UK Nonlinear News Issue 57, Dec 2009

Articles and Reviews

• Synchronization: From Simple to Complex
  A. Balanov, N. Janson, D. Postnov, O. Sosnovtseva
  Reviewed by M.V. Ivanchenko
• Newsstand magazine article on the history of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam problem
• Chaos 2009 nonlinear science gallery

Recent Theses

• Stephen Pring Discontinuous maps with applications to impacting systems University of Bath.

Jobs

• The Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick invites applications for two Assistant Professorships in Applied Mathematics (including numerical analysis, partial differential equations and their applications, and applied analysis). These posts are associated with the establishment of MASDOC, a new Centre for Doctoral Training in Mathematics and Statistics funded by EPSRC.
• 3-year postdoctoral position in Quantum Dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates at CTCP, Massey University, New Zealand. Interested candidates should send their CV to j.brand "at" massey.ac.nz.
• Vacancies in Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town. Informal enquiries to Igor.Barashenkov "at" uct.ac.za

DSWeb Professional Opportunities in Dynamical Systems

Postgraduate opportunities: Leeds  Warwick  Surrey

• DPhil studentships at Oxford through OCCAM
• Two funded PhD studentships in Many-Body Dynamics of Ultra-Cold Atoms at CTCP, Massey University, New Zealand.

Meetings, Conferences and Events

Conference Listing by date.

• Emerging Interfacial Dynamics

  Surrey. 6-8 Jan

• UK-Japan Winter School on Integrable Systems and Symmetry

  Manchester. 7-10 Jan

• Novel multi-scale methods for multi-phase porous media flow

  ICMS Edinburgh. 18-19 Jan

• Classical and Weak KAM theorem

  Montegrotto Terme, Italy. 14-19 Feb

• British Mathematics Colloquium and British Applied Mathematics Colloquium

  Edinburgh, 6 - 9 Apr

• Nonlinear Phenomena in Quantum Degenerate Gases

  Ourense, Spain. 12-16 Apr

• Nonlinear Dynamics in Biological Networks (Summer School)

  Montreal, Canada. 17-28 May

• The 14th Conference on Modern Group Analysis

  Lulea, Sweden. 25 May - 2 Jun

• Synchronization in Complex Networks

  Bad Honnef, Germany. 26-29 May

• Joint SIAM/RSME-SCM-SEMA Meeting on Dynamical Systems and Partial Differential Equations

  Barcelona. 31 May - 4 Jun

• The 11th Experimental Chaos Conference

  Lille, France, 8-11 Jun

• Nonlinear Waves: Theory and Applications

  Beijing. 26-29 Jun

• Dynamics Days

  Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil. 26-30 Jul

• SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures

  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 16-19 Aug

• First International Workshop on Differential and Integral Equations with Applications in Biology and Medicine

  Aegean University, Karlovassi, Greece. 7-10 Sep

• Future Challenges in Mathematical and Computational Neuroscience

  Oxford. 13-15 Sep

• Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulations for Soft Materials

  Fort Collins, Colorado. 13-17 Sep

Publishers' Announcements

• New from CUP: Geo-Engineering Climate Change edited by Brian Launder and Michael Thompson