UK Nonlinear News

Issue Thirty Six: May 2004

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Articles and Reviews

• Book Review: Mathematical Biology (3rd edition) .

  Reviewed by Jaroslav Stark.

• Report: Pattern Formation and Nonlinear Dynamics (PANDA) .

  By Alastair Rucklidge.

• Report: First Meeting of the LMS Scheme 3 Mathematics in Medicine and Biology.

  By David Terry.

• 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 
  • Two new postdoctoral fellows at Kent.
  • Alice Yew Appointed at the University of Surrey.
• People
  • Award: Roger Grimshaw awarded the ANZIAM Medal.
  • Award: Mark Groves awarded the Richard von Mises Prize.
  • Award: Bjorn Sandstede awarded a five-year Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award.
  • Award: Professor Ma Zhi-Ming awarded honorary doctorate by Loughborough University.
  • Obituary: Olga Ladyzhenskaya.
  • New home page for Alwyn Scott.
• Others
  • Complexity, public health issues, SARS, AIDS and ecosystem health.
  • Head of Engineering Mathematics Department at Bristol.
  • Loughborough University awarded a Leverhulme Academic Network Grant
  • Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference "Symmetry in Nonlinear Mathematical Physics.
  • Software: MathRevolt announces Infinity 1.2.6.

Recent Theses, Jobs, and Publishers' Announcements

• Recent Theses
  • BWR Stability and Bifurcation Analysis using a Novel Reduced Order Model and the System Code RAMONA (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
• Situations Vacant in Non-Linear Mathematics
  • Studentships (Aston University; University of Leeds; University of Paisley)
• Publishers' Announcements (UK Nonlinear News may carry reviews of these books in future issues).
  • WWW addresses for Publishers
  • New from Princeton University Press
    • Capture Dynamics and Chaotic Motions in Celestial Mechanics
  • New from SIAM
    • Introduction to Numerical Continuation Methods.
  • New from Springer
    • Chaos and Fractals: New Frontiers of Science (2nd edition).
    • Critical Phenomena in Natural Sciences (2nd edition).
    • Modelling Complex 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: Cantor and Sierpinski, Julia and Fatou: Complex Topology Meets Complex Dynamics.
• Journal: E-Bulletin of Statistics & Economics (BSE).
• New Journal: Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering (MBE).
• New Journal: Systems Biology
• New Journal: Journal of Unconventional Computing, Non-Classical Computation and Cellular Automata.
• Table of Contents: Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control 9(1).
• Table of Contents: Nonlinearity Volume 17(3), May 2004
• Table of Contents: Nonlinearity Volume 17(4), July 2004

Meetings, Conferences and Events

Meetings and Conferences

• Conference Announcements.
  • 8th Experimental Chaos Conference (14-17 June 2004, Florence, Italy)
  • Modelling of Neuronal Dendrites (18th June 2004, Edinburgh, Scotland)
  • 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)
  • NCTS 2004 International Conference on Dynamical Systems (23 - 28 June 2004, Taiwan)
  • Jornades d'introducciÓ als Sistemes DinÀmics (28 June to 3 July 2004, Barcelona, Spain)
  • 3rd International School on Topics In Nonlinear Dynamics (Discrete Dynamical Systems and Applications) (7-9 July 2004, Urbino, Italy)
  • Pattern Formation and Nonlinear Dynamics (July 8th 2004, University of Surrey).
  • LMS meeting on Scalar Mixing in Fluid Flows and Mappings (9th July 2004, Exeter)
  • Summer School & Conference Complexity in Science and Society (14-26 July 2004, Patras and Ancient Olympia, GREECE)
  • ICMS Workshop on Mathematical Issues in Nonlinear Optics: Guided Waves in Inhomogeneous Nonlinear Media (18-24 July 2004, Edinburgh)
  • Topological Structures and Their Applications in Physics and Biology (2-12 August 2004, Durham).
  • 2nd Seminar of BioMathematics (11-13 August 2004, Lima, Peru).
  • Algorithms for Macromolecular Modelling IV (18-21 August 2004, Leicester UK).
  • 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)
  • Tutorial/Research Workshop on Nonlinear Speech Processing: Algorithms and Analysis (13-18 September 13-18 2004, Vietri sul Mare (Salerno), ITALY).
  • Summer School on Mathematics in Biology and Medicine (20-24 September 2004, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Oeiras, Portugal).
  • 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)
  • Symposium Henri Poincare (7-9 October 2004, Brussels, Belgium).
  • Hamiltonian systems, Control and Plasma Physics (HSCoPP'04) (21-23 October 2004, Frejus, France).
  • Mathematics in Industry Study Group 2005 (24-28 January 2005, Albany, Auckland, New Zealand)
  • 13th annual conference of the Association of Computational Mechanics in Engineering.
• 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 Seven: August 2004

Issue Thirty Seven is scheduled for 2nd August 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 28th July.

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

Professor Jaroslav Stark,
Department of Mathematics
Imperial College London
180 Queen's Gate
London
SW7 2BZ
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