UK Nonlinear News

Issue Thirty: November 2002

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Articles and Reviews

• Book Review: Computational Cell Biology.

  Reviewed by James Sneyd.

• Book Review: Imperfect Bifurcation in Structures and Materials.

  Reviewed by David Wagg.

• Book Review: Mathematical Approaches for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases.

  Reviewed by Geoff Aldis.

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

  By Shouchuan Hu.

• Report: Oxford-Princeton Workshop on Multiscale Problems.

  By John Ball.

• Report: Workshop on Imaging, Modelling and Manipulating Transcriptional Regulatory Networks.

  By Cliburn Chan.

• Report: Patterns, Nonlinear Dynamics and Applications.

  By Jon Dawes.

• Report: Fronts, Fluctuations, & Growth.

  By Charlie Doering.

• Report: 3rd Mathematics in Medicine Study Group.

  By Oliver Jensen.

• Report: Microscopic chaos and transport in many-particle systems.

  By H.van Beijeren, R.Klages, P.Gaspard and J.R.Dorfman.

• 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:
  • Bristol Centre for Applied Nonlinear Mathematics.
  • Visitors to Mathematics at Warwick.
• Appointments:
  • Vassili Gelfreich appointed to a lectureship in the Mathematics Institute Warwick.
  • John Terry appointed to a lectureship in Mathematics at Loughborough.
  • Graeme Wake appointed as Adjunct Professor of Industrial Mathematics at Massey University.
• A new test for chaos.
• SIAM Prizes in Dynamical Systems.
• New book series from Chapman & Hall/CRC Press.
• Chaos, complexity and the use of evidence.
• Chaos, complexity and Redesigning Health Care for the 21st Century.

Recent Theses, Jobs, and Publishers' Announcements

• Recent Theses
• Contributions to the theory of discontinuous dynamical systems (University Babes-Bolyai, Romania)
• Hierarchical model-based fault diagnosis with application to vehicle systems (Ohio State University, USA)
• Situations Vacant in Non-Linear Mathematics:
  • Research Assistant (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
  • Postdoctoral Positions (Georgia Institute of Technology; Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal; Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia; UMIST; University of Bristol; University of Surrey; University of Waikato, New Zealand)
  • Lectureships (Universite Libre de Bruxelles; 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
    • Selected Topics in the Geometrical Study of Differential Equations .
  • New from Birkhauser
    • Cellular Automaton Modelling of Biological Pattern Formation.
  • New from Kluwer Academic Publishers
    • Lyapunov-Schmidt Methods in Nonlinear Analysis and Applications
  • New from Oxford University Press
    • 1089 and All That
  • New from Princeton University Press
    • Self-Regularity.
    • Selfsimilar Processes.
  • New from Springer
    • Geometry, Mechanics and Dynamics.
    • Random Perturbation Methods with Applications in Science and Engineering.
  • New from World Scientific
    • Synchronization in coupled chaotic 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 .
• Article: Centennial History of Hilbert's 16th Problem.
• New journal: Nonlinear Dynamics and Systems Theory.
• Special issue: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems celebrates Mark Vishik's 80th birthday.
• Table of Contents: Nonlinearity Volume 15(5), September 2002
• Table of Contents: Nonlinearity Volume 15(6), November 2002

Meetings, Conferences and Events

Meetings and Conferences

• Conference Announcements.
  • Managing, Learning and Surviving through Complexity. (20 November 2002, Cranfield University, Cranfield, England).
  • New Trends in Non-Equilibrium Statistical Physics (2nd December 2002, University of Warwick, UK).
  • Interdisciplinary Maths days at Warwick (2 December 2003 to 10 March 2003, University of Warwick, UK)
  • Integrable systems and complex analysis (6-7 December 2002, Loughborough University)
  • Program on Bio-molecular Networks (6 January - 28 March 2003, University of California Santa Barbara)
  • Annual Meeting of the UK and Republic of Ireland Section of SIAM (10 January 2003, University of Bath, UK)
  • 2002 Dynamics Days (8-11 January 2003, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA)
  • Winter School in Chaotic Communications (12-15 January 2003, University of California, San Diego, USA).
  • LOCNET Training School on Energy localisation and transfer in crystals, biomolecules and Josephson arrays. (27 January to 1 February 2003, Les Houche, France)
  • SDEs and SPDEs: Numerical methods and applications (31 March to 4th April 2003, Edinburgh UK).
  • International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control, (3-5 April 2003, Seville, Spain).
  • Workshop on Modern Trends in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (23-24 April 2003, UCL, London, England)
  • NSF and CSU Workshop on Dynamics and Bifurcations of Patterns in Dissipative Systems (19-22 May 2003, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA)
  • 1st Meeting of Complex Systems and Sport and the 4th International Conference of Computer Science in Sport. (14-17 May 2003, Barcelona, Spain)
  • Island 2 Discrete Systems and Geometry (22-27 June 2003, Isle of Arran, Scotland).
  • LMS-Durham workshop on New developments and applications in rapid fluid flows. (14-18 July 2003).
  • IMA conference on Bifurcations: The Use and Control of Chaos (28-30 July 2003, University of Southampton).
  • Workshop on Delay Equations and Their Applications (8-12 September 2003, University of Bristol)
• 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 One: March 2003

The next issue of UK Nonlinear News would normally be scheduled for 3rd February 2003. Issue 31 will unfortunately be delayed by one month.

Issue Thirty One is scheduled for 3rd March 2003. 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 26th February.

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

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UK Nonlinear News,
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