Research Conference: Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems

University Of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN

Investigators

Abstract

0139236 Rosenthal The International Symposium on the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS) is a major international conference. It attracts typically 400 mathematicians and other scientists working in theoretical aspects of systems theory. The symposium is interdisciplinary and attracts mathematicians, engineers and researchers working in all aspects of systems theory. Mathematical methods which play a role in the areas mentioned above stem from a broad range of fields of pure and applied mathematics, including ordinary and partial differential equations, real and complex analysis, numerical analysis, probability theory and stochastic analysis, operator theory, linear and commutative algebra as well as algebraic and differential geometry. In August 2002 the MTNS symposium will be held on the campus of the University of Notre Dame. Travel support will be provided by this award for approximately twenty new researchers (graduate students and recent doctoral recipients) and 2-3 international researchers needing special assistance to attend this conference. The symposium program will include plenary lectures, special topic invited lectures, mini-symposia, mini- courses, special topic sessions and contributed papers. The symposium will cover serious mathematical issues as well as some important applied areas. Several broad application areas were selected: (1) Systems theoretic questions in biology, (2) Applications in the area of telecommunications, (3) Computational questions arising in control and systems theory and (4) Systems theoretic questions in the area of mathematical finance. In each of these important application areas 2-3 established researchers were asked to organize a "Mini-symposium". This is a sub-symposium which typically consists of a sequence of tutorial lectures as well as a sequence of invited sessions each consisting of 4 research papers. The organizers had these areas of research in mind at the time the plenary speakers and the special topics speaker were selected.