UK Nonlinear News, Issue 40

News

• Dwight Barkley (University of Warwick) has been awarded the 2005 JD Crawford Prize by SIAM for his development of high quality, robust and efficient numerical algorithms for pattern formation phenomena in spatially extended dynamical systems.
• Hinke Osinga (University of Bristol) has been awarded an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship.
• Jonathan Wattis is calling for papers for a special issue of Physica D on the topic of Coagulation-Fragmentation Processes. For more information, please see http://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/personal/jadw/CF.html
• Somesh Kumar is calling for papers for a special issue of the International Journal of Ecology and Development, on Nonlinear Mathematical Models for Ecology and Eco-System.
• Prof Simos and Dr Tsitouras are calling for papers for a special issue of MATCH, Communications in Mathematical and in Computer Chemistry, An International Journal on the topic of Numerical Methods in Chemistry.
• Kaushal Srivastava is calling for papers on ecological and environmental economics, for a special issue of International Journal of Ecological Economics & Statistics, in honor of Professor Charles Perrings.
• Free to a good home: SIAM Journal of Numerical Analysis; SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing; SIAM Review. Complete runs covering the period 1993-1999 (approximately). "Buyer" collects from Dr Christian C. Beardah, Clifton Campus, Nottingham Trent University, before September 2nd.

Appointments

• Prof. Chris Jones has been appointed to a Chair in Applied Nonlinear Dynamics at the University of Leeds.

Recent Theses

• MatCont: Matlab software for bifurcations of dynamical systems,
  Annick Dhooge, Ghent University. Direct link to MatCont.

Jobs

• Professorship and Lectureship in Mathematics, Heriot-Watt University
• Two Chairs at Heriot-Watt/Edinburgh as part of the newly formed Maxwell Institute.
• Three lectureships/senior lectureships/readerships in Applied Mathematics at the University of Exeter.
• Lectureship, Department of Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol.
• Assistant Professor Applied Mathematics Center for Applied Analysis, Scientific Computing, Department of Mathematics and Computer science, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.
• Research Fellow in Solar System Plasma Turbulence Space and Astrophysics Group, University of Warwick, UK.
• Post-doctoral position, University of Lancaster, on Langevin Algorithms: Questions at the Numerical Analysis and Statistics Interface (LAQUEST)
• Three posts (Scientific Programmer, Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Experimental Fluid Mechanics, Temporary Teaching Fellow) at the Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol.
• Research Fellow in Numerical Simulation of Inkjet Printing School of Mathematics, University of Leeds.

Postgraduate opportunities: Leeds   Warwick

• The International Center of Biodynamics Romania, in cooperation with the University of Bucharest and the Center for Complexity Studies, Romania, are offering an International Masters program in Biodynamics starting September 2005.
• Studentship on "Generating high resolution DNS" with Prof. Robert Kerr, School of Engineering, University of Warwick.
• Studentship on Control and Dynamics of Switched Systems with Applications in Biology, with M.J. Marsden, University of Exeter.

Meetings, Conferences and Events

Conference Listing by date.

• First IFAC Conference on Analysis and Control of Chaotic Systems
  Reims, France. 28-30 June 2006.
• The Sixth AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications
  University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France. 25-28 June 2006.
• Launch meeting of Networks and Heterogeneous Media
  Maiori, Amalfi Coast, Italy. 21-23 June 2006.
• ANZIAM 2006
  Mansfield, Victoria, Australia. 5-9 February 2006.
• Mathematics in Industry Study Group 2006
  Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand. 30 Jan-3 Feb 2006.
• 55th European Study Group Mathematics with Industry
  Technische Universiteit, Eindhoven. 30 January - 3 February 2006.
• UK & Ireland SIAM meeting
  University of Cardiff. 6 January 2006.
• Dynamics Days 2006
  Bethesda MD, USA. 4-7 January 2006.
• El-Naschie Symposium on Nonlinear Dynamics
  Shanghai, China. 20-21 December 2005.
• Workshop on Geometric Dynamics with Singularities
  University of Exeter, 13-16 December 2005.
• Pattern Formation in Fluid Mechanics.
  Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge. 12-16 December 2005.
• Session on Nonlinearity, Stochasticity, Scaling, and Self-Organization in Solar System Plasmas at the Fall AGU Meeting.
  Session convened by Sandra C Chapman, Nicholas W Watkins, Abraham Chian, Dimitris Vassiliadis. San Francisco, USA. 5-9 December 2005.
• XIV Latin American School of Mathematics: Probability and Dynamical Systems
  Solis, Uruguay. 1-9 December 2005.
• Workshop on Complex Time-Delay Systems
  Paris, France. 17 November 2005.
• First School on Computational Cell Biology: The role of stochasticity in the modelling and simulation of biological processes.
  Institute of Biomathematics, University of Urbino, Italy. 7-9 November 2005.
• Workshop on Applications of Methods of Stochastic Systems and Statistical Physics in Biology
  Notre Dame, IN, USA. 28-30 October 2005.
• National Conference of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
  Craiova, Rumania. 23-24 September 2005.
• Quantum Computational Seminar: three talks on the Riemann Zeta function and beyond by Michael Berry (Bristol), Jon Keating (Bristol), and Boris Altshuler (Princeton).
  School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, 21-23 September 2005. Contact Vadim Kuznetsov for more details.
• Theoretical Aspects of Pattern Formation: special day of distinguished lectures.
  Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Surrey. 20 September 2005.
• Nonlinearity scientific meeting
  Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London. 9 September 2005.
• Synchronization in Nonlinear Systems and Complex Networks
  Florence, Italy. 8-10 September 2005.
• Understanding and Teaching Nonlinear Dynamics
  Saint Etienne de Tiné, France. 13 August - 8 October 2005.

Publishers' Announcements

• New from Routledge
  • Encyclopedia of Nonlinear Science (Alwyn Scott, Editor).
• Vivian Rambihar has published Tsunami, Chaos and Global Heart: using complexity science to make a better world

Journal News

• Free online journal: Mechanics and Chemistry of Biosystems
• Two special issues of Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A: Recent Development on Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems, Part I and Part II (Volume 13 numbers 4-5).
• New journal from American Institute of Mathematical Sciences: Networks and Heterogeneous Media, inaugural issue out soon.