The modern theory of quadratic forms has connections with a broad spectrum of mathematical areas including number theory, geometry, and K-theory. This book contains papers presented at the International Conference on the algebraic and arithmetic theory of quadratic forms held in Talca (Chile).

Based on the conference that is organized to discuss research in variational methods as applied to nonlinear elliptic PDE, this title includes both survey and research papers that address important open questions and offer suggestions on analytical and numerical techniques for solving those open problems.

Contains the proceedings of the research conference, 'Waves in Periodic and Random Media'. This book includes such topics as spectral theory of periodic differential operators, Anderson localization and spectral theory of random operators, photonic crystals, and waveguide theory. It is suitable for students of mathematical physics.

Contains both survey and research articles on methods of optimal mass transport and applications in physics.

This volume contains the proceedings of the conference on Advances in Quantum Dynamics. The purpose of the conference was to assess the current state of knowledge and to outline future research directions of quantum dynamical semigroups on von Neumann algebras. Since the appearance of the landmark papers by F. Murray and J. von Neumann, On the Rings of Operators, von Neumann algebras have been used as a mathematical model in the study of time evolution of quantum mechanical systems. Following the work of M. H. Stone, von Neumann, and others on the structure of one-parameter groups of unitary...

The papers in this collection were presented at the First Ahlfors-Bers Colloquium - a conference held in the tradition of Lars Ahlfors and Lipman Bers. These conferences have been perpetuated to honour and carry on the work of Ahlfors and Bers, whose fundamental works in the field of complex analysis so influenced their students, colleagues and a new generation of mathematicians.

Contains papers by participants of the Chapel Hill Ergodic Theory Workshops organized in February 2004, 2005, and 2006. This book covers topics that illustrate the interaction between ergodic theory and related fields such as harmonic analysis, number theo

Based on talks presented at the Summer School on Interactions between Homotopy theory and Algebra held at the University of Chicago in 2004, this book intends to create a resource for background and for the directions of research related to deep connection

A collection of articles dedicated to quantum graphs, an interdisciplinary field related to various areas of mathematics and physics. It presents methods from different areas of mathematics: number theory, combinatorics, mathematical physics, differential

Contains a collection of papers that brings together fundamental research in Radon transforms, integral geometry, and tomography. This book offers articles that deal with the determination of properties of functions on a manifold by integral theoretic meth