Title	European Congress of Mathematics [electronic resource] : Barcelona, July 10-14, 2000 Volume II / edited by Carles Casacuberta, Rosa Maria Mirรณ-Roig, Joan Verdera, Sebastiร  Xambรณ-Descamps
Imprint	Basel : Birkhรคuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhรคuser, 2001
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8266-8
Descript	XII, 641 p. online resource

This is the second volume of the proceedings of the third European Congress of Mathematics. Volume I presents the speeches delivered at the Congress, the list of lectures, and short summaries of the achievements of the prize winners as well as papers by plenary and parallel speakers. The second volume collects articles by prize winners and speakers of the mini-symposia. This two-volume set thus gives an overview of the state of the art in many fields of mathematics and is therefore of interest to every professional mathematician

Table of Contents of Volume II -- Articles by Prize Winners -- Classification Results on Valuations on Convex Sets -- Towards a Microscopic Theory of Phase Coexistence -- Constructing Compact 8-Manifolds with Holonomy Spin(7) from Calabi-Yau Orbifolds -- Banach KK-Theory and the Baum-Connes Conjecture -- An Introduction to Non-Commutative Mori Theory -- Geometric Methods in Complex Analysis -- Vanishing Cycles and Mutation -- Critical Exponents, Conformal Invariance and Planar Brownian Motion -- Mini-Symposium on Computer Algebra -- Computer Algebra Algorithms for Linear Ordinary Differential and Difference Equations -- Some Introductory Remarks on Computer Algebra -- A Study of Iteration Formulas for Root Finding, Where Mathematics, Computer Algebra and Software Engineering Meet -- Industrial Applications of Computer Algebra: Climbing Up a Mountain, Going Down a Hill -- Applications of Computer Algebra to Algebraic Geometry, Singularity Theory and Symbolic-Numerical Solving -- Mini-Symposium on Curves over Finite Fields and Codes -- Explicit Towers of Drinfeld Modular Curves -- Curves over Finite Fields Attaining the Hasse-Weil Upper Bound -- Asymptotically Good Towers of Global Fields -- Explicit Constructions of Towers of Function Fields with Many Rational Places -- Curves over Finite Fields and Codes -- Authentication Codes and Algebraic Curves -- Mini-Symposium on Free Boundary Problems -- Some Aspects of Mean Curvature Flow in Presence of Nonsmooth Anisotropies -- A Phase-Field Model for Diffusion-Induced Grain Boundary Motion -- Evolution of a Closed Interface between Two Liquids of Different Types -- Applications of a Local Energy Method to Systems of PDEโ{128}{153}s Involving Free Boundaries -- Phase Boundaries in Alloys with Elastic Misfit -- Some Aspects of the Thin Film Equation -- A Brief Overview on the Obstacle Problem -- The Impact of Monotonicity Formulas in Regularity of Free Boundaries -- A Free Boundary Problem: Contributions from Modern Analysis -- Mini-Symposium on Mathematical Finance- Theory and Practice -- Risk Sensitive Control with Applications to Fixed Income Portfolio Management -- Wavelet Based PDE Valuation of Derivatives -- Some Analytic Facts on the Generalized Hyperbolic Model -- Functionals of Brownian Motion in Path-Dependent Option Valuation -- Optimal Portfolios under a Value at Risk Constraint -- Mini-Symposium on Quantum Chaology -- Trace Formulas and Spectral Statistics of Diffractive Systems -- Semiclassical Results in the Linear Response Theory -- The Berry- Tabor Conjecture -- On Quantum Unique Ergodicity for Linear Maps of the Torus -- Mini-Symposium on Quantum Computing -- Bound Information: The Classical Analog to Bound Quantum Entanglement -- Mini-Symposium on String Theory and M-Theory -- D-Branes on Calabi-Yau Manifolds -- Knot Invariants and Chern-Simons Theory -- Topological Quantum Field Theory and Four-Manifolds -- D-Brane Conformal Field Theory and Bundles of Conformal Blocks -- From Quiver Diagrams to Particle Physics -- Mini-Symposium on Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Hamiltonian Dynamics -- From Symplectic Packing to Algebraic Geometry and Back -- New Invariants of Legendrian Knots -- Contact Topology in Dimension Greater than Three -- The Hamiltonian Seifert Conjecture: Examples and Open Problems -- The Fine Geometry of the Cantor Families of Invariant Tori in Hamiltonian Systems -- Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Hamiltonian Dynamics -- Simple Coisotropic Projections and Caustics -- Mini-Symposium on Wavelet Applications in Signal Processing -- Reassigned Scalograms and Singularities -- The Impact of Wavelet Coefficient Correlations on Fractionally Differenced Process Estimation -- Wavelet-Based Modelling of Persistent Periodicities -- Network Traffic Modeling Using a Multifractal Wavelet Model -- Denoising Via Block Wiener Filtering in Wavelet Domain -- Wavelet Analysis of Discrete Time Series