Editors: Ferruccio Colombini & Tatsuo Nishitani

Hyperbolic Problems and Related Topics

(Graduate Series in Analysis)
ISBN #: 1-57146-150-7
Year of Publication: 2003
Page: 444
Binding: Softcover

Description

On September 10 to 14, 2002, a Scientific Conference on "Hyperbolic Problems and Related Topics" was held at the" Palazzone" in Cortona under the auspices of Instituto Nazionale di AIta Matematica "Francesco Severi" of Roma.

Three courses were given: by Serge Alinhac on blowup at infinity for quasi-linear Wave equations, by Jean-Michel Bony on microlocal analysis applied to evolution equations, and by Luc Robbiano and Claude Zuily on analytic scattering wave front set and applications to Schrodinger equation.

Lectures in a variety of topics were also given. They include: the Cauchy problem for strictly or weakly hyperbolic operators and their applications; semilinear, quasilinear or fully nonlinear equations; the Navier-Stokes and Schrodinger equations. Other topics discussed were the Sine-Gordon Hierarchy, oscillatory integrals and unique continuation problems, local solvability for differential or pseudodifferential operators, lower bounds of pseudodifferential systems. The most frequently occurring theme was perhaps the use of microlocal analysis, which is now a cornerstone in the study of linear and also nonlinear equations.

Table of Contents

The Global Existence of Smooth Solutions to Quasilinear Wave Equations, AVery Short Course ? Serge Alinhac
Evolution Equations and Microlocal Analysis - Jean-Michel Bony
Necessary Conditions for the Well Posedness of the Cauchy Problem for Hyperbolic Systems ? Antonio Bove and Tatsuo Nishitani
An Example of Singular Dynamics for the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation on Bounded Domains - N. Burq, P. Gerard, and N. Tzvetkov
The Cauchy Problem for Some Nonstrictly Hyperbolic Equations with Nonregular Coefficients and its Applications ? Ferruccio Colombini and Kunihiko Kajitani
The Cauchy Problem for Semilinear Second Order Equations with Finite Degeneracy ? Ferruccio Colombini, Tatsuo Nishitani, and Giovanni Taglialatela
Solvability and Nonsolvability of Second-Order Evolution Equations - Ferruccio Colombini, Ludovico Pernazza, and Francois Treves
Navier-Stokes Equations with Variable Density - Raphael Danchin
Recent III - Posedness Results for the Wave Map System in Critical Spaces - Piero D'Ancona and Vladimir Georgiev
Some Results on the Cauchy Problem for Hyperbolic Operators with Non-regular Coefficients - Daniele Del Santo
The Question of Solvability - Nils Dencker
Singularities of Solutions of Schrodinger Equations for Perturbed Harmonic Oscillators - Shin-ichi Doi
Dispersive Estimates for Principally Normal Operators and Applications to Unique Continuation - Herbert Koch and Daniel Tataru
On the Small Data Global Existence and Scattering for Systems of Semilinear Wave Equations - Hideo Kubo
Well Posedness of 2 x 2 Systems with C Infinity-Coefficients - Lorenzo Mencherini and Sergio Spagnolo
Large Viscous Boundary Layers for Noncharacteristic Nonlinear Hyperbolic Problems - Guy Metivier and Kevin Zumbrun
Scalar Local Covariant Fields on a Family of Globally Hyperbolic Manifolds ? M.K. Venkatesha Murthy
On Lower Bounds of Pseudodifferential Systems - Alberto Parmeggiani
A Refined Diagonalization Procedure to Handle Fast Oscillations in Degenerate Hyperbolic Problems - Michael Reissig
Analytic Theory for the Quadratic Scattering, Wave Front Set and Application to the Schrodinger Equation - Luc Robbiano and Claude Zuily
On Some Stability Theorem of the Steady Flow of Compressible Viscous Fluid with Respect to the Initial Disturbance - Yoshihiro Shibata
Initial Boundary Value Problem for the Equations of Ideal Magnetohydrodynamics in a Half Space - Masahiro Takayama
Differential Algebra and Completely Integrable Systems - Francois Treves
Diagonalizable Complex Systems, Reduced Dimension and Hermitian Systems I - Jean Vaillant
The Cauchy Problem for Hyperbolic Operators Dominated by Time Functions - Seiichiro Wakabayashi

Editor: S. T. Yau

Surveys in Differential Geometry VIII:
Papers in Honor of Calabi, Lawson, Siu and Uhlenbeck

ISBN: 1-57146-114-0
Year Published: Nov 2003
Page: 397 pp
Binding: Hardcover

The annual Surveys in Differential Geometry volume is received with anticipation each year as it summarizes many of the recent discoveries in the field. This year痴 volume is dedicated to Professors Calabi, Lawson, Siu, and Uhlenbeck. It contains important contributions by their students and colleagues and reflects the important work in the field of Geometry and Topology done by these great mathematicians. This volume includes the recent inspiring works of Atiyah, Coldings, Donaldson, Margulis and Wolpert.

Table of Contents

Projective planes, Severi varieties and spheres - Michael Atiyah and Jurgen Berndt
Degeneration of Einstein metrics and metrics with special holonomy ・ Jeff Cheeger
The min-max construction of minimal surfaces ・Tobias H. Colding and Camillo De Lellis
Universal volume bounds in Riemannian manifolds ・Christopher B. Croke and Mikhail Katz
A Kawamata-Viehweg vanishing theorem on compact Kahler manifolds ・ Jean Pierre Demailly and Thomas Peternell
Moment maps in differential geometry ・S. K. Donaldson
Local rigidity for cocycles ・David Fisher and G. A. Margulis
Einstein Metrics, Four Manifolds, and Differential Topology ・Claude LeBrun
Topological quantum field theory for Calabi-Yau threefolds and G2-manifold ・Naichung Conan Leung
Geometric results in classical minimal surface theory ・William H. Meeks
On global existence of wave maps with critical regularity ・Andrea Nahmod
Discreteness of minimal models of Kodaira dimension zero and subvarieties of moduli stacks ・EckartViehweg and Kang Zuo
Geometry of the Weil-Petersson completion of Teichmuller space ・Scott A. Wolpert

Shein-Chung Chow, Jen-Pei Liu

Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials: Concepts and Methodologies, 2nd Edition

ISBN: 0-471-24985-8
Hardcover
729 pages
November 2003

Praise for the First Edition of Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials
"An excellent book, providing a discussion of the clinical trial process from designing the study through analyzing the data, and to regulatory requirement . . . could easily be used as a classroom text to understand the process in the new drug development area."
?Statistical Methods in Medicine

A complete and balanced presentation now revised, updated, and expanded

As the field of research possibilities expands, the need for a working understanding of how to carry out clinical trials only increases. New developments in the theory and practice of clinical research include a growing body of literature on the subject, new technologies and methodologies, and new guidelines from the International Conference on Harmonization (ICH).

Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials, Second Edition provides both a comprehensive, unified presentation of principles and methodologies for various clinical trials, and a well-balanced summary of current regulatory requirements. This unique resource bridges the gap between clinical and statistical disciplines, covering both fields in a lucid and accessible manner. Thoroughly updated from its first edition, the Second Edition of Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials features new topics such as:

Clinical trials and regulations, especially those of the ICH
Clinical significance, reproducibility, and generalizability
Goals of clinical trials and target population
New study designs and trial types
Sample size determination on equivalence and noninferiority trials, as well as comparing variabilities
Also, three entirely new chapters cover:

Designs for cancer clinical trials
Preparation and implementation of a clinical protocol
Data management of a clinical trial
Written with the practitioner in mind, the presentation assumes only a minimal mathematical and statistical background for its reader. Instead, the writing emphasizes real-life examples and illustrations from clinical case studies, as well as numerous references?280 of them new to the Second Edition?to the literature. Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials, Second Edition will benefit academic, pharmaceutical, medical, and regulatory scientists/researchers, statisticians, and graduate-level students in these areas by serving as a useful, thorough reference source for clinical research.

D. N. Prabhakar Murthy, Min Xie, Renyan Jiang

Weibull Models

ISBN: 0-471-36092-9
Hardcover
408 pages
October 2003

A comprehensive perspective on Weibull models
The literature on Weibull models is vast, disjointed, and scattered across many different journals. Weibull Models is a comprehensive guide that integrates all the different facets of Weibull models in a single volume.

This book will be of great help to practitioners in reliability and other disciplines in the context of modeling data sets using Weibull models. For researchers interested in these modeling techniques, exercises at the end of each chapter define potential topics for future research.

Organized into seven distinct parts, Weibull Models:

Covers model analysis, parameter estimation, model validation, and application
Serves as both a handbook and a research monograph. As a handbook, it classifies the different models and presents their properties. As a research monograph, it unifies the literature and presents the results in an integrated manner
Intertwines theory and application
Focuses on model identification prior to model parameter estimation
Discusses the usefulness of the Weibull Probability plot (WPP) in the model selection to model a given data set
Highlights the use of Weibull models in reliability theory
Filled with in-depth analysis, Weibull Models pulls together the most relevant information on this topic to give everyone from reliability engineers to applied statisticians involved with reliability and survival analysis a clear look at what Weibull models can offer.

Vic Barnett

Environmental Statistics

ISBN: 0-471-48971-9
Hardcover
316 pages
January 2004

In modern society, we are ever more aware of the environmental issues we face, whether these relate to global warming, depletion of rivers and oceans, despoliation of forests, pollution of land, poor air quality, environmental health issues, etc. At the most fundamental level it is necessary to monitor what is happening in the environment ? collecting data to describe the changing scene. More importantly, it is crucial to formally describe the environment with sound and validated models, and to analyse and interpret the data we obtain in order to take action.
Environmental Statistics provides a broad overview of the statistical methodology used in the study of the environment, written in an accessible style by a leading authority on the subject. It serves as both a textbook for students of environmental statistics, as well as a comprehensive source of reference for anyone working in statistical investigation of environmental issues.

Provides broad coverage of the methodology used in the statistical investigation of environmental issues.
Covers a wide range of key topics, including sampling, methods for extreme data, outliers and robustness, relationship models and methods, time series, spatial analysis, and environmental standards.
Includes many detailed practical and worked examples that illustrate the applications of statistical methods in environmental issues.
Authored by a leading authority on environmental statistics.