Warwick/Surrey) and Claudia Wulff (Berlin/Warwick) |
| KAM theory and Nekhoroshev stability | Henk Broer (Groningen) and Franceso Fassò (Padova) |
Source: James Montaldi (montaldi@inln.cnrs.fr)
The 2001-2002 Warwick Symposium will be on "Geometric Mechanics and Symmetry". It will focus on the symplectic and differential geometry of symmetric Hamiltonian systems and applications of geometry, symmetry techniques and numerics to the classical, semiclassical and quantum mechanics of N-body problems (gravitational, atoms, molecules etc) and to continuum mechanics.
Programme of main events:
2001
Sept 2-15 Summer School on "Mechanics and Symmetry", Peyresq, France (see: http://www.inln.cnrs.fr/~montaldi/MASIE/MASESS/ )
Dec 9-15 Workshop on "Geometry and Symmetry in Continuum Mechanics"
2002
March 17-27 Spring School and Workshop on: "Semi-Classical and Quantum Multibody Problems"
April 14-20 Workshop on "Classical N-Body Problems and Applications"
July 21-27 Workshop on "Geometry, Symmetry and Mechanics"
These will be embedded in a year-long programme of research and seminars. It is anticipated that there will also be a number of shorter satellite meetings, including one on "Astrodynamics" at the University of Surrey.
The Symposium is organized by the Warwick Mathematics Research Centre. Primary funding is being provided by the EPSRC and by EC support for the Research Training Network "MASIE". Further information will appear at: http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/mrc/index.html.
Source: Mark Roberts (mark@maths.warwick.ac.uk)
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