European Women in Mathematics: Proceedings of the Tenth General Meeting Malta 24-30 August 2001

by Mezzetti, Emilia; Paycha, Sylvie

• ISBN13: 9789812381903
• ISBN10: 9812381902
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction	p. 1
About the Organization European Women in Mathematics: Presentation of EWM	p. 5
A brief history of the EWM office in Helsinki, 1991-2001	p. 7
A brief account of the meetings since the 5th meeting in Luminy	p. 9
A report on activities since the 9th meeting in Loccum	p. 13
The mathematical part of EWM meetings	p. 17
Photo Gallery
Contributions
Mathematics applied to finance
Introduction	p. 39
Derivatives: a scientific revolution of the seventies	p. 41
Why heavy tails in financial series? Estimations and tests	p. 53
Portfolio optimization in finance	p. 71
Report on discussion on The ethics of using mathematics in finance	p. 93
Geometry
Cohomology theories: a useful tool in geometry	p. 99
Introduction	p. 99
Analytical and geometrical features of de Rham and Dolbeault's cohomologies	p. 101
The McKay correspondence - A bridge from algebra to geometry	p. 127
Total positivity, flag varieties and quantum cohomology	p. 149
The uses of geometry	p. 169
Introduction	p. 169
Calabi-Yau manifolds and mirror symmetry	p. 171
Why is there hyperbolic geometry in dynamics?	p. 191
Tessellations and related modular groups	p. 209
EMS lectures on convex polytopes
Introduction to the EMS lectures by Michele Vergne	p. 223
Residue formulae for Verlinde sums, and for number of integral points in convex rational polytopes	p. 225
Preface	p. 225
Residue formulae for Bernoulli polynomials and Verlinde sums	p. 227
Residue formulae for volumes and number of integral points in convex rational polytopes	p. 245
Poster session
Report	p. 289
Abstracts of the posters	p. 293
Mathematics outside the classroom: cultural differences
Introduction	p. 321
Raising public awareness in mathematics: the WMY2000 experience	p. 323
Popularization of mathematics: local and global perspectives	p. 335
Socio-political dimension of gender inequality
Introduction	p. 349
Women and science in Europe and in France	p. 351
Focus on Italian activities in women and science	p. 359
Mathematicians' careers - analysis of a questionnaire	p. 367
Short communications
Hankel operators on generalized Bergman-Hardy spaces	p. 375
Math-kit: a multimedia project for learning and teaching mathematics	p. 383
Minutes of the general assembly	p. 389
Committee members	p. 397
Coordinators	p. 399
List of participants	p. 405
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