This conference gathered together a small group of people with similar interests in the geometric function theory of several complex variables. While the speeches were of a specialized nature, the papers in the proceedings are largely of a survey and speculative nature. The volume is intended to serve both students and researchers as an invitation to active new areas of research. The level of the writing has been intentionally set in such a way that the papers will be accessible to a broad audience.

Harmonic analysis is a venerable part of modern mathematics. Its roots began, perhaps, with late eighteenth-century discussions of the wave equation. Using the method of separation of variables, it was realized that the equation could be solved with a data function of the form?(x)= sin jx for j? Z.Itwasnaturaltoask, using the philosophy of superposition, whether the equation could then be solved with data on the interval 0, ?] consisting of a nite linear combinationof the sin jx. With an af rmative answer to that question, one is led to ask about in?nite linear combinations. This was an...

The implicit function theorem is part of the bedrock of mathematical analysis and geometry. Finding its genesis in eighteenth century studies of real analytic functions and mechanics, the implicit and inverse function theorems have now blossomed into powerful tools in the theories of partial differential equations, differential geometry, and geometric analysis.

There are many different forms of the implicit function theorem, including (i) the classical formulation for C^k functions, (ii) formulations in other function spaces, (iii) formulations for non-smooth...