This volume is the result of a meeting that took place at the University of Ghent (Belgium) on the relations between Hilbert's tenth problem, arithmetic, and algebraic geometry. Included are written articles detailing the lectures that were given as well as contributed papers on topics of interest.

This volume grew out of two AMS conferences held at Columbia University and the Stevens Institute of Technology and presents articles on a wide variety of topics in group theory. Readers will find a variety of contributions, including a collection of over 170 open problems in combinatorial group theory, three survey papers (on boundaries of hyperbolic groups, on fixed points of free group automorphisms, and on groups of automorphisms of compact Riemann surfaces), and several original research papers that represent the diversity of contemporary trends in combinatorial and geometric group...

This volume is a collection of papers that were presented at a special session on integrable systems and Riemann-Hilbert problems. The goal of the meeting was to foster new research by bringing together experts from different areas. Their contributions to the volume provide a useful portrait of the breadth and depth of integrable systems. Topics covered include discrete Painleve equations, integrable nonlinear partial differential equations, random matrix theory, Bose-Einstein condensation, spectral and inverse spectral theory and last passage percolation models. In most of these articles,...

Presents papers from the Fourth Conference on Function Spaces. This book covers a broad range of topics, including spaces and algebras of analytic functions of one and of many variables (and operators on such spaces), $L DEGREESp$-spaces, spaces of Banach-valued functions, isometries of function spaces, and geometry of Banach

How is the United States different in comparison to other states? Why is it different? Addressing these questions can only be done through comparison of distinctive historical development, paths of institutional evolution and cultural differences as they have developed and manifested themselves through different policies for similar problems. The United States is compared with Sweden on tax policy, Canada on financing medical care, France on abortion policy, and Japan on immigration. Ideal for classroom discussion, The Roots of American Exceptionalism is likely to generate debate and...

This volume contains 36 research papers written by prominent researchers. The papers are based on a large satellite conference on scientific computing held at the International Congress of Mathematics (ICM) in Xi'an, China. Topics covered include a variety of subjects in modern scientific computing and its applications, such as numerical discretization methods, linear solvers, parallel computing, high performance computing, and applications to solid and fluid mechanics, energy, environment, and semiconductors. The book will serve as an excellent reference work for graduate students and...

This volume contains proceedings of the conference on Trends in Banach Spaces and Operator Theory, which was devoted to recent advances in theories of Banach spaces and linear operators. Included in the volume are 25 papers, some of which are expository, while others present new results.

This volume contains 21 articles based on invited talks given at two international conferences held in France in 2001. Most of the papers are devoted to various problems of commutative algebra and their relation to properties of algebraic varieties. The book is suitable for graduate students and research mathematicians interested in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry.

This book presents the proceedings of two conferences, Resolution des singularites et geometrie non commutative and the Annapolis algebraic geometry conference. Research articles in the volume cover various topics of algebraic geometry, including the theory of Jacobians, singularities, applications to cryptography, and more. The book is suitable for graduate students and research mathematicians interested in algebraic geometry.

This text contains the proceedings of the special session in honor of Leonard Gross held at the annual Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans (LA). The speakers were specialists in a variety of fields, and many were Professor Gross's former PhD students and their descendants.