European Women In Mathematics

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.

This volume offers a unique collection of outstanding contributions from renowned women mathematicians who met in Cambridge for a conference under the auspices of European Women in Mathematics (EWM). These contributions serve as excellent surveys of their subject areas, including symplectic topology, combinatorics and number theory. The volume moreover sheds light on prominent women mathematicians who worked in Cambridge in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by providing an insightful historical introduction at the beginning of the volume. The volume concludes with short contributions from women mathematicians from across Europe working in various areas of mathematics ranging from group theory to magnetic fields.

Deformation quantisation and connections / S. Gutt -- What is symplectic geometry? / D. McDuff -- Regular permutation groups and Cayley graphs / C.E. Praeger -- Arithmetic of elliptic curves through the ages / R. Sujatha -- Tricritical points and liquid-solid critical lines / A. Aitta -- Elastic waves in rods of rectangular cross section / A.A. Bondarenko -- Natural extensions for the golden mean / K. Dajani & C. Kalle -- An equivariant tietze extension theorem for proper actions of locally compact groups / A. Feragen -- On uniform tangential approximation by lacunary power series / G. Harutyunyan -- Cyclic division algebras in apace-time coding : a brief overview / C. Hollanti -- And what became of the women? / C. Series -- Three great Girton mathematicians / R.M. Williams -- What about the women now? / R.M. Williams -- Mathematics in society (taking into account gender-aspects) - a one-semester course (BSc) / C. Scharlach

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. Contents:Mathematics Applied to Finance:Derivatives: A Scientific Revolution of the Seventies (F Diener)Why Heavy Tails in Financial Series? Estimations and Tests (M Pontier)Portfolio Optimization in Finance (N Bellamy)Geometry:Analytical and Geometrical Features of de Rham and Dolbeault's Cohomologies (C de Fabritiis)The McKay Correspondence — A Bridge from Algebra to Geometry (Y Ito)Total Positivity, Flag Varieties and Quantum Cohomology (K Rietsch)Calabi–Yau Manifolds and Mirror Symmetry (X de la Ossa)Why is There Hyperbolic Geometry in Dynamics? (C Series)Tessellations and Related Modular Groups (A I Weiss)EMS Lectures on Convex Polytopes:Residue Formulae for Verlinde Sums, and for Number of Integral Points in Convex Rational Polytopes (M Vergne)Mathematics Outside the Classroom: Cultural Differences:Raising Public Awareness in Mathematics: The WMY2000 Experience (M Chaleyat-Maurel)Popularization of Mathematics: Local and Global Perspectives (F M Brückler)Socio-Political Dimension of Gender Inequality:Women and Science in Europe and in France (C Hermann)Focus on Italian Activities in Women and Science (R M Spitaleri)Mathematicians' Careers — Analysis of a Questionnaire (I Kersten & E Mezzetti)Short Communications:Hankel Operators on Generalized Bergman–Hardy Spaces (B Rehberg)Mαth-Kit: A Multimedia Project for Learning and Teaching Mathematics (S Schiller & L Unger)and other papers Readership: Researchers in mathematical finance, geometry and general mathematics. Keywords:Mathematical Finance;Geometry;Cohomology

Covering topics in graph theory, L-functions, p-adic geometry, Galois representations, elliptic fibrations, genus 3 curves and bad reduction, harmonic analysis, symplectic groups and mould combinatorics, this volume presents a collection of papers covering a wide swath of number theory emerging from the third iteration of the international Women in Numbers conference, “Women in Numbers - Europe” (WINE), held on October 14–18, 2013 at the CIRM-Luminy mathematical conference center in France. While containing contributions covering a wide range of cutting-edge topics in number theory, the volume emphasizes those concrete approaches that make it possible for graduate students and postdocs to begin work immediately on research problems even in highly complex subjects.