UK Nonlinear News, Issue 39

Articles and Reviews

• Workshop on mathematical neuroscience, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 21-23 March 2005

News

• Phil Holmes 60th birthday workshop.
  To celebrate his scientific achievements, a two-day workshop in his honour is to be held October 15-16 at the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques in Montréal.
  More information on this workshop will come later.
• MSc in Space Technology and Planetary Exploration University of Surrey

Appointments

• Dr. Rainer Hollerbach has been appointed to a Readership in Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics at the University of Leeds.
• Dr. Alexei Likhtman has been appointed to an Academic Fellowship at the University of Leeds.
• Jonathan Bevan has been appointed to an Academic Fellowship at the University of Surrey. He was awarded MMath and DPhil degrees from Oxford and is currently an EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Oxford. Jonathan's research interests are in the area of the calculus of variations with particular interest in polyconvex functions and the regularity properties of minimizers of a class of functionals which have applications to elasticity theory.
• Vincent Naudot has been appointed as a postdoctoral researcher at the Mathematics institute, University of Warwick from May 1st 2005. He works with Vassili Gelfreich on the project "Asymptotic beyond all orders and Stokes phenomenon in bifurcation problems" (http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/~gelf/). Vincent graduated from Dijon University (France) in 1991 and got a PhD from the same University (under supervision of Robert ROUSSARIE) in 1996. Vincent spent 3 years at Kyoto University and the National Astronomical Observatory in Tokyo, Japan, and after that 4 years at the RUG-Groningen in the Netherlands. Vincent's interests include Dynamical systems, chaos, homoclinic bifurcation, strange attractors, normal form theory, KAM theory, algorithmic. He has also recently a keen interest in mathematical modelling in ecology.

Visitors

• Professor Polina Landa, Moscow State University, will be a Royal Society visiting research fellow at Lancaster University during 15 May - 13 August 2005. She will be working on the mathematical connections between stochastic resonance and vibrational resonance.
  Contact: p.v.e.mcclintock@lancaster.ac.uk
• Geon Ho Choe, visiting scholar at Imperial College London. Author of "Computational Ergodic Theory" by Springer. http://shannon.kaist.ac.kr/choe/

Jobs

• Chairs at Edinburgh
• Lectureships at Birmingham
• Lectureship at Portsmouth
• Lectureship at Reading
• Lectureship in Mathematical Biology at the University of Liverpool.
  Closing date 20 May, 2005. Informal enquiries to Professor A.B. Movchan, on 0151 794 4740, or e-mail abm@liv.ac.uk
• Tenure-track position at CWI-Amsterdam
• Research Associate in Mathematical Biology
• Research Associates, Lancaster University Department of Physics
• Research Assistant/Research Associate
• PhD in Mathematical Neuroscience
• PhD Studentship in Nonlinear Mathematical Modelling of Microsystems
• EPSRC studentships, Surrey
• 6th Century studentships, Aberdeen

Postgraduate opportunities: Leeds   Warwick

Meetings, Conferences and Events

Conference Listing by date.

• One Day Ergodic Theory Meeting
  University of Surrey. 16 May 2005
• Dynamics, topology and computations
  Bedlewo, Poland. 4-10 June 2005
• Networks and Dynamical Processes
  University of Bath. 27-28 June 2005
• A Showcase of Applied Mathematics
  In Honour of the 70th Birthday of Prof Ron Shail
  University of Surrey. 28 June 2005.
• LMS Meeting on Scalar Mixing in Fluid Flows and Mappings
  University of Exeter. 4 July 2005
• Workshop on Coagulation-Fragmentation Processes: Theory and Applications
   ICMS, Edinburgh. 4-8 Jul 2005
• Infinite-dimensional Dynamical Systems
  University of Marseille. 4-8 July 2005.
• Let's face chaos through nonlinear dynamics
  University of Maribor, Slovenia. 26 June-14 July 2005
• Training course: Pattern Formation in Large Domains
  Newton Institute, Cambridge. 1-5 August
• Developments in Experimental Pattern Formation
  Newton Institute, Cambridge. 8-12 August
• Understanding and teaching nonlinear dynamics
  Saint Étienne de Tinée, France. 13 August-8 October 2005
• Econophysics and Complexity Summer School
  Romania. 2-9 September 2005
• Dynamics of socio-economic systems: a physics perspective
  Bad Honnef, Germany, 18-24 September 2005
• Piecewise-Smooth Systems
  Manizales, Colombia. 19th-23rd September 2005
• Theoretical Aspects of Pattern Formation
  University of Surrey. 19-23 September 2005
• Theoretical Aspects of Pattern Formation: special day of distinguished lectures
  Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Surrey. 20 September 2005
• Theory and Applications of Coupled Cell Networks
  Newton Institute, Cambridge. 26-30 September
• Pattern Formation in Fluid Mechanics
  Newton Institute, Cambridge. 12-16 December 2005
• Complexity and Fractals in Nature
   Vienna, Austria. 12-15 February 2006.
• The Painleve Equations and Monodromy Problems
  Newton Institute. 4-29 September 2006

Publishers' Announcements

• New from Cambridge University Press
  • Practical Applied Mathematics: Modelling, Analysis, Approximation
    Sam Howison
  • Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations
    K. W. Morton and D. F. Mayers
  • Mathematical Modelling in Continuum Mechanics
    Roger M. Temam and Alain Michael Miranville
  • An Introduction to Partial Differential Equations
    Yehuda Pinchover and Jacob Rubinstein
• New from World Scientific
  • Cellular Neural Networks, Multi-Scroll Chaos and Synchronization

Journal News

Free online journal: Mechanics and Chemistry of Biosystems