UK Nonlinear News

Issue Twenty Five: August 2001

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Articles and Reviews

• Book Review: Mathematical Models in Population Biology and Epidemiology

  By Geoffrey Aldis

• Book Review: Nonlinear Physics with Maple for Scientists and Engineers (2nd Edition)

  By Harvi Sidhu

• Book Review: Peyresq Lectures on Nonlinear Phenomena

  By Jeroen S.W. Lamb

• Book Review: Stable and Random Motions in Dynamical Systems

  By Sebastian Reich

• Book Review: Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems (3rd Edition)

  By Jane Sexton

• Report: Mathematical Biology in Nottingham
• Report: Sixth Siam Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems
• Report: Dynamics Days Dresden 2001
• Report: Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: where should we go from here?
• Report: Mathematical Theory of Nonlinear Control
• Report: Analyis and Continuation of Bifurcations
• Report: Lorenz Manifolds and Underground Posters featured in EPSRC Newsline July 2001
• 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:
  • Professor Ian Stewart elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society
  • Visitor to Heriot-Watt - Yuri V Brezhnev
• Awards: 
  • SIAM Awards New Prizes In Dynamical Systems
  • V.I. Arnold awarded the 2001 Wolf Prize in Mathematics (with S. Shelah)
• Appointments:
  • Mike Allen appointed as Director of the Centre for Scientific Computing, Warwick University
  • Alex Cheng, Celso Grebogi and Tomasz Kapitaniak appointed honorary professors at the Department of Engineering, Aberdeen University
  • Sean Oughton appointed to a lectureship at the University of Waikato
  • Postdoctoral Appointment - Dr Alexei Tsygvintsev
• Request for information: BES Computing Database
• Co-operation in Science and Technology (COST): Nonlinear Speech Processing
• Talk: Chaos in Medicine

Recent Theses, Jobs, and Publishers' Announcements

• Recent Theses
• A study of symmetric forced oscillators (University of Auckland)
• Situations Vacant in Non-Linear Mathematics:
  • Studentships (University of Leceister and Nottingham; Cranfield University, University of Oxford, University College London and Kings College London)
  • Postdoctoral Positions (University College London and Kings College London; Imperial College and Univerisity College London; Institute of Physics at Sao Paulo, Brazil)
  • Lectureships (University of Connecticut, USA)
  • Industry (KW Ltd, Surrey)
• Publishers' Announcements (UK Nonlinear News may carry reviews of these books in future issues).
  • WWW addresses for Publishers
  • New from Academic Press
    • Dynamical Models in Biology.
  • New from the American Mathematical Society
    • Topics in Nonlinear Functional Analysis.
  • New from Cambridge University Press
    • Elements of Mathematical Ecology
  • New from Springer
    • Diffusion and Ecological Problems (2nd edition)
    • Modelling and Simulation in Medicine and the Life Sciences (2nd edition).
    • Regular and Chaotic Oscillations.
    • Vibrations of Strongly Nonlinear Systems.
  • New from World Scientific
    • 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 .
• Article: A New Solution to the Three-Body Problem.
• Article: English translation of "Memoire sur les iteration des fonction rationelles" by Gaston Julia.
• New Journal: Dynamical Systems (formerly Dynamics and Stability of Systems)
• New Site: World Scientific Journals at WorldSciNet
• Special issue of Glasgow Mathematical Journal on ISLAND 1: Islay 1999 Integrable Systems: Linear and Nonlinear Dynamics

Meetings, Conferences and Events

Meetings and Conferences

• Conference Announcements.
  • Integrable Systems (July to December 2001, Newton Institute, Cambridge)
  • Informal working groupo on Dynamics of Numerics (7-10 August 2001, Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada).
  • Second International Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Summer School (13-25 August 2001, Lutherstadt Wittenberg)
  • Euromech Colloqium 425: Nonlinear Dynamics, Control and Condition Monitoring (20-24 August 2001, Aberdeen, Scotland)
  • Dynamics of Piecewise Isometries (23 August 2001, Universty of Exeter)
  • Workshop on Statistical Properties of Partially Hyperbolic Dynamical Systems (28th August-1 September 2001)
  • Mechanics and Symmetry Euro Summer School (2-15 September 2001, Peyresq, France)
  • Prospective School in Applied Mathematics (3-7 September 2001, Universidad de Cantabria-Ayuntamiento de Laredo, Spain)
  • NAFEMS Awareness Seminar: The Importance of Nonlinear Effects in Engineering Analysis (4 September 2001, The Institution of Mechanical Engineers)
  • 2nd Mathematics in Medicine Study Group: MMSG2001 (10-14 September 2001, University of Nottingham)
  • Piecewise-smooth dynamical systems (19th Sept 2001, University of Bristol)
  • International Workshop on Modeling and Identification of Continuous Nonlinear Dynamical Systems (23-26 September 2001, Freiburg, Germany)
  • Warwick Symposium on Geometry, Mechanics and Symmetry (September 2001-July 2002, University of Warwick)
  • From Worker to Colony: Understanding the Organisation of Insect Societies (7-8 December 2001, The Newton Institute, Cambridge)
  • 15th Annual Summer School of the Centre For Theoretical Physics: Topics in Nonlinear Dynamics, Collective Phenomena, and Complexity: Dynamical Model Formulation, Analysis, and Symmetry- Update (January 21 to February 1 2002)
  • ANZIAM 2002 The 38th Applied Mathematics Conference (2-6 February 2002, Rydges Eaglehawk Resort, Australia)
  • LMS Invited Lectures 2002 Random matrices, random permutations and matrix integrals (June 2002, University of Leeds)
  • 5th International Summer School/Conference: Let's Face Chaos Through Nonlinear Dynamics (30 June - 14 July 2002, University of Maribor, Slovenia)
  • Dynamical Methods for Differential Equations (4-7 September 2002, Castillo de la Mota, Valladolid, Spain)
  • 2002 and 2003 Dynamics Days conferences
• 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-Six: November 2001

Issue twenty-five is scheduled for 5th November 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 October.

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