European Women in Mathematics
Subtitle: proceedings of the tenth general meeting, Malta, 24-30 August 2001
By: editors, Emilia Mezzetti, Sylvie Paycha.
Contributors: Mezzetti, Emilia.; Paycha, Sylvie.
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2001
Place of publication: River Edge, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 409
Subjects: Women in mathematics -- Congresses.; Mathematics -- Congresses.; Women in science -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Proceedings of the tenth general meeting, European Women in Mathematics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. About the organization European Women in Mathematics; title: Presentation of EWM --; title: History of the EWM office: a brief history of the EWM office in Helsinki, 1991-2001 -- Marjatta Näätänen; title: History of the EWM meetings: a brief account of the meetings since the 5th meeting in Luminy -- Emilia Mezzetti, -- Sylvie Paycha; title: Report on EWM activites: a report on activities since the 9th meeting in Loccum -- Laura Fainsilber; title: About EWM proceedings: the mathematical part of EWM meetings -- Capi Corrales Rodriganez, -- Laura Tedeschini Lalli -- 2. Photo gallery -- 3. Contributions -- 3. Mathematics applied to finance; title: Introduction ;; title: Derivatives: a scientific revolution of the seventies -- Francine Diener; title: Why heavy tails in financial series? Estimations and tests -- Monique Pontier; title: Portfolio optimization in finance -- Nadine Bellamy; title: Report on discussion on The ethics of using mathematics in finance -- Francine Diener -- 3.2 Geometry -- 3.2.1 Cohomology theories: a useful tool in geometry; title: Introduction -- Emilia Mezzetti, -- Sylvie Paycha; title: Analytical and geometrical features of de Rham and Dolbeault's cohomologies -- Chiara de Fabritiis; title: McKay correspondence - a bridge from algebra to geometry -- Yukari Ito; title: Total positivity, flag varieties and quantum cohomology -- Konstanze Rietsch -- 3.2.2 The uses of geometry; title: Introduction -- Tsou Sheung Tsun; title: Calabi-Yau manifolds and mirror symmetry -- Xenia de la Ossa; title: Why is there hyperbolic geometry in dynamics? -- Caroline Series; title: Tessellations and related modular groups -- Asia Ivić Weiss -- 3.3 EMS lectures on convex polytopes; title: Introduction to the EMS lectures -- Michele Vergne / -- Bodil Branner; title: Residue formulae for Verlinde sums, and for number of integral points in convex rational polytopes -- Michèle Bergne -- 3.4 Poster session; title: Report -- Tatiana Ivanova -- 3.5 Mathematics outside the classroom: cultural differences; title: Introduction -- Laura Fainsilber, Marie-Françoise Roy, -- Rosa Maria Spitaleri; title: Raising public awareness in mathematics: the WMY2000 experience -- Mireille Chaleyat-Maurel; title: Popularization of mathematics: local and global perspectives -- Franka Miriam Brückler -- 3.6 Socio-political dimension of gender inequality; title: Introduction -- Laura Fainsilber, Marie-Françoise Roy, -- Rosa Maria Spitaleri; title: Women and science in Europe and in France -- Claudine Hermann; title: Focus on Italian activities in women and science -- Rosa Maria Spitaleri; title: Mathematicians' careers - analysis of a questionnaire -- Ina Kersten, -- Emilia Mezzetti -- Short communications; title: Hankel operators on generalized Bergman-Hardy spaces -- Bettina Rehberg; title: M[alpha]th-kit: a multimedia project for learning and teaching mathematics -- Sabine Schiller, -- Luise Unger.