UK Nonlinear News Issue 49

Articles and Reviews

Book Review: Patterns and interfaces in dissipative dynamics
Reviewed by Alastair Rucklidge

News

The Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) at the University of Minnesota announces membership opportunities in connection with its 2008-2009 thematic program on Mathematics and Chemistry. Individuals may apply for four classes of membership at the IMA in connection with the 2008-2009 thematic program: IMA Postdoctoral Fellowships; IMA Industrial Postdoctoral Fellowships; IMA General Memberships; IMA New Directions Research Professorships. Application deadline 5 January 2008.

Appointments

The School of Mathematics at the University of Leeds has appointed three new lecturers and one professor in Nonlinear Sciences, who join active groups working on Applied Nonlinear Dynamics and on Integrable Systems.

Mikhail Ivanchenko works on energy localisation, redistribution and equipartition processes in anharmonic Hamiltonian lattices, and on bursting and synchronisation in neuronal networks.
Thomas Wagenknecht investigates homoclinic snaking and homoclinic bifurcations from degenerate equilibria, and structured pseudospectra for eigenvalue problems arising in delay differential equations.
Jitse Niesen works on the numerical analysis of ODEs, Evans function methods and on algorithms for determining Lie symmetries of PDEs to find nonclassical symmetries.
Professor Simon Ruijsenaars investigates difference operators associated with quantum many-body problems, and is building a comprehensive theory of analytic difference equations from the perspective of Hilbert space theory.

Recent Theses

Bifurcations of Dynamical Systems with Symmetry
Ana Rodrigues, Dep. Matematica Pura, University of Porto, Portugal

Jobs

The Statistical Physics and Nonlinear Dynamics Group at the Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria (CSIC-UC) has an opening for a postdoctoral position starting as early as possible in 2008. Interested candidates should send a CV with publication list to Dr. Juan M. Lopez.
IMDEA is aiming to appoint researchers, both national and foreign, on a temporary or permanent basis, with special emphasis on applied and cross-disciplinary subjects.
The Courant Institute Department of Mathematics anticipates having a small number of faculty positions in mathematics to begin in September 2008. Appointments may be made at either a junior or senior level.
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at San Diego State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Applied Mathematics, beginning in Fall 2008.
The Centre for Nonlinear PDE at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford are inviting applications for two postdoctoral reseach fellowships in the analysis on nonlinear PDE.
School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia is offering a fixed term Research Associate position in Applied Mathematics.
The Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Applications (DIMAP), Warwick University, is offering three postdoctoral fellowships.