Cargando…
European Women in Mathematics : proceedings of the tenth general meeting, Malta, 24-30 August 2001 /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor Corporativo: | |
| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
River Edge, N.J. :
World Scientific,
©2003.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.