University of L’Aquila and SISSA Trieste have opened a call for ten positions in the PhD programme Mathematics in Natural, Social and Life Sciences, see details below. (For further information please contact info@gssi.infn.it, or visit webpages of the programme at http://www.gssi.infn.it/phd/.)

PROGRAM TITLE: Mathematics in Natural, Social and Life Sciences
(jointly with SISSA Trieste)

DEADLINE April 15, 2015 – 6pm
APPLICATIONS ARE ON LINE ONLY -PLEASE DO NO SEND ANYTHING IN DIFFERENT WAYS, IT WILL NOT GET ANY CONSIDERATION

The yearly amount of the scholarship is of € 16.159,91 gross

Official language of the PhD Programs: English

Duration: 3 years
Activities start on November 1st 2015

TOPICS: Stochastic Analysis, PDEs, Mathematical Modeling, Numerical Methods

Applicant are required to upload also a file containing a synthetic report of the core courses followed on the following topics:
1- Partial Differential Equations
2- Probability/stochastic processes
3- Functional Analysis
4- Numerical Analysis
5- Physics/continuum mechanics/fluid dynamics

For each course in this area, students should provide a short syllabus (no more than 10 lines) main textbooks, name of the instructors and possibly the link to the course home page.

Facilities and benefits
All PhD students will have tuition fees waived;
All PhD students will have free accommodation on GSSI facilities
All PhD students will have free luncheon vouchers
All PhD students will be covered by insurance against any accident and/or injury that may occur while carrying out their PhD activities.

Dear colleagues, we remind you that AIME@CZ — Czech workshop on applied mathematics in engineering organized by Didier Henrion, Josef Málek, Tomáš Pajdla, Zdeněk Strakoš and Miroslav Tůma starts on Tuesday, 24 February 2015. We are looking forward to see you at the workshop.

Dear colleagues, we have been sent the following announcement concerning a workshop in Italy. If you are interested in participation at the event, please contact us.

The Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi, Pisa, is happy to announce the workshop “Low dimensional geometric dynamics”, which will be held in Pisa, Italy, from April 20 to 24, 2015.

The aim of the workshop is to gather experts working on low dimensional dynamics from different perspectives.

Invited speakers:

Patrick Bernard
Barney Bramham

Keith Burns
Gonzalo Contreras
Daniel Cristofaro-Gardiner
Sylvain Crovisier

Joel Fish
Marian Gidea
Viktor Ginzburg

Doris Hein

Umberto Hryniewicz
Renato Iturriaga
Gerhard Knieper
Anatole Katok
Enrique Pujals
Federico Rodriguez Herz

Martín Sambarino
Jan Philip Schröder

Scientific Committee

Alberto Abbondandolo,
Helmut Hofer,
Patrice Le Calvez

For more information see: http://www.crm.sns.it/event/339/

Participation is open to everybody, but participants are kindly requested to register here <http://crm.sns.it/event/339/registration.html>. There is no registration fee. The Secretariat of the De Giorgi Center will be glad to give you any practical information and logistic support.

Looking forward to seeing you in Pisa.

Stefano Marmi
Director

Dear colleagues,

we kindly invite you to the 13th Colloquium Lecture of School of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague. Professor Andrea Cianchi (University of Florence, Italy) will give a lecture on Eigenfunctions of the Laplace-Beltrami operator and geometric inequalities.

Dear students,

summer semester 2014/2015 is ready to begin. The meeting of all students of mathematical modelling (fixing the schedule for optional lectures, and so forth) will take place on Monday, February 16 at 15:40 in the lecture hall K1. We kindly ask all students to participate in the meeting.

A preliminary schedule for the summer semester 2014/2015 is available in SIS.

Dear colleagues, we have been sent the following announcement concerning a summer school in France. If you are interested in participation at the event, please contact us.

Dear colleagues,

We are organizing a workshop/summer school on “Fluid-structure interactions and vortex dynamics in aerodynamics”
in Porquerolles Island (Hyeres, South of France) from june 29, 2015 to july 4, 2015.

The program of invited lectures is
– Basics of Aerodynamics
J. Sørensen (DTU, Copenhagen, Denmark)
I. Delbende (LIMSI-CNRS, UPMC, France)
– Dynamics and instabilities of vortices
T. Leweke (IRPHE, CNRS, Marseille, France)
M. Rossi (IJLRA-UPMC, CNRS, Paris, France)
Y. Fukumoto (Kyushu University, Japan)
– Fluid-structure interactions
S. Michelin (LadHyX, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France)
C. Eloy (IRPHE, Centrale Marseille, France)
-Applications: helicopters, wind turbines, other flying objects
M. Costes (DAAP, ONERA, Meudon, France)
S. Ivanell (Uppsala University, Sweden)
J. Eldredge (UCLA, USA)

More details on the workshop can be found on the workshop web site

http://helix2015.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en

Abstract for contributed talks should be submitted before March 1st, 2015.
Please feel free to forward this email to colleagues and students who may be interested in attending.
Looking forward to seeing you at the workshop.

Sincerely yours,
Stéphane Le Dizès
Ivan Delbende
C. Eloy
T. Leweke
M. Rossi

Dear colleagues, we have benn sent the following announcement concerning a summer school at the University of Chicago. If you are interested in participation at the event, please contact us.

We are organizing an RTG funded summer school at the University of Chicago between June 16 – July 3, 2015. The school is intended for advanced undergraduates but it is also suitable for beginning graduate students. This three week event will consist of week long minicourseson the following topics

Partial Differential Equations (by P. Souganidis and L. Silvestre)
Solitons and integrable systems (by W. Schlag)
Pseudodifferential operators with applications to linear Schrodinger
equations (by Carlos Kenig)
An Introduction to Fourier Series (by R. Fefferman)
Introduction to percolation and growth models (by A. Auffinger)
Differentiability of functions and measures (by M. Csornyei)
Computing with deterministic and stochastic differential equations (by
Jonathan Weare)

More information and the online application form is available on http://math.uchicago.edu/~chicagoanalysis/

Financial support will be available to some highly qualified applicants. Per NSF regulations RTG funding is restricted to US citizens and permanent residents. Housing will be available in the university dormitories for those participants receiving financial aid. Participants who do receive financial support will be responsible for their own accommodations. For further information, please look at the school’s website mentioned above.

Dear colleagues, please see the attached list of international schools that will be held at the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Udine, Italy. If you are a student of mathematical modelling and you are interested in some of the schools, please contact us (Josef Málek, Vít Průša). Mathematical Institute could provide you some funding for participation at the chosen event.

The International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM) Udine, Italy, will organize among others the following Advanced Schools:
 
Bone Cell and Tissue Mechanics
Udine, June 22-26, 2015
Coordinated by
Bert van Rietbergen (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands).

Information about the contents of this course and the procedure for admission can be found at http://www.cism.it/courses/C1503/.
 
Mechanics of Liquid and Solid Foams
Udine, July 13-17, 2015
Coordinated by
Andrew Kraynik (Sandia National Laboratories, USA and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) and Stelios Kyriakides (University of Texas at Austin, USA).

Information about the contents of this course and the procedure for admission can be found at http://www.cism.it/courses/C1506/.
 
Material Parameter Identification and Inverse Problems in Soft Tissue Biomechanics
Udine, October 12-16, 2015
Coordinated by
Stéphane Avril (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines, France) and Sam Evans (Cardiff School of Engineering, UK).

Information about the contents of this course and the procedure for admission can be found at http://www.cism.it/courses/C1511/.
 
We hope that these activities can be of interest.

Thanking you for your kind attention, please refer to our website for detailed and further info.

Professor Bernhard Schrefler
Secretary General of CISM

A list of interesting events in 2015.

Josef Málek and Zdeněk Strakoš have written a book on preconditioning and the conjugate gradient method in the context of solving partial differential equations. The book is about the interplay between modeling, analysis, discretization, matrix computation, and model reduction. The authors link analysis of partial differential equations, functional analysis, and calculus of variations with matrix iterative computation using Krylov subspace methods and address the challenges that arise during formulation of the mathematical model through to efficient numerical solution of the algebraic problem.

The book’s central concept, preconditioning of the conjugate gradient method, is traditionally developed algebraically using the preconditioned finite-dimensional algebraic system. In this text, however, preconditioning is connected to the PDE analysis, and the infinite-dimensional formulation of the conjugate gradient method and its discretization and preconditioning are linked together. This text challenges commonly held views, addresses widespread misunderstandings, and formulates thought-provoking open questions for further research.