UK Nonlinear News

Issue Twenty Six: November 2001

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Articles and Reviews

• Article: A Tribute to Ian Stewart

  By Marty Golubitsky.

• Book Review: Dynamical Systems with Applications to Maple.

  Reviewed by J.D. Meiss.

• Book Review: Evolution of Spontaneous Structures in Dissipative Continuous Systems.

  Reviewed by Alastair Rucklidge.

• Book Review: Analysis and Simulation of Chaotic Systems (Second Edition).

  Reviewed by Harvinder S. Sidhu.

• Report: Workshop on Dynamics of piecewise isometries.

  By Peter Ashwin .

• Report: Piecewise-smooth dynamical systems and their application.

  By Alan Champneys.

• Report: Global Analysis of Dynamical Systems: a workshop in honour of Floris Takens' sixtieth birthday.

  By David Chillingworth.

• Report: Patterns in Nonlinear Systems.

  By Paul Matthews.

• Report: Probabilistic methods in non-hyperbolic dynamics.

By Ian Melbourne and Matthew J. Nicol.

• Report: Modelling and Identification of Continuous Nonlinear Dynamical Systems.

  By Henning U. Voss.

• 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:
  • Center for the Study of Biocomplexity at the University of Notre Dame
  • Institute in systems science launched at National University of Ireland Maynooth
  • London Mathematical Society Invited Lecture Series: Pierre van Moerbeke .
  • Southern Bifurcation Group Update.
  • News from the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.
• Appointments:
  • Three postdoctoral appointments in applied mathematics in Leeds.
  • Recent appointments at the Mathematical Institute Oxford.
  • Appointments in Applied Analysis at the Mathematics Institute (University of Warwick)
  • Dr Steven Webb appointed as a Research Associate at Loughborough University.
  • Razvan Satnoianu appointed to a lectureship at City University.
  • Peter Bates moves to Michigan State University.
• Awards:
  • Arnol'd Receives 2001 Heineman Prize
  • Golubitsky and Stewart Receive Sunyer i Balaguer Prize.

Recent Theses, Jobs, and Publishers' Announcements

• Recent Theses
• The chaotic behaviour of geodesics in non-homogeneous vacuum pp-wave solutions (Eastern Mediterranean University, MSc thesis)
• Mode interactions in three-dimensional convection (University of Cambridge)
• Situations Vacant in Non-Linear Mathematics:
  • Studentships (Helsinki University, Finland; University of Exeter)
  • Postdoctoral Positions (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal; University of Warwick)
  • Lectureships (Michigan State University [Mathematical Biology]; Michigan State University [Mathematical Material Science]; University of Colorado; University of Surrey)
  • Miscellaneous (Doctoral Training in Theoretical and Applied Nonlinear Systems, 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
    • Geometric Asymptotics for Nonlinear PDE. I
    • Smooth Ergodic Theory and its Applications.
  • New from Birkhauser
    • Nonlinear Analysis and its Applications to Differential Equations
    • Nonlinear Physics with MATHEMATICA for Scientists and Engineers.
  • New from Cambridge University Press
    • Synchronization, A Universal Concept in Nonlinear Science
  • New from Springer
    • MathInsight 2002 .
• 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 .
• Invitation to write an article for Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series A.
• Free access to most popular nonlinear articles published in Physica D.
• New Journal: Fluctuation and Noise Letters
• New Journal: International Journal of Nonlinear Modelling in Science and Engineering
• Obituary: George Keith Batchelor and Daniel George Crighton.

Meetings, Conferences and Events

Meetings and Conferences

• Conference Announcements.
  • Integrable Systems (July to December 2001, Newton Institute, Cambridge)
  • Warwick Symposium on Geometry, Mechanics and Symmetry (September 2001-July 2002, University of Warwick)
  • Half-day meeting on Numerical Methods and Stochastic Simulation (December 7th 2001, University of Strathclyde)
  • From Worker to Colony: Understanding the Organisation of Insect Societies (7-8 December 2001, The Newton Institute, Cambridge)
  • One day meeting on Pattern formation in applications (17th December 2001, University of Cambridge).
  • Winter School on Nonlinear Phenomena in Communication Networks (3-16 January 2002, University of California, San Diego, USA)
  • SIAM UK and Ireland Annual Meeting (11th January 2002, University of Leeds)
  • 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)
  • Workshop on Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems (11-15th February 2002, Imperial College, London)
  • British Mathematical Colloquium and British Applied Mathematics Colloquium (7-12 April 2002, University of Warwick).
  • 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)
  • Summer School on "Cell migration and adhesion: the interface with tissue engineering" (2-6 September 2002, University of Nottingham) and 4rd Mathematics in Medicine Study Group (9-13 September 2002, University of Nottingham).
  • 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-Seven: February 2002

Issue Twenty-Seven is scheduled for 4th February 2002. 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 30th January.

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