Issue Fifteen: February 1999

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Articles and Reviews

• Book Review: Analysis, simulation, dynamics of chemical reactors: Introduction to some fundamental techniques.

  Reviewed by Harvinder S. Sidhu.

• Book Review: Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory.

  Reviewed by Jaroslav Stark.

• Book Review: Fractals, scaling and growth far from equilibrium.

  Reviewed by Miroslav M. Novak.

• Book Review: Nonlinear Dynamics of Interacting Populations.

  Reviewed by Jonathan Swinton.

• Report: Fractal 98 .

  By Miroslav M. Novak.

• Report: London Mathematical Society Scheme 3 Grant: BIFURCATION AND SYMMETRY .

  By David Chillingworth.

• 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.

• 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
  • Award: Lewis Fry Richardson Medal Awarded to Professor Raymond Hide.
  • Discrete versions of the Boltzmann equation.
  • Software: New Recurrence Analysis software.
  • Software: Software and tutorials available for recurrence quantification analysis (RQA).
  • UKIE Siam Section: UKIE Elections.
  • UK Nonlinear News: Sakse Orstavik steps down as UK Nonlinear News editor.
  • UK Nonlinear News: Cliburn Chan joins UK Nonlinear News editorial board.
  • Web Resource Site in Control Theory and Engineering.
  • Second TUXEDO meeting of the year 3 March 1999.

• Academic News:
  • Appointments.
    • Professor Howell Tong has accepted the Chair of Statistics at the London School of Economics.
    • Alex Craik appointed to a visiting position at Kyoto University.
    • Vadim Kuznetsov awarded 5-year Advanced Research Fellowship from the EPSRC..
    • Dr Gary Froyland appointed Research Associate at the University of Paderborn.

Recent Theses, Jobs, and Publishers' Announcements

• Recent Theses
  • Dissipative dynamical systems : the shape of the Lorenz chaotic attractor and the number of Liénard limit cycles by Sebastien Neukirch (Universite de Tours).
• Situations Vacant in Non-Linear Mathematics:
  • Studentships (University College London, University of Surrey, University of Liverpool, University of Cambridge)
  • Postdoctoral Fellowships (Universities of Bath and Nottingham )
  • Lectureship (Loughborough University x2 )
  • Full Professor Positions (University of Vienna, Austria )
• Publishers' Announcements (UK Nonlinear News would like to carry reviews of these books in future issues).
  • WWW addresses for Publishers
  • New from the American Mathematical Society
    • Complex Dynamical Systems: The Mathematics Behind the Mandelbrot and Julie Sets.
  • New from Birkhauser
  • New from Cambridge University Press
    • Dynamical Systems and Numerical Analysis.
  • New from Springer Verlag
    • Chaos for Engineers.
    • Constructive Nonlinear Control.
    • Nonlinear Theory of Shallow Shells.
    • Stabilization of Nonlinear Uncertain Systems.
  • A comprehensive listing of publishers' announcements carried in previous issues of UK Nonlinear News is available.

Journal News

• Web Pages for Nonlinear Journals and Newsletters.
• American Psychological Association accepts Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences as a part of its PsycINFO information system.
• Call for Papers: Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems.
• NONLINEARITY Contents list Volume 12, Issue 1, January 1999.
• Electronic Journal of Dfferential Equations.

Meetings, Conferences and Events

Meetings and Conferences

• Full Conference Listing.

• Conference Announcements listed in Previous Issues
• Research Program in TURBULENCE (January to June 1999, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences).
• Combustion Meeting in Honour of Professor Brian F. Gray (11-12 February 1999, Mollymook, New South Wales, Australia).
• Wavelets: The Key to Intermittent Information? (24-25 February 1999, The Royal Society, London)
• 1999 British Applied Mathematics Colloquium (12-15th April 1999, University of Bath).
• Foundations of Computational Mathematics (18-28th July 1998, Oxford)
• Equadiff 99 (1-7 August 1999, Berlin).
• Stochastic and Chaotic Dynamics in the Lakes (16-20 August 1999, Ambleside, England)

• 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.

Issue Sixteen: May 1999

Issue Fifteen is scheduled for 3rd May 1999. 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 28th April.

All material should ideally should be sent by email to uk-nonl@ucl.ac.uk.

Format: submissions will be converted to HTML, so feel free to include any WWW links. We have an automatic converter for LaTeX, and for several other word processor formats. Plain text email is also fine.

If necessary, paper copy can instead be sent to
Dr. Jaroslav Stark,
UK Nonlinear News,
Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics and its Applications,
University College London,
Gower Street,
London, WC1E 6BT, UK.
Facsimile: 071-380-0986.