EUROPEAN WOMEN IN MATHEMATICS

EUROPEAN WOMEN IN MATHEMATICS
Proceedings of the Tenth General Meeting

Malta, 24 - 30 August 2001

CONTENTS


FRONT MATTER	i
1. About the Organization European Women in Mathematics
PRESENTATION OF EWM	5
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE EWM OFFICE IN HELSINKI, 1991–2001 MARJATTA NÄÄTÄNEN	7
HISTORY OF EWM MEETINGS - A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE MEETINGS SINCE THE 5TH MEETING IN LUMINY	9
A REPORT ON ACTIVITIES SINCE THE 9TH MEETING IN LOCCUM	13
THE MATHEMATICAL PART OF EWM MEETINGS CAPI CORRALES RODRIGANEZ and LAURA TEDESCHINI LALLI	17
2. Photo Gallery
PHOTO GALLERY	23
3. Contributions — 3.1 Mathematics applied to finance
INTRODUCTION: MATHEMATICS APPLIED TO FINANCE	39
DERIVATIVES: A SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION OF THE SEVENTIES FRANCINE DIENER	41
WHY HEAVY TAILS IN FINANCIAL SERIES? ESTIMATIONS AND TESTS MONIQUE PONTIER	53
PORTFOLIO OPTIMIZATION IN FINANCE NADINE BELLAMY	71
THE ETHICS OF USING MATHEMATICS IN FINANCE REPORT ON DISCUSSION	93
3. Contributions — 3.2 Geometry
INTRODUCTION ON COHOMOLOGY THEORIES: A USEFUL TOOL IN GEOMETRY	99
ANALYTICAL AND GEOMETRICAL FEATURES OF DE RHAM AND DOLBEAULT'S COHOMOLOGIES CHIARA DE FABRITIIS	101
THE MCKAY CORRESPONDENCE – A BRIDGE FROM ALGEBRA TO GEOMETRY YUKARI ITO	127
TOTAL POSITIVITY, FLAG VARIETIES AND QUANTUM COHOMOLOGY KONSTANZE RIETSCH	149
INTRODUCTION: THE USES OF GEOMETRY	169
CALABI-YAU MANIFOLDS AND MIRROR SYMMETRY XENIA DE LA OSSA	171
WHY IS THERE HYPERBOLIC GEOMETRY IN DYNAMICS? CAROLINE SERIES	191
TESSELLATIONS AND RELATED MODULAR GROUPS ASIA IVIĆ WEISS	209
3. Contributions — 3.3 EMS lectures on convex polytopes
INTRODUCTION TO THE EMS LECTURES BY MICHÈLE VERGNE	223
RESIDUE FORMULAE FOR VERLINDE SUMS, AND FOR NUMBER OF INTEGRAL POINTS IN CONVEX RATIONAL POLYTOPES MICHÈLE VERGNE	225
LECTURE 1 RESIDUE FORMULAE FOR BERNOULLI POLYNOMIALS AND VERLINDE SUMS MICHÈLE VERGNE	227
LECTURE 2 RESIDUE FORMULAE FOR VOLUMES AND NUMBER OF INTEGRAL POINTS IN CONVEX RATIONAL POLYTOPES MICHÈLE VERGNE	245
3. Contributions — 3.4 Poster session
REPORT TATIANA IVANOVA	289
ABSTRACTS	293
3. Contributions — 3.5 Mathematics outside the classroom: cultural differences
INTRODUCTION ON MATHEMATICS OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM: CULTURAL DIFFERENCES	321
RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS IN MATHEMATICS: THE WMY2000 EXPERIENCE MIREILLE CHALEYAT-MAUREL	323
POPULARIZATION OF MATHEMATICS: LOCAL AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES FRANKA MIRIAM BRÜCKLER	335
3. Contributions — 3.6 Socio-political dimension of gender inequality
INTRODUCTION TO THE SESSSION ON THE SOCIO-POLITICAL DIMENSION OF GENDER INEQUALITY	349
WOMEN AND SCIENCE, IN EUROPE AND IN FRANCE CLAUDINE HERMANN	351
FOCUS ON ITALIAN ACTIVITIES IN WOMEN AND SCIENCE ROSA MARIA SPITALERI	359
MATHEMATICIAN'S CAREERS - ANALYSIS OF A QUESTIONNAIRE INA KERSTEN and EMILIA MEZZETTI	367
Short communications
HANKEL OPERATORS ON GENERALIZED BERGMAN-HARDY SPACES BETTINA REHBERG	375
MαTH-KIT: A MULTIMEDIA PROJECT FOR LEARNING AND TEACHING MATHEMATICS SABINE SCHILLER and LUISE UNGER	383
BACK MATTER	389
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