European Women In Mathematics - Proceedings Of The 13th General Meeting

• Main Author: Sylvie Paycha, Catherine Hobbs
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore World Scientific Publishing Company 2009
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Congresses; Europe; Mathematics; SCIENCE; Women in mathematics; Women mathematicians
• ISBN: 9814277681; 9789814277686; 9814277673; 9789814277679

Table of Contents:

• Intro -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Organizing Committees -- Part A Invited Talks -- Deformation Quantisation and Connections S. Gutt -- 1. Quantization -- 2. Basic definitions -- 3. Symplectic case: star products and symplectic connections -- 3.1. Fedosov's construction -- 4. Star products on Poisson manifolds -- 4.1. Star products on Poisson manifolds and formality -- 4.2. Kontsevich's formality for Rd -- 4.3. Universal star product and universal formality -- Universal star product -- Universal formality -- References -- What is Symplectic Geometry? D. McDu -- 1. First notions -- 2. Symplectomorphisms -- 3. Almost complex structures and J-holomorphic curves -- 3.1. Sketch proof of the nonsqueezing theorem -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Regular Permutation Groups and Cayley Graphs C. E. Praeger -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Permutation groups and regularity -- 1.2. Cayley graphs -- 2. A recognition problem for Cayley graphs -- 3. Cayley graphs and B-groups -- 4. A fascinating density result -- 5. Exact factorisations of groups -- 6. Primitive Cayley graphs for various groups G -- 7. Types of finite primitive groups -- 8. Exact factorisations of finite classical groups -- References -- Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves through the Ages R. Sujatha -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Elliptic curves and number theory -- 3. Iwasawa theory -- 4. Iwasawa algebras -- 5. Main conjectures -- 6. Applications and examples -- References -- Part B Contributed Short Talks -- Tricritical Points and Liquid-Solid Critical Lines A. Aitta -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Landau theory -- 3. Experimental evidence for iron -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Elastic Waves in Rods of Rectangular Cross Section A. A. Bondarenko -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Formulation of the problem -- 3. Method of solution -- 4. Results and discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References
• 3.3. History and philosophy of mathematics -- 3.4. Gender meets Mathematics -- 3.5. The scientific community in mathematics -- 3.6. What is mathematics? -- References
• Natural Extensions for the Golden Mean K. Dajani &amp -- C. Kalle -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Expansions and fundamental intervals -- 3. Two rows of rectangles -- 4. Towering the orbits -- References -- An Equivariant Tietze Extension Theorem for Proper Actions of Locally Compact Groups A. Feragen -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Prerequisites -- 3. The equivariant Tietze extension theorem -- References -- On Uniform Tangential Approximation by Lacunary Power Series G. Harutyunyan -- Notation and Introduction -- 1. Uniform and tangential approximation by holomorphic functions -- 2. Lacunary approximation -- 2.1. Uniform approximation by lacunary polynomials -- 2.2. Auxiliary Proposition -- 2.3. The main result -- References -- Cyclic Division Algebras in Space-Time Coding: A Brief Overview C. Hollanti -- 1. Space-time coding: Idea and design criteria -- 2. Cyclic division algebras and orders -- 3. The discriminant bound -- References -- Part C Women in Mathematics -- And What Became of the Women? C. Series -- Introduction -- At Cambridge -- What did these three women do afterwards? -- Postscript -- Sources -- References -- Three Great Girton Mathematicians R. M. Williams -- Dame Mary Cartwright, F.R.S. -- Bertha Swirles, Lady Je reys -- Olga Taussky-Todd -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- What About the Women Now? R. M. Williams -- Introduction -- Women in DAMTP report -- Women and the Mathematical Tripos: Myth and Reality -- the Salter Report -- Indicators of Academic Performance -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Mathematics in Society (Taking into Account Gender- Aspects) - A One-Semester Course (BSc) C. Scharlach -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Studying math at German universities - the current situation -- 3. The one-semester course at HU Berlin -- 3.1. Mathematics as a profession -- 3.2. Interviews with mathematicians