European Women in Mathematics: proceedings of the tenth general meeting, Malta, 24-30 August 2001
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Körperschaft: European Women in Mathematics Meeting < 2001, Malta> (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: River Edge, N.J. World Scientific c2003
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1. About the organization European Women in Mathematics -- - Presentation of EWM -- - History of the EWM office: a brief history of the EWM office in Helsinki, 1991-2001 - Marjatta Näätänen -- - History of the EWM meetings: a brief account of the meetings since the 5th meeting in Luminy - Emilia Mezzetti - Sylvie Paycha -- - Report on EWM activites: a report on activities since the 9th meeting in Loccum - Laura Fainsilber -- - About EWM proceedings: the mathematical part of EWM meetings - Capi Corrales Rodriganez - Laura Tedeschini Lalli -- - 2. Photo gallery -- - 3. Contributions -- - 3. Mathematics applied to finance -- - Introduction - Derivatives: a scientific revolution of the seventies - Francine Diener -- - Why heavy tails in financial series? Estimations and tests - Monique Pontier -- - Portfolio optimization in finance - Nadine Bellamy -- - Report on discussion on The ethics of using mathematics in finance - Francine Diener -- - 3.2 Geometry --
- 3.2.1 Cohomology theories: a useful tool in geometry -- - Introduction - Emilia Mezzetti - Sylvie Paycha -- - Analytical and geometrical features of de Rham and Dolbeault's cohomologies - Chiara de Fabritiis -- - McKay correspondence - a bridge from algebra to geometry - Yukari Ito -- - Total positivity, flag varieties and quantum cohomology - Konstanze Rietsch -- - 3.2.2 The uses of geometry -- - Introduction - Tsou Sheung Tsun -- - Calabi-Yau manifolds and mirror symmetry - Xenia de la Ossa -- - Why is there hyperbolic geometry in dynamics? - Caroline Series -- - Tessellations and related modular groups - Asia Ivić Weiss -- - 3.3 EMS lectures on convex polytopes -- - Introduction to the EMS lectures - Michele Vergne - Bodil Branner -- - Residue formulae for Verlinde sums, and for number of integral points in convex rational polytopes - Michèle Bergne -- - 3.4 Poster session -- - Report - Tatiana Ivanova --
- 3.5 Mathematics outside the classroom: cultural differences -- - Introduction - Laura Fainsilber, Marie-Françoise Roy - Rosa Maria Spitaleri -- - Raising public awareness in mathematics: the WMY2000 experience - Mireille Chaleyat-Maurel -- - Popularization of mathematics: local and global perspectives - Franka Miriam Brückler -- - 3.6 Socio-political dimension of gender inequality -- - Introduction - Laura Fainsilber, Marie-Françoise Roy - Rosa Maria Spitaleri -- - Women and science in Europe and in France - Claudine Hermann -- - Focus on Italian activities in women and science - Rosa Maria Spitaleri -- - Mathematicians' careers - analysis of a questionnaire - Ina Kersten - Emilia Mezzetti -- - Short communications -- - Hankel operators on generalized Bergman-Hardy spaces - Bettina Rehberg -- - M[alpha]th-kit: a multimedia project for learning and teaching mathematics - Sabine Schiller - Luise Unger
This volume can be divided into two parts: a purely mathematical part with contributions on finance mathematics, interactions between geometry and physics and different areas of mathematics; another part on the popularization of mathematics and the situation of women in mathematics
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ISBN:1281906026
9781281906021
9789812381903
9789812704276
9812381902
9812704272

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