UK Nonlinear News Issue 45, December 2006

Articles and Reviews

• Book Review: Geometric theory of incompressible flows with applications to fluid dynamics
  Reviewed by Alastair Rucklidge
• Book Review: Pattern Formation: Introduction to Methods
  Reviewed by Nikola Venkov
• Book Review: Chaotic Dynamics: An Introduction Based on Classical Mechanics
  Reviewed by Rob Sturman
• Report: Pattern Formation, Nonlinear Dynamics and Applications (PANDA), University of Leeds, 13th November 2006
  By Alastair Rucklidge

News

• SDE-Net is a new email list that aims to bring together those working in Stochastic Differential Equations and their applications. Postings will be monthly.
• The European Mathematical Society is calling for proposals for Summer Schools in fundamental and interdiciplinary mathematics. Contact Luc Lemaire for more details.

Appointments

• Dr. Konstantin Blyuss has been appointed to a lectureship in Applied Mathematics at the University of Keele, following postdoc positions in Exeter and in Oxford.
• Dr. Rob Sturman has been appointed to a lectureship in Applied Mathematics at the University of Leeds, following postdoc positions in Bristol and in Leeds.

Recent Theses

• Codimension 2 Bifurcations of Iterated Maps
  Hil Meijer, Utrecht
• Variational methods and periodic solutions of N-body and N-centre problems
  John Southall, University of Surrey
• Criticality theory and conformal mapping techniques for single and two-layer water wave systems
  Neil M. Donaldson, University of Surrey

Jobs

• Lectureship in Dynamical Systems, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London
• Lectureship in Applied Mathematics (with emphasis on computational mathematics and/or interdisciplinary work in life sciences or materials science), University of Edinburgh
• Two tenure track faculty positions at the Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics Department at Northwestern University: computational neuroscience and complexity in natural and engineered systems
• Two Chapman Fellowships in Mathematics at Imperial College London: applications from promising researchers in the field of dynamical systems are particularly encouraged
• Post Doctoral Research Fellow Stochastic Partial Differential Equations  Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick
• Natural Complexity Analyst at British Antarctic Survey
• Tenure-Track position in Analysis in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan

Postgraduate opportunities: Leeds  Warwick  Surrey

• PhD Studentship in Computational/Theoretical Plasticity Durham
• 2 scholarships to perform PhD studies in Nonlinear Optics and Lasers at the Universidad Politecnica de Catalonia (UPC)

Meetings, Conferences and Events

Conference Listing by date.

• Numerical Analysis of Stochastic PDEs

  Manchester. 3-4 Sep

• Natural Complexity: Theory and Data in Dialogue

  Cambridge. 13-17 Aug

• SciCADE 2007

  St. Malo, France. 9-13 Jul

• Dynamics Days Europe 2007

  Loughborough, UK. 9-13 Jul

• Nonuniformly Hyperbolic Dynamics and Smooth Ergodic Theory on the occasion Yakov Pesin's 60th birthday

  Lisbon, Portugal. 25-29 Jun

• Symmetry in Nonlinear Mathematical Physics

  Kiev, Ukraine. 24-30 Jun

• Nonlinear evolution equations and dynamical systems (NEEDS) 2007: Workshop

  Ametlla de Mar, Spain. 18-23 Jun

• Nonlinear evolution equations and dynamical systems (NEEDS) 2007: Summer School

  Ametlla de Mar, Spain. 15-17 Jun

• Nolineal 2007

  Ciudad Real, Spain. 5-8 Jun

• International Congress on Nonlinear Dynamical Analysis in honour of the 150th anniversary of Academician A.M. Lyapunov

  Saint-Petersburg, Russia. 4-8 Jun

• SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS07)

  Snowbird, Utah. 28 May - 1 Jun

• Nonlinear Dynamics in Polymeric Systems.

  New Orleans. 6-10 Apr

• British Applied Mathematics Colloquium

  Bristol. 17-19 Apr

• Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Computation and Theory

  University of Georgia, USA. 17-19 Apr

• Travelling Waves: Theory and Applications

  University of Surrey. 26-30 Mar

• PANDA (Pattern Formation, Nonlinear Dynamics and Applications): Localised Patterns

  University of Surrey. Mar

• Winter School in Dynamical Systems

  Granada, Spain. 5-9 Feb

• Ratchets in point-particle systems and in extended models

  Sevilla, Spain. 5-7 Feb

• SIAM UK and Ireland section one day annual meeting

  Oxford. 5 Jan