UK Nonlinear News

Issue Twenty Nine: August 2002

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Articles and Reviews

• Book Review: Complex Adaptive Systems.

  Reviewed by Rodney Weber.

• Book Review: The Geometry of Biological Time.

  Reviewed by Martin Bees.

• Book Review: Introduction to Experimental Nonlinear Dynamics.

  Reviewed by John Hogan.

• Book Review: Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos (2nd edition).

  Reviewed by John Hogan.

• Book Review: Small Worlds.

  Reviewed by Jaroslav Stark.

• Report: Differential Forms and Their Relatives in Numerics.

  By Tom Bridges.

• Report: Fourth International Conference on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations.

  By Shouchuan Hu.

• Report: Workshop on Dynamical Systems Methods in Nonlinear Wave Equations.

  By Vassilis Rothos.

• Report: Geometry, Dynamics and Bifurcation.

  By David Chillingworth.

• Report: Workshop on Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems.

  By Jeroen Lamb.

• Report: Isaac Newton Institute Workshop on Integrable Systems.

  By Chris Eilbeck.

• Report: Workshop on Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Dynamics and Bifurcations.

  By Bernd Krauskopf and Hinke Osinga.

• Report: One-day meeting on Pattern Formation and Nonlinear Dynamics (PANDA).

  By Rebecca Hoyle.

• 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 J.M.T. Thompson FRS elected to the Council of the Royal Society.
  • European Dynamics Days.
• Appointments:
  • Greg Pavliotis appointed as a post-doctoral research assistant in the Mathematics Institute at Warwick University.
  • Peter Wilberg appointed as a post-doctoral research assistant in the Mathematics Institute at Warwick University.
  • John Ward appointed as a Lecturer in Mathematics at Loughborough.
• IOP launches new journals service for authors and readers.
• Lectures Notes in Mathematics ONLINE.

Recent Theses, Jobs, and Publishers' Announcements

• Recent Theses
• Dynamics of Synaptically Interacting Integrate-and-Fire Neurons (Loughborough University)
• Nonlinear Dynamics of Vibro-Impact Ground Penetration Systems (University of Aberdeen)
• Situations Vacant in Non-Linear Mathematics:
  • Studentships (Hong Kong Polytechnic University; University of Bristol/Imperial College)
  • Postdoctoral Positions (London School of Economics and Political Science; University College London; University of Bordeaux I, France; University of Bristol/University of Bath)
• Publishers' Announcements (UK Nonlinear News may carry reviews of these books in future issues).
  • WWW addresses for Publishers
  • New from the American Mathematical Society
    • The Kowalevski Property .
  • New from Springer
    • Computational Cell Biology.
    • Dynamical Systems and Small Divisors
    • Imperfect Bifurcation in Structures and Materials: Engineering Use of Group-Theoretic Bifurcation Theory .
    • Mathematical Approaches for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases Part I: An Introduction to Models, Methods, and Theory.
    • Mathematical Approaches for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases Part II: Models, Methods, and Theory.
  • New from World Scientific
    • Waves and Stability in Continuous Media
• 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 .
• New journal: Mathematical Medicine and Biology.
• Table of Contents: Nonlinearity Volume 15(4), July 2002

Meetings, Conferences and Events

Meetings and Conferences

• Conference Announcements.
  • Warwick Symposium on Geometry, Mechanics and Symmetry (September 2001-July 2002, University of Warwick)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • SDEs and SPDEs: Numerical methods and applications (31 March to 4th April 2002, Edinburgh UK).
  • IMA conference on Bifurcations: The Use and Control of Chaos (28-30 July 2003, University of Southampton).
  • 2002 Dynamics Days (8-11 January 2003, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA)
• 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 Thirty: November 2002

Issue Thirty is scheduled for 4th November 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 October.

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.

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UK Nonlinear News,
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