UK Nonlinear News Issue 46, March 2007

News

• The Royal Statistical Society (UK) has announced in the March 2007 issue of the RSS News that the Guy Medal in Silver 2007 is awarded to Professor Howell Tong for his many important contributions to time series analysis over a distinguished career, and in particular for his fundamental and highly influential paper "Threshold autoregression, limit cycles and cyclical data", read to the Society in 1980, which paved the way for a major body of work in non-linear time series modelling. Previous recipients of the medal, which was inaugurated in 1893, include Maurice Bartlett, George Box, David Cox, Henry Daniels, David Kendall, C. R. Rao, Bernard Silverman, Adrian Smith, Peter Whittle, and others.

• Congratulations to Gianne Derks, who has been promoted to Reader, and to Ian Roulstone, who has been promoted to Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Surrey.

• As of the end of 2006 Atlantis Press has taken over the publication of the Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics. A new JNMP website is completed, with all JNMP articles transferred to this site.

Appointments

• Dr. Jochen Voss has been appointed to a position as Research Associate at the University of Warwick, working with Dr. Martin Hairer and Professor Andrew Stuart, in the area of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations (SPDEs), effective March 2007. Dr. Voss will be investigating theoretical and computational aspects of the use of SPDEs for the sampling of random fields.

Recent Theses

• An Investigation of Permanence and Exclusion in a two dimensional discrete-time Competing Species Model
  Patrick J. Johnson, University of Limerick

Jobs

• Research Assistant/Research Associate in COMPLEX DYNAMICS AND BIFURCATION IN CORTICAL SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION, Electronic and Information Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Postgraduate opportunities: Leeds  Warwick  Surrey

• Applications are invited for PhD studentships in the general area of Nonlinear Dynamics, available from July 2007 within the Department of Mathematics at the University of Surrey. Funding is available for UK students (fees plus a maintenance grant) and EU students (fees only). For further information, please contact Prof Ian Melbourne.

• Department of Aerospace Sciences, Cranfield University is offering bursaries for places on its MSc course in Computational Fluid Dynamics. The course is designed to reflect the application of Computational Fluid Dynamics across industry, from aerospace and mechanical engineering applications to environmental flows, process systems, microfluidics and cross-disciplinary applications.

Meetings, Conferences and Events

Conference Listing by date.

• 3rd International Workshop on Epileptic Seizure Prediction

  Freiburg, Germany. 29 Sep - 2 Oct

• Dynamical Methods and Mathematical Modelling

  Valladolid, Spain. 18 -- 22 Sep

• "Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: Advances and Perspectives" Conference on the occasion of Prof. Celso Grebogi's 60th birthday

  University of Aberdeen. 17 - 21 Sep

• EUROMECH Colloquium 491: Vortex dynamics from quantum to geophysical scales

  Mathematics Research Institute, University of Exeter. 11 - 14 Sep

• International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2007

  Porto, Portugal. 9 - 13 Sep

• Numerical Analysis of Stochastic PDEs

  Manchester. 3 - 4 Sep

• 13th International Workshop on Cellular Automata

  Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada. 27 - 29 Aug

• Workshop "Turbulent Mixing and Beyond," TMBW-07

  International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. 18 - 26 Aug

• 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

• SynCoNet2007 International Symposium on Synchronization in Complex Networks

  Leuven, Belgium, 2 - 4 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

• Chaos, Complexity and Transport: Theory and Applications

  Marseille, 4 - 8 June

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

  Saint-Petersburg, Russia. 4 - 8 Jun

• SPT2007 (Symmetry and Perturbation Theory)

  Otranto, Southern Italy, 2 - 9 June 2007

• Thematic Semester on Applied Dynamical Systems

  Centre de Recherhes Mathematiques, Montreal, Canada, June - December, 2007

• SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS07)

  Snowbird, Utah. 28 May - 1 Jun

• LMS meeting on "Anomalous diffusion in Deterministic Systems"

  University of Surrey, Friday 25th May 2007

• Analysis and Control of Complex Networks, organized by SICC,

  Milan, Italy, May 24 - 26, 2007

• 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

• Nonlinear Dynamics in Polymeric Systems

  2008 Spring National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New Orleans. 6 - 10Apr 2008