Issue Nine: August 1997

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Articles and Reviews

• Report on the workshop "Symmetric Chaos and Dynamical Systems"

  By Peter Ashwin.

• Report on the workshop "Extracting Physical Properties of PDEs Using Functional Analysis"

  By Michele Bartuccelli.

• The Fourth SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, Utah.

  By Kevin Campbell.

• Review: Nonlinear Dynamics.

  By Jerry Huke.

• Review: The Origin of Chaos and Stability.

  By David Knapp.

• A look at the Journals in the Field of Mathematical Biology.

  By Denise Kirschner.

  This is a link to an article in the Mathematical Biology Newsletter 10:2, Spring 1997.

• Pacific Northwest Workshop in Mathematical Biology.

  By L.G. de Pillis.

  This is a link to an article in the Mathematical Biology Newsletter 10:2, Spring 1997.

• Mathematical Biology in New Zealand.

  By James Sneyd.

  This is a link to an article in the Mathematical Biology Newsletter 10:2, Spring 1997.

• A listing of reviews of nonlinear books can be found at

  http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/Applied/news.dir/issue7.dir/art/books.html (this article is periodically updated).

• A listing of Seminars in Applied Mathematics held in British Universities can be found at

  http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/Applied/news.dir/seminars.html

• WWW Links to other UK Groups can be found at

  http://www.ucl.ac.uk/CNDA/resources/uk.html

News

• The News Page
  • Conference Announcements.
    • Symmetry in Hamiltonian Dynamics (University of Surrey, 4-5 September 1997).
    • Combustion Theory (UMIST, 5th September 1997).
    • 7th International Conference on Numerical Combustion (30th March to 1st April 1998, York).
  • The ANM Spring School 1997.
  • Dynamics Days '97 cancelled.
  • Last Meeting of the ANM panel.
  • New software package: "Interactive Differential Equations".
  • Topological Methods in ODE's: The Mathematical Collaboration of M.L. Cartwright and J.E. Littlewood.
  • TUXEDO: The UK Spatially Extended Dynamics Organisation.
• Academic News:
  • Appointments.
    • Mario di Bernardo appointed to a 5 year temporary lectureship at Bristol.
    • Sophia Demoulini appointed to an EU TMR Fellowship at Oxford.
    • Gero Friesecke appointed to a lectureship in Applied Mathematics at Oxford.
    • Gary Froyland awarded JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship at The University of Tokyo
    • John Griffiths awarded a Personal Chair at Leeds.
    • James Robinson appointed to a Praelectorship in Applied Analysis at Oxford.
  • Visits and Visitors.
    • Alex Craik visits Kyoto University, Japan.
    • Rod Weber and Gregory Sivashinsky visit UMIST.
  • Graduation Project in "Dynamical Characterisation of Electronic Oscillators".
  • LMS supports Joint Research Group on Mathematical Physics.

Publishers' Announcements, Recent Theses, and Jobs

• Publishers' Announcements (UK Nonlinear News would like to carry reviews of these books in future issues).
  • WWW addresses for Publishers
  • New from American Mathematical Society
    • Discreteness and Continuity in Problems of Chaotic Dynamics.
    • Harmonic Analysis and Nonlinear Differential Equations.
    • Linear and Nonlinear Perturbations of the Operator div.
    • Mathematical Sciences Professional Directory.
    • Mathematics of Fractals.
  • New from Birkhäuser
    • Classical Nonintegrability, Quantum Chaos.
    • Laws of Chaos: Invariant Measures and Dynamical Systems in One Dimension
    • Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers
    .
  • New from Cambridge University Press
    • Dynamical Systems in Cosmology.
    • Modelling with Differential Equations.
  • New from de Gruyter
    • Sobolev Spaces of Fractional Order, Nemytskij Operators, and Nonlinear Partial Differentiation Equations.
    • Variational Methods for Potential Operator Equations: With Applications to Nonlinear Elliptic Equations.
  • New from Springer-Verlag
    • Analysis of Observed Chaotic Data.
    • Chaos: An Introduction to Dynamical Systems.
    • Economic Dynamics.
    • Invariant Manifolds and Fibrations for Perturbed Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations.
• A comprehensive listing of publishers' announcements carried in previous issues of UK Nonlinear News is available.
• Recent Theses
  • Bifurcation Properties of Dynamic Urban Models by Thomas Buchendorfer (IERC, Cranfield University).
  • Generalised Markov Coarse Graining and the Observables of Chaos by Donal MacKernan. (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
  • Semilinear problems and Spectral Theory by Wenying Feng (University of Glasgow).
  • Renormalisation for Siegel Discs by Andrew D. Burbanks (Loughborough University).
• Situations Vacant in Non-Linear Mathematics:
  • Studentships (Heriot-Watt University, Imperial, Napier University, University of Cambridge, UMIST)
  • Fellowships (EC Postdoctoral Research Fellowships; Federal Republic of Germany; Haverford College, Haverford, USA; Hewlett Packard Research Laboratory, USA; Los Alamos, USA; Magdalene College, Cambridge; National Research Council, USA; College University College London; University of Cambridge; University of Manchester; UMIST)
  • Lectureships (University of Michigan, University of Western Australia).
  • Chairs (University of East Anglia)

Journal News

• CHAOS: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science.
• May 1997 issue of Dynamics Notes released.
• Dynamics and Stability of Systems
  • Abstracts from Volume 12, Number 1 (March 1997).
  • Abstracts from Volume 12, Number 2 (June 1997).
  (These are links to DSS pages at UCL.)
• Spring 1997 issue of Mathematical Biology Newsletter released (Volume 10:2). (This is a link to MBN 10:2, Spring 1997.)
• The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics celebrates 50 years of publishing.

Meetings, Conferences and Events

• A comprehensive listing of mathematics conferences is maintained by the American Mathematical Society.
• A list of Dynamical Systems Conferences is available at SUNY Stony Brook.
• A Dynamics Calendar is maintained at Muenchen (Germany).
• Netlib Mathematics and Computer Science Conferences Database.
• The SIAM Conference Schedule is a listing of meetings and conferences organised by SIAM.

• Conferences New This Issue.
• Conferences Listed in Previous Issues.

• Conference Announcements listed in Previous Issues
• Announcement: LMS-EPSRC Instructional Conference on Integrable Systems (14-19 September 1997, Oxford).
• Announcement: Seventh International Conference on Numerical Combustion (30 March-1st April 1998, York).
• Announcement: The Mathematical Biology of Pattern and Process (6-9 April 1998, Bath).

Issue Ten: November 1997

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