UK Nonlinear News

Issue Twenty Eight: May 2002

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Articles and Reviews

• Article: Flow-and-diffusion structures (FDS) or how Turing patterns come to life.

  By Razvan Satnoianu.

• Book Review: Hard Ball Systems and the Lorentz Gas .

  Reviewed by Frank Berkshire.

• Book Review: Modelling and Simulation in Medicine and the Life Sciences.

  Reviewed by Geoffry Aldis.

• Report: B(A)MC 2002 Warwick.

  By Martin Dunwoody and Alistair Fitt

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• Report: Patterns, Nonlinear Dynamics and Applications (PANDA)

  By Jon Dawes

• Report: Nonlinear Mathematics and Applications

  By Roger Grimshaw

• Report: Joint workshop of `Nonlinear Pennine Triangle' and `Patterns, Nonlinear Dynamics and Applications'.

  By Alastair Rucklidge

• 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:
  • Applied Nonlinear Mathematics group at the University of Bristol awarded a £1M Major Multidisciplinary Research Grant.
  • Leonard Smith awarded the 2002 Selby Fellowship by the Australian Academy of Science.
  • MSc in Astrodynamics, University of Surrey.
  • Two New Senior Lecturers at Surrey
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• Appointments:
  • Bernd Kirchheim appointed to an Oxford University Lectureship in Nonlinear Analysis.
  • Claudia Wulff appointed as a Lecturer in Mathematics at Surrey.
• American Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
• Fitzroy Dearborn's Encyclopedia of Nonlinear Science.
• Launch of an Interdisciplinary Research Institute in Lille (France).
• NLS-NET: a free service for the nonlinear sciences community.

Recent Theses, Jobs, and Publishers' Announcements

• Recent Theses
• A bundle view of parameter-dependent boundary value problems (University of Surrey)
• Modelling dolphin hydrodynamics: the numerical analysis and hydrodynamic stability of flow past compliant surfaces (University of Surrey)
• Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions: Chaos and Stochastic Processes (Bologna University, Italy)
• Time scale interaction in low-order climate models (University of Utrecht)
• Situations Vacant in Non-Linear Mathematics:
  • Studentships (Hamilton Institute/DaimlerChrysler Research; UMIST; University of Nebraska)
  • Postdoctoral Positions (University of Bristol, University of Nebraska, Warwick University)
  • Lectureships (Imperial College London, Loughborough University, University of Manchester)
  • Chair (Imperial College London)
• Publishers' Announcements (UK Nonlinear News may carry reviews of these books in future issues).
  • WWW addresses for Publishers
  • New from the American Mathematical Society
    • Far-from-Equilibrium Dynamics .
    • Introduction to the Theory of Differential Inclusions.
  • New from Scator
    • Complex Adaptive Systems.
  • New from SIAM
    • Simulating, Analyzing, and Animating Dynamical Systems: A Guide to XPPAUT for Researchers and Students.
  • New from Springer
    • Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2000.
  • New from Wiley
    • Bayesian Methods for Nonlinear Classification and Regression.
  • New from World Scientific
    • Chaos in Circuits and 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 .
• Journal: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems.
• Journal: Invitation to Write an Article for Phil Trans A.
• New journal: Multiscale Modelling and Simulation.
• Special issue: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems.
• Table of Contents: Nonlinearity Volume 15(2), March 2002
• Table of Contents: Nonlinearity Volume 15(3), May 2002

Meetings, Conferences and Events

Meetings and Conferences

• Conference Announcements.
  • Warwick Symposium on Geometry, Mechanics and Symmetry (September 2001-July 2002, University of Warwick)
  • Oxford-Princeton Workshop on Multiscale Problems. (10-11 May 2002, Oxford University).
  • Southern Bifurcation Group Meeting on Geometry, Dynamics and Bifurcation. (10-11 May 2002, University of Southampton)
  • Foams, Fluids and Liquid Crystals: The Complexity of Fluid Motion. (13th May 2002, University of Manchester)
  • 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)
  • One-day Workshop on Differential Forms and their relatives in numerics. (7 June 2002, University of Surrey)
  • 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)
  • Pattern Formation and Nonlinear Dynamics (25th June 2002, University of Surrey).
  • 5th International Summer School/Conference: Let's Face Chaos Through Nonlinear Dynamics (30 June - 14 July 2002, University of Maribor, Slovenia)
  • Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Dynamics & Bifurcations (1-3 July 2002, University of Bristol).
  • 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 3rd 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-Nine: August 2002

Issue Twenty-Nine is scheduled for 5th August 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 31st July.

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