UK Nonlinear News

Issue Thirty One: March 2003

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Articles and Reviews

• Book Review: 1089 and All That.

  Reviewed by John Brindley.

• Book Review: Diffusion and Ecological Problems - Modern Perspectives (Second edition).

  Reviewed by John Brindley.

• Book Review: The Dynamics of Control.

  Reviewed by Jaroslav Stark.

• Book Review: Geometry, Mechanics and Dynamics: Volume in Honor of the 60th Birthday of J. E. Marsden.

  Reviewed by Darryl Holm.

• Book Review: Selected Topics in Nonlinear Wave Mechanics.

  Reviewed by John Billingham.

• Book Review: Dynamical Systems and Small Divisors.

  Reviewed by Rafael de la Llave.

• Report: The Dynamics, Bifurcations and Unfoldings Group in the South (DynaBUGS).

  By Bernd Krauskopf.

• 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.

News

• Academic:
  • 2003 Japan Prize for the Creation of Universal Concepts in Complex Systems
• Appointments:
  • Henk Bruin has been appointed Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Surrey

Recent Theses, Jobs, and Publishers' Announcements

• Recent Theses
  • Higher-order Resonances in Dynamical Systems (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)
  • Bifurcations in dynamical systems with parametric excitation (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)
  • Vector fields with heteroclinic networks (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
  • Anti-integrability in Lagrangian Systems (DAMTP, University of Cambridge)
  • Geometry and stability of multi-periodic surface wave patterns (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Surrey)
  • Regularity of Minimizers in the Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
  • Closed trajectories in planar piecewise-smooth systems of Liénard-type with a line of discontinuity (University of Cologne, Germany)
  • Dynamics of Piecewise Isometric Systems with Particular Emphasis to the Goetz Map (University of Surrey)
• Situations Vacant in Non-Linear Mathematics
  • Postdoctoral Positions (University of Saskatchewan,Santa Fe Institute)
  • Lectureships and Readership  (University College London, University of Bath)
  • Chair (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
    • An Introduction to Mathematical Modeling in Physiology, Cell Biology and Immunology
    • Lectures on Chaotic Dynamical Systems
  • New from Birkhauser
    • The Symmetry Perspective: From Equilibrium to Chaos in Phase Space and Physical Space
    • Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws: The Theory of Classical and Nonclassical Shock Waves
  • New from Cambridge University Press
    • Introduction to Dynamical Systems
  • New from Princeton University Press
    • Analytic Theory of Global Bifurcation
    • Trends in Nonlinear Analysis
  • New from Springer
    • Introduction to Dynamical Systems (2nd edition)
    • Normal Forms and Unfoldings for Local Dynamical Systems
    • Dynamics in Infinite Dimensions (2nd edition)

• 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 .
• Update: Journal of Difference Equations and Applications (JDEA)
• Call for Papers: Special Issue of Notices of Universities. South of Russia. Natural sciences.
• Table of Contents: Nonlinearity Volume 16(1), September 2002
• Table of Contents: Nonlinearity Volume 16(2), November 2002

Meetings, Conferences and Events

Meetings and Conferences

• Conference Announcements.
  • Neurodynamics meeting (3rd March 2003 Department of Mathematical Sciences, Loughborough University)
  • Four studies in Mathematical Biology (10 March 2003 University College London)
  • Pattern Formation and Nonlinear Dynamics (10 March 2003 University of Surrey)
  • Modern Trends in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (23-24 April 2003 University College London)
  • Workshop on the Structure and Stability of Interfacial Waves (15-16 May 2003 University of Loughborough)
  • Dynamics and Bifurcations of Patterns in Dissipative System (19-22 May 2003 Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO)
  • Fourth International Conference on Dynamic Systems and Applications  (21-24 May 2003 Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
  • Dynamical Systems, Denton 2003 (25-29 May 2003 University of North Texas in Denton TX)
  • Large Systems: Some Mathematical Problems and Perspectives (26-29 May 2003 Roma Accademia Deilincei)
  • Summer School on Nonlinear Phenomena in Computational Chemical Physics (9-14 June 2003 Barcelona)
  • 5th Dublin Differential Equations Conference (10-14 June 2003  Dublin City University, Ireland)
  • Two day meeting on Complex Fluids  (16-17 June 2003 University of the West of England, Bristol)
  • 2003 SIAM Annual Meeting (16-20 June 2003 Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, CA)
  • Instructional Conference on Mathematical Analysis of Hydrodynamics (18-29 June 2003 Edinburgh)
  • MATHTOOLS'2003 - Tools for Mathematical Modelling  (23-28 June 2003 Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
  • The Fifth International Conference on Symmetry in Nonlinear Mathematical Physics (June 23-29 2003 Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine)
  • Workshop on Attractors and Coupled Systems (27 June 2003 University of Exeter)
  • Summer School on Applications of Advanced Mathematical and Computational Methods to Atmospheric and Oceanic Problems (MCAO2003)  (14-26 July 2003 National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado)
  • Infinite-Dimensional Dynamical Systems: Analysis, Applications and Control (14-18 July 2003 University of Exeter)
  • Gordon Research Conference on  Oscillations & Dynamic Instabilities in Chemical Systems (18 - 23 July 2004 Bates College, Lewiston, Maine)
• 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 Two: May 2003

Issue Thirty One is scheduled for 5th May 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 30th April.

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

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UK Nonlinear News,
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