UK Nonlinear News

Issue Twenty Three: February 2001

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Articles and Reviews

• Post-Graduate Program in Applied Mathematics at Sergio Arboleda University

  By Reinaldo Nunez.

   

• Book Review: Introduction to discrete dynamical systems and chaos.

  Reviewed by Jeroen Lamb.

   

• Book Review: Numerical Methods for Bifurcation Problems and Large-Scale Dynamical Systems.

  Reviewed by Harvinder Sidhu.

   

• Report: UK and Republic of Ireland SIAM Section Annual Meeting 2001.

  By Andy Wathen.

   

• Report: Southern Bifurcation Meetings

  By David Chillingworth

• Workshop on Homoclinics and Heteroclinics.

  By Jeroen Lamb.

• Workshop on Dynamics and Intermittency.

  By Peter Ashwin.

   

• Report: Ergodic Theory and Complex Dynamics Meeting.

  By Omri Sarig.

   

• Report: Mathematical Biology in Loughborough

  By Markus Owen.

• 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).

   

• An index of UK Nonlinear News can be found at

  http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/Applied/news.dir/uknonl-index.html.

   

• WWW Links to other UK Groups can be found at

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

News

• Academic
• Professor Robert Mackay elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society
• Visit of Professor Constantine M. Dafermos to Oxford University
• Appointments:
  • Two new Chairs in Mathematics at the University of Surrey
  • Stephen Wiggins appointed Professor at Bristol University
  • Andrew Hone appointed to a lectureship at the University of Kent.
  • Dr Georg Gottwald appointed as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Surrey
  • Dr Ekaterina E Pavlovskaia appointed as Research Fellow in Nonlinear Dynamics at the University of Aberdeen
• Help required: chaos theory and social services.
• Mailing list: Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics.
• New website for the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences.
• Nonlinear Dynamics in Polymer Science and Related Fields.
• Obituary: Jürgen K. Moser (1928-1999).
• Web: Navier-Stokes equations net

Recent Theses, Jobs, and Publishers' Announcements

• Recent Theses
• Analysis and Numerics for the Local and Global Dynamics of Periodically Forced Nonlinear Pendula (University of Surrey)
• Situations Vacant in Non-Linear Mathematics:
  • Studentships (University of Bristol, University of Lancaster, University College London, University of Nottingham, University of Strathclyde and University of Glasgow, University of Surrey, University of York; MASIE)
  • Postdoctoral Positions (State University of Sao Paulo, Brazil; Tel Aviv University, Israel; University of Padova, Italy; University of Waterloo, Canada; MASIE )
  • Lectureships (University College London; Bristol University)
• Publishers' Announcements (UK Nonlinear News may carry reviews of these books in future issues).
  • WWW addresses for Publishers
  • New from Cambridge University Press
    • Wave Motion
    • Self-Organized Biological Dynamics and Nonlinear Control
  • New from Oxford University Press
    • Virus Dynamics: Mathematical Principles of Immunology and Virology
  • New from Springer
    • Hard Ball Systems and the Lorentz Gas
  • New from World Scientific
    • The Chaos Avant-Garde: Memories of the Early Days of Chaos Theory
• A listing of publishers' announcements carried in previous issues of UK Nonlinear News is available.

Journal News

• A listing of web pages for nonlinear journals and newsletters is kept at http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/Applied/news.dir/journals.html .
• Article: The Quadratic Family as a Qualitatively Solvable Model of Chaos.
• Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences to be indexed in MEDLINE.
• New Journal: Stochastics and Dynamics.
• New Journal: Journal of Vibroengineering

Meetings, Conferences and Events

Meetings and Conferences

• Conference Announcements.
  • Modelling Cell Systems: The Post Genomic Challenge (15 - 16 February 2001)
  • Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics in Control Theory (5 March 2001, University of Exeter)
  • The Dynamics of Continuum Systems (15 March 2001, Leeds University)
  • Random Partial Differential Equations (26 March 2001, University of Warwick)
  • Dynamics Days Europe 2001 (5-8 June 2001, Dresden, Germany)
  • Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: where should we go from here? (8-10 June 2001, University of Bristol)
  • Gordon Research Conference: Nonlinear Science (17-22 June 2001)
  • European Interdisciplinary School on Nonlinear Dynamics for System and Signal Analysis EUROATTRACTOR2001 (June 19-28 2001, Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Warsaw)
  • Analysis and Continuation of Bifurcations (21-22 June 2001, Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
  • Non-Hyperbolic Dynamical Systems (June 25 - July 6 2001, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen)
  • Progress in Partial Differential Equations (9-13 July 2001, Edinburgh)
  • Conference on Geometry, Symmetry and Mechanics (11-16 July 2001, Lisbon)
  • Integrable Systems (July to December 2001, Newton Institute, Cambridge)
  • Second International Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Summer School (13-25August 2001, Lutherstadt Wittenberg)
  • Mechanics and Symmetry Euro Summer School (2-15 September 2001, Peyresq, France)
  • Warwick Symposium on Geometry, Mechanics and Symmetry (September 2001-July 2002, University of Warwick)
• Conference Listing.
• Call for papers.
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-Part I: Special Issue on Applications of Chaos in Modern Communication Systems
• 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.
• UK Symposia Web Site.

Issue Twenty-Four: May 2001

Issue twenty-four is scheduled for 7th May 2001. Submission of news (new courses, meetings, conferences, new appointments, jobs, new research directions etc.), comments or articles about any aspect of nonlinearity in the UK are very welcome and should arrive by Wednesday 3rd May.

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