UK Nonlinear News

Issue Thirty Five: February 2004

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Articles and Reviews

• Book Review: Essential Mathematical Biology .

  Reviewed by James Sneyd.

• Book Review: Normal Forms and Unfoldings for Local Dynamical Systems.

  Reviewed by Mark Groves.

• Book Review: Physics of Fractal Operators

  Reviewed by Henrik Jensen.

• 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

• Appointments 
  • Alexey Zaikin appointed lecturer at Exeter
  • Vadim Kuznetsov appointed Reader in Applied Analysis at Leeds
• People
  • Ball Awarded Crighton Medal
  • Doering Awarded Humboldt Research Award
  • Retirement of Alex Craik
  • Obituary: Ilya Prigogine
• Others
  • Nonlinear chemical dynamics movies
  • MSc and MRes courses (University of York)

Recent Theses, Jobs, and Publishers' Announcements

• Recent Theses
  • Oscillations and Waves in Single and Multi-cellular Systems with Free Calcium (Loughborough University)
• Situations Vacant in Non-Linear Mathematics
  • Studentships (University of Surrey, University of Nottingham)
  • Postdoctoral Positions (University of Bristol, Georgia Institute of Technology)
  • Lectureships (University of Southampton, University of St Andrews, University of Strathclyde, Schumacher College)
• Publishers' Announcements (UK Nonlinear News may carry reviews of these books in future issues).
  • WWW addresses for Publishers
  • New from the American Chemical Society
    • Nonlinear Dynamics in Polymeric Systems
  • New from the American Mathematical Society
    • Complex Dynamics and Geometry
  • New from Birkhauser
    • The Nonlinear Limit-Point/Limit-Cycle Problem
    • A Stability Technique for Evolution Partial Differential Equations: A Dynamical Systems Approach
  • New from Cambridge University Press
    • Mathematical Models in Biology
  • New from Princeton University Press
    • Entropy
  • New from SIAM
    • Applied Mathematical Models in Human Physiology.
  • New from Springer
    • Bifurcation Theory: An Introduction with Applications to PDEs.
    • Fractals and Chaos.
    • Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology and Medicine

• 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: Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control
• Special Issue of DCDS-B: Mathematical Models in Cancer
• Proceedings of 2nd, 3rd and 4th Conferences: Symmetry in Nonlinear Mathematical Physics
• Table of Contents: Nonlinearity Volume 17(2), March 2004

Meetings, Conferences and Events

Meetings and Conferences

• Conference Announcements.
  • LMS Scheme 3 meeting on Mathematics in Medicine and Biology (18 February 2004, Loughborough University)
  • One Day Ergodic Theory Meeting (26 March 2004, University of Surrey)
  • Workshop on Analysis and Continuation of Bifurcations (19-21 May 2004, Seville, Spain)
  • 8th Experimental Chaos Conference (14-17 June 2004, Florence, Italy)
  • Symmetries and Integrability of Difference Equations: EuroConference on Analytic Difference Equations, Special Functions and Quantum Models on the Lattice (19-24 June 2004, Helsinki, Finland)
  • 3rd International School on Topics In Nonlinear Dynamics (Discrete Dynamical Systems and Applications) (7-9 July 2004, Urbino, Italy)
  • ICMS Workshop on Mathematical Issues in Nonlinear Optics: Guided Waves in Inhomogeneous Nonlinear Media (18-24 July 2004, Edinburgh)
  • 8th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems (VSS'04) (6-8 September 2004, Vilanova i la Geltru, Spain)
  • EPSRC Summer School on Cell adhesion and migration: the interface with tissue engineering (6-10 September 2004, University of Nottingham)
  • 5th IFAC Workshop on Time-Delay Systems (8-10 September, 2004, K.U. Leuven, Belgium)
  • Piecewise Smooth Dynamical Systems: Analysis, Numerics and Applications (13-16 September 2003, University of Bristol)
  • Advanced Summer School on Nonlinear Waves in Fluids: Recent advances and modern applications (September 20-24 2004 CISM, Udine, Italy)
  • Self Organization in Nonequilibrium Systems (24-25 September 2004, Belgrade, Serbia)
• 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 Six: May 2004

Issue Thirty Six is scheduled for 5th May 2004. 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.

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If necessary, paper copy can instead be sent to

Professor Jaroslav Stark,
Department of Mathematics
Imperial College London
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