The human body is an incredibly complex dynamical system, which makes it an increasingly appealing subject for nonlinear dynamicists. For example, even when we stand upright, we are not motionless—the body oscillates continuously at a low amplitude. But as we lean farther from the vertical, our response becomes more complicated. In the language of dynamical systems, the upright position is an attractor: As long as the body is in the vicinity of that position, it will be drawn upright.

Getting back on my feet after the holiday rush and the expansion of our family: A meeting was held in mid-December to examine "The Impact of Modeling on Biomedical Research." This was held under the umbrella of the IMAG and the MSM Consortium.
The acronyms stand for Interagency Modeling and Analysis Group and the MultiScale Modeling Consortium, which are being operated by various federal science agencies, with the goal of helping the biomedical sciences get serious about modeling.
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Don Green and Holger Kern write on one of my favorite topics, treatment interactions (see also here):

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The successful candidate will join the Computational Science & Bioinformatics (CS&B) team of Philip Morris Products S.A. in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
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The Exposure Analysis Modeling System (EXAMS) is an interactive software application for formulating aquatic ecosystem models and evaluating the fate, transport, and exposure concentrations of synthetic organic chemicals including pesticides, industrial materials, and leachates from disposal sites. EXAMS contains an integrated Database Management System (DBMS) specifically designed for storage and management of project databases required by the software. User interaction is provided by a full-featured Command Line Interface (CLI), context-sensitive help menus, an on-line data dictionary and CLI user's guide, and plotting capabilities for review of output data. EXAMS provides 20 output tables that document the input data sets and provide integrated results summaries for aid in ecological risk assessments.

Andreas Carlson, Minh Do-Quang, and Gustav Amberg In this paper we present simulations of dynamic wetting far from equilibrium based on phase field theory. In direct simulations of recent experiments [J. C. Bird, S. Mandre, and H. A. Stone, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 234501 (2008)], we show that in order to correctly capture the dynamics of rapid wettin ... [Phys. Fluids 21, 121701 (2009)] published Fri Dec 11, 2009.

Computer modeling in engineering, weather modeling, climate modeling, medical modeling and work-related computer simulations. Read the latest research using computer models here.

Dezeenjobs: the Engineering Consulting Office for Utilities (ECOU) in Tripoli, Libya, are looking for 3D graphics and modeling experts:
3D Graphics and Modeling Experts

Openings: 2
The Engineering Consulting Office for Utilities (ECOU) is one of the main engineering consulting offices in Libyan Arab Jamahiriya that is involved in the design works of major projects. For the purposes [...]

University of Utah physicist Tim Garrett has published a study that approaches the economy and its relation to global warming as a physics problem — and comes to some controversial conclusions: that rising carbon dioxide emissions cannot be stabilized unless the world's economy collapses or society builds the equivalent of one new nuclear power plant each day. The study was panned by economists and was rejected by several journals before its acceptance in the journal Climatic Change. "[Garrett discovered that] Throughout history, a simple physical constant... links global energy use to the world's accumulated economic productivity, adjusted for inflation. So it isn't necessary to consider population growth and standard of living in predicting society's future energy consumption and resulting carbon dioxide emissions. ... 'I'm not an economist, and I am approaching the economy as a physics problem,' Garrett says.

Paul server guy writes "I work at a privately funded, open source, manned, return to the moon mission — Yes really, and Yes, we really are going to put man (and woman) back on the moon. Since we are open source, we want all of our tools to be, too. What we are looking for is CAD software that we can feed into Blender (or the like) to do 3D modeling with. Many of the engineers have tried working with Blender and Art of Illusion, but have not been pleased.

M. Sellier and E. Trelluyer This paper proposes a simple scenario to describe the coalescence of sessile droplets. This scenario predicts a power-law growth of the bridge between the droplets. The exponent of this power law depends on the driving mechanism for the spreading of each droplet. To validate this simple idea, the co ... [Biomicrofluidics 3, 022412 (2009)] published Fri Jun 19, 2009.

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I'll have the opportunity to sit in on a few talks during a conference on free energy calculations in drug design. Since I'm not a computational guy myself, I'll be picking my sessions carefully, but I am interested in hearing what the state of the art is.

Writing in American Antiquity, researchers from Arizona State University and North Carolina State University say archaeologists can use computational modeling to study the long-term effects of varying land use practices by farmers and herders on landscapes.
By using these techniques, archeologists can develop alternative computerized scenarios that can be compared with traditional archaeological records, possibly enhancing previous findings of how humans and the environment interact.

Antoine Predock, FAIA on Choreography of Architecture

I received the following question in the mail:

(National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)) Coral reef ecosystems are highly valued for their diverse fish and invertebrate communities that support multi-billion dollar reef fishing and tourism industries, but they are also threatened by regional human population growth and over-exploitation. The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) is now accepting applications for its Investigative Workshop, Modeling Reef Ecosystems, to be held July 21-23, 2010, at NIMBioS on the University of Tennessee-Knoxville campus.

Designer David Bowen has created a machine that scans an onion and makes a model of it every 24 hours. (more…)

(National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)) Coral reef ecosystems are highly valued for their diverse fish and invertebrate communities that support multi-billion dollar reef fishing and tourism industries, but they are also threatened by regional human population growth and over-exploitation. The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) is now accepting applications for its Investigative Workshop, Modeling Reef Ecosystems, to be held July 21-23, 2010, at NIMBioS on the University of Tennessee-Knoxville campus.

(National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)) Coral reef ecosystems are highly valued for their diverse fish and invertebrate communities that support multi-billion dollar reef fishing and tourism industries, but they are also threatened by regional human population growth and over-exploitation. The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) is now accepting applications for its Investigative Workshop, Modeling Reef Ecosystems, to be held July 21-23, 2010, at NIMBioS on the University of Tennessee-Knoxville campus.

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It is known that genetic predisposition to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with the MHC class II allele HLA-DR4 and that residues 261–273 of type II collagen (huCollp261) represent an immunodominant T cell epitope restricted by the DR4 molecule.

This story is pretty funny. "Distractions in the classroom," indeed. They take nursery school pretty seriously down there in Texas, huh?

Our view of marine microbes is transforming, as culture-independent methods facilitate rapid characterization of microbial diversity. It is difficult to assimilate this information into our understanding of marine microbe ecology and evolution, because their distributions, traits, and genomes are shaped by forces that are complex and dynamic.

C. C. Hegna and J. D. Callen A procedure to include the effects of externally applied rf sources in a comprehensive fluid model is outlined. The fluid equations are derived from moments of a kinetic equation that includes the effects of an rf source. In general, this source produces additional terms in each of the fluid equatio ... [Phys. Plasmas 16, 112501 (2009)] published Mon Nov 2, 2009.

D. C. Tranca and A. A. Neufeld A new method, non-Markovian quantum-classical approximation (NQCA), is suggested to model the photoisomerization of polyatomic molecules. The NQCA method can be successfully applied to follow the photoisomerization process for a wide class of reacting systems, namely, those for which the time scale ... [J. Chem. Phys. 132, 134109 (2010)] published Tue Apr 6, 2010.