European Women In Mathematics Proceedings Of The Tenth General Meeting Malta 2430 August 2001 Emilia Mezzetti Sylvie Paycha European Women In Mathematics Meeting Eds by Emilia Mezzetti; Sylvie Paycha; European Women In Mathematics. Meeting (eds.) 9789812381903, 9812381902 instant download after payment.

This volume is an outgrowth of the Third International Symposium on Hamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics. The main topics are Arnold diffusion, central configurations, singularities in few-body problems, billiards, area-preserving maps, and geometrical mechanics. All papers in the volume went through the refereeing process typical of a mathematical research journal 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