UK Nonlinear News

Issue Thirty Two: May 2003

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Articles and Reviews

• Book Review: Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: Where do we go from here?.

  Reviewed by Jean-Luc Thiffeault.

• Book Review: Selfsimilar processes.

  Reviewed by Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen.

• Book Review: Symmetry and Integration Methods for Differential Equations.

  Reviewed by Peter Hydon.

• Report: Workshop Modern Trends in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.

  By Gert Van der Heijden.

• Report: The Pattern Formation and Nonlinear Dynamics (PANDA).

  By Rebecca Hoyle.

• Report: Solitary Waves in Nonlinear Mechanics .

  By Ciprian Coman and Ruslan Davidchack.

• 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.

News

• Academic:
  • Healthy Heart: insights from chaos and complexity science.
  • Mathematics in Industry Study Group visits New Zealand.
  • BLADE exhibit Movers and Shakers selected for Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition.
• Appointments:
  • Promotions at the Bristol Centre for Applied Nonlinear Mathematics.
  • Michele Vincenzo Bartuccelli appointed Reader in Mathematics at the University of Surrey

Recent Theses, Jobs, and Publishers' Announcements

• Situations Vacant in Non-Linear Mathematics
  • MSc (University of Surrey)
  • PhD Studentships (City University, New Zealand, Southampton Oceanography Centre, University of Surrey)
  • Postdoctoral Positions (University of Exeter, University of Leeds)
  • Lectureships (Imperial College London)
  • Nonlinear Dynamics in the real world.
• Publishers' Announcements (UK Nonlinear News may carry reviews of these books in future issues).
  • WWW addresses for Publishers
  • New from the American Mathematical Society
    • Ergodic Theory via Joinings
    • Spatial Deterministic Epidemics
  • New from Cambridge University Press
    • Chaos: A Mathematical Introduction
  • New from Princeton University Press
  • New from Springer
    • Mathematical Biology II: Spatial Models and Biomedical Applications
    • Trends in Nonlinear Analysis

• 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 .
• Journal: Dynamical Systems.
• Journal: New web page for Journal of Regular and Chaotic Dynamics.
• Table of Contents: Nonlinearity Volume 16(3), May 2003

Meetings, Conferences and Events

Meetings and Conferences

• Conference Announcements.
  • Workshop on the Structure and Stability of Interfacial Waves (15-16 May 2003 University of Loughborough)
  • Dynamics and Bifurcations of Patterns in Dissipative System (19-22 May 2003 Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO)
  • Fourth International Conference on Dynamic Systems and Applications  (21-24 May 2003 Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
  • Dynamical Systems, Denton 2003 (25-29 May 2003 University of North Texas in Denton TX)
  • Large Systems: Some Mathematical Problems and Perspectives (26-29 May 2003 Roma Accademia Deilincei)
  • Summer School on Nonlinear Phenomena in Computational Chemical Physics (9-14 June 2003 Barcelona)
  • 5th Dublin Differential Equations Conference (10-14 June 2003  Dublin City University, Ireland)
  • Two day meeting on Complex Fluids  (16-17 June 2003 University of the West of England, Bristol)
  • Fifth International Conference on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations (16-19 June 2003, Pomona, California, USA).
  • 2003 SIAM Annual Meeting (16-20 June 2003 Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, CA)
  • Instructional Conference on Mathematical Analysis of Hydrodynamics (18-29 June 2003 Edinburgh)
  • MATHTOOLS'2003 - Tools for Mathematical Modelling  (23-28 June 2003 Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
  • The Fifth International Conference on Symmetry in Nonlinear Mathematical Physics (June 23-29 2003 Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine)
  • Workshop on Attractors and Coupled Systems (27 June 2003 University of Exeter)
  • Infinite-Dimensional Dynamical Systems: Analysis, Applications and Control (14-18 July 2003 University of Exeter)
  • Summer School on Applications of Advanced Mathematical and Computational Methods to Atmospheric and Oceanic Problems (MCAO2003)  (14-26 July 2003 National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado)
  • Workshop on Stochastic Partial Differential Equations (4-14 August 2003, Warwick University).
  • International Conference on Mathematical Biology (6-9 August 2003, University of Dundee, Scotland).
  • Third Helmholtz-Institute Summer-School on Chaos and Stability in Planetary Systems (1-26 September 2003, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany)
  • Free Boundary Problems in Fluid Mechanics (15-18 September 2003, University of Nottingham).
  • Computational Modelling in Medicine (17-19 September 2003, Edinburgh, Scotland).
  • Mini-symposium on Theoretical, Modelling and Simulation Aspects of Smart Materials and Structures. (25-27 September 2003, Athens, Greece).
  • European Conference on Mathematics for Industry (21-25 June 2004, Eindhoven, The Netherlands).
  • Gordon Research Conference on  Oscillations & Dynamic Instabilities in Chemical Systems (18 - 23 July 2004 Bates College, Lewiston, Maine)
• Conference Listing.
• 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 Thirty Three: August 2003

Issue Thirty One is scheduled for 4th August 2003. 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 30th July.

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

Professor Jaroslav Stark,
Department of Mathematics
Imperial College London
180 Queen's Gate
London
SW7 2BZ
Fax: +44-(0)20-7594-8517