Book Titles Current Developments in Mathematics, 2002

Hardcover		Current Developments in Mathematics, 2002
		ISBN: 1-57146-102-7 Year Published: 2003 Pages: 289 pages Binding: Hardcover Price: $65.00 --> Sale: $19.00

Description: The proceedings of the joint seminar by M.I.T. and Harvard on the current developments in mathematics for the year 2002. This year, the seminar was dedicated to Professor Wilfried Schmid and Professor George Lusztig. The 2002 speakers included Albert Bressan, Mark Haiman, Richard Hain, Stephen Kudla, Yair Minsky, John Morgan, Leslie Saper, Kari Vilonen, and David Vogan. The organizing committee for the seminar consisted of distinguished mathematicians from both institutions: B. Mazur, W. Schmid, and S.T. Yau from Harvard, and D. Jerison, T. Mrowka, and R. Stanley from MIT. Contents: One dimensional hyperbolic systems of conservation laws A. Bressan Combinatorics, symmetric functions and Hilbert schemes M. Haiman Periods of limit mixed Hodge structures R. Hain Modular forms and arithmetic geometry S. S. Kudla End invariants and the classification of hyperbolic 3-manifolds Y. N. Minsky On the cohomology of locally symmetric spaces and of their compactifications L. Saper Editors: Barry Mazur, Harvard Wilfried Schmid, Harvard S.T. Yau, Harvard        David Jerison, M.I.T. T. Mrowka, M.I.T. R. Stanley, M.I.T. Related Books: Current Developments in Mathematics Series, 1995-2005 To Order: Book Orders Book Sales - Great discounts on other popular titles!