UK Nonlinear News

Issue Twenty Seven: February 2002

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Articles and Reviews

• Book Review: The Dynamics of Patterns .

  Reviewed by Rebecca Hoyle.

• Report: From Worker to Colony: Understanding the Organisation of Insect Societies

  By David Sumpter

• 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:
  The Warwick Dynamics Group applies for support to hold a year-long symposium in dynamics
  Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics and Applications set up at Loughborough University
  Visitors to the Lancaster nonlinear group
• New Course: MSc in Astrodynamics, University of Surrey
• Software: MATLAB Package for Bifurcation Analysis of DDEs
• Talk: Creating Health in a Capricious World: the role of chaos and complexity

Recent Theses, Jobs, and Publishers' Announcements

• Recent Theses
• On Continuous Limit Computation and on Bäcklund Transformations (University of Kent)
• Painlevé analysis and the study of continuous and discrete Painlevé equations (University of Kent)
• Modelling Nonlinear Dynamical Systems: Chaos, Uncertainty, and Error (University of Oxford)
• Modelling T Cell Activation (University College London)
• Situations Vacant in Non-Linear Mathematics:
  • Studentships (Durham University,Colorado State University)
  • Postdoctoral Positions (University of Saskatchewan, University College London,Université Libre Bruxelles)
  • Lectureships (MIT, USA)
  • Miscellaneous (Hamilton Institute, Ireland)
• Publishers' Announcements (UK Nonlinear News may carry reviews of these books in future issues).
  • WWW addresses for Publishers
  • New from the American Mathematical Society
    • Attractors for Equations of Mathematical Physics.
    • Lyapunov Exponents and Smooth Ergodic Theory.
    • A Stability Index Analysis of 1-D Patterns of the Gray-Scott Model.
  • New from Birkhauser
    • Selected Topics in Nonlinear Wave Mechanics.
  • New from Cambridge University Press
    • Restricted Orbit Equivalence of Discrete Amenable Groups
    • Numerical Recipes in C++ (2nd Edition)
  • New from Springer
    • Monotone Random Systems Theory and Applications
    • Rigidity in Dynamics and Geometry
  • New from Wiley
    • Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos (2nd Edition).
  • New from World Scientific
    • Nonlinear Diffusion Equations
• 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: Mathematical Challenges in Spatial Ecology.
• Journal: Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics
• Journal: Dynamical Systems: an International Journal
• Obituary: Jacques-Louis Lions.
• Special issue: International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos - Chaos Control and Synchronization.
• Special issue: Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics - Integrable Systems.
• Special issue: Dynamical Sytems: an International Journal - Non-smooth Dynamical Systems: theory and applications
• Special issue: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - Applications of Chaos in Modern Communication Systems
• Table of Conents: Nonlinearity Volume 15(1), January 2002

Meetings, Conferences and Events

Meetings and Conferences

• Conference Announcements.
  • Warwick Symposium on Geometry, Mechanics and Symmetry (September 2001-July 2002, University of Warwick)
  • Open meeting to mark the establishment of the Centre for Nonlinear Mathematics and Applications at Loughborough University (8 February, Loughborough University)
  • Workshop on Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems (11-15 February 2002, Imperial College, London)
  • Spring School and Workshop on Semiclassical and Quantum Multibody Problems (17 - 27 March 2002, University of Warwick)
  • Two-day meeting on Dynamics with Symmetry (25-26 March 2002, University of Leeds)
  • 43rd European Study Group with Industry (ESGI) (2-5 April 2002, Lancaster University)
  • British Mathematical Colloquium and British Applied Mathematics Colloquium (7-12 April 2002, University of Warwick)
  • Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems (Chaos, Fractals, Phase Transition, Self-organization) (14-17 May 2002, Belarus, Minsk)
  • Fronts, Fluctuations & Growth (19-24 May 2002, University of Michigan, USA)
  • LMS Invited Lectures 2002 Random matrices, random permutations and matrix integrals (June 2002, University of Leeds)
  • GRC on Theoretical Biology & Biomathematics (9-14 June 2002, Tilton School, New Hampshire, USA)
  • Euroattractor2002 - European Interdisciplinary School on Nonlinear Dynamics for System and Signal Analysis (18-27 June 2002, Warsaw, Poland)
  • 5th International Summer School/Conference: Let's Face Chaos Through Nonlinear Dynamics (30 June - 14 July 2002, University of Maribor, Slovenia)
  • Biomathematics Euro Summer School: Dynamical Systems in Physiology and Medicine (8-19 July 2002, Urbino, Italy)
  • Society for Mathematical Biology 2002 Annual Meeting (14-16 July 2002, University of Tennessee in Knoxville, USA)
  • XXII Dynamics Days Europe 2002 (15-19 July 2002, Heidelberg, Germany)
  • Tenth International Congress on Computational and Applied Mathematics (22-26 July 2002, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
  • Microscopic Chaos and Transport in Many-Particle Systems (Workshop 12-18 August 2002, Seminar 5 - 25 August 2002, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany)
  • The 7th Experimental Chaos Conference (25-29 August 2002, San Diego, USA)
  • 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).
  • Dynamical Methods for Differential Equations (4-7 September 2002, Castillo de la Mota, Valladolid, Spain)
  • Program on Bio-molecular Networks (6 January - 28 March 2003, University of California Santa Barbara)
  • 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-Eight: May 2002

Issue Twenty-Eight is scheduled for 6th May 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 1st May.

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

Format: submissions will be converted to HTML, so feel free to include any WWW links. We have an automatic converter for LaTeX, and for several other word processor formats. Plain text email is also fine.

If necessary, paper copy can instead be sent to
Professor Jaroslav Stark,
UK Nonlinear News,
Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics and its Applications,
University College London,
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London, WC1E 6BT, UK.
Facsimile: 020-7380-0986.

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