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One-day workshop on Dynamical Systems in Trieste, Wednesday 11 January 2017.

Talks:

• Stefano Galatolo (Pisa),  “A functional analytic approach for skew products with weakly contracting fibers. Application to the statistical stability.”
• Maurizio Monge (UFRJ, Brazil), “Rigorous computation in random dynamics and computer-aided proof of noise-induced-order.”
• Davide Ravotti (Bristol), “Ergodic properties of area-preserving flows on compact surfaces.”
• Oliver Butterley (ICTP), “Open Sets of Exponentially Mixing Anosov Flows.”

Further information: https://indico.ictp.it/event/8117/.

Spring school in convex symplectic geometry: Bochum, 20-24 February 2017

For more information see:

https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ffm/Lehrstuehle/Lehrstuhl-VII/springschool17.html.en

Note: The school will cover travel and lodging expenses of a limited number of participants. See the above web site for instructions about how to participate.

1 Postdoctoral position (type B) in Applied Mathematics / Mathematical Physics, Department of Mathematical Sciences “G. L. Lagrange”, Politecnico di Torino

Deadline for applications: 12th January 2017

Call: https://www.swas.polito.it/services/concorsi/assric.asp?id_documento_padre=134082

The selected candidate is expected to start his/her appointment on 16th February 2017.

Research topics include:

• Vehicular and pedestrian traffic models

• Boltzmann-type kinetic equations

• Fokker-Planck asymptotic analysis

• Multiscale conservation laws, transport of measures

• Uncertainty quantification, generalised polynomial chaos

For informal inquiries contact andrea.tosin@polito.it

Wednesday, 14th December 2016, 14:30 - 15:30 (ICTP)

Title: “Small divisor problems: some old and new open problems”

Venue:  Luigi Stasi Seminar Room, ICTP.

The Floer Centre of Geometry invites applications for a 3 years postdoctoral fellowship to pursue research in mathematics at the University of Bochum.

The deadline for applications is January 15, 2017.

Information on the position and instructions for applying can be found at the link: https://www.floer.rub.de/index.html.en

17 PhD and 8 postdoc positions in mathematics are currently available at the universities of Bochum, Cologne and Münster within the Collaborative Research Centre / Transregio (CRC/TRR 191) on “Symplectic Structures in Geometry, Algebra and Dynamics”.

The deadline for the applications is January 6, 2017.

Information on the projects and instructions for applying can be found at the link: https://www.mi.uni-koeln.de/~geiges/SFB-ausschreibung.pdf

It is with great pleasure that I announce that the DinAmicI now have a Twitter profile! https://twitter.com/DinAmicI

For the moment the tweets will just be pointers to each new post on the DAI website, with proper hashtagging for fast search. More elaborated and/or fun uses may be envisaged for the future.

So follow the @DinAmicI!

The INdAM Doctoral Programme fellowships in Mathematics and/or Applications Cofunded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (INdAM-DP-COFUND-2015) offers fellowships in the framework of the European Horizon 2020 programme “Marie Skłodowska-Curie Co-funding of Regional, National and International Programmes”. These fellowships offer to researchers from all over the world the opportunity to enter a PhD School in Italy.

Application deadlines: 31 March 2017 (Call 1), TBA (Call 2).

More info at: https://cofund.altamatematica.it/dp-2015/main/website

Selection for 4 post-doc research positions named “Junior Visiting Positions”. The positions will concern the following subject matters:

• Position n. 1: Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory;

• Position n. 2: Topology, Differential Geometry and Geometric Analysis;

• Position n. 3: Partial Differential Equations and Probability;

• Position n. 4: Dynamical Systems, as part of the research project “Dynamics and Information Theory Research Institute” (Convenzione 2014 Scuola-Unicredit S.p.a.).

Application deadline: the application must be registered online by 23.59 (Italian time) of January 10th 2017.

The First DinAmicI Day to be held at Gran Sasso Science Institute in L’Aquila is approaching. For people arriving on the 24th, we are meeting at the restaurant “Il primo papavero” for dinner.

This is the program of the event (25 November 2016):

9:00-9:50   Mauro Artigiani, “Lagrange spectrum of Veech translation surfaces” 10:00-10:50  Anna Miriam Benini, “Singular values and periodic points” 11:00-11:30  Coffee Break 11:30-12:20  Sara Munday, “Slippery Devil’s Staircases”

12:45-14:30  Lunch Break