M. Fukushima – författare

The theory of Dirichlet forms has witnessed recently somevery important developments both in theoretical foundationsand in applications (stochasticprocesses, quantum fieldtheory, composite materials,...). It was therefore felttimely to have on this subject a CIME school, in whichleading experts in the field would present both the basicfoundations of the theory and some of the recentapplications. The six courses covered the basic theory andapplications to:- Stochastic processes and potential theory (M. Fukushimaand M. Roeckner)- Regularity problems for solutions to elliptic equations ingeneral domains (E. Fabes and C. Kenig)- Hypercontractivity of semigroups, logarithmic Sobolevinequalities and relation to statistical mechanics (L. Grossand D. Stroock).The School had a constant and active participation of youngresearchers, both from Italy and abroad.

The theory of Dirichlet forms has witnessed recently somevery important developments both in theoretical foundationsand in applications (stochasticprocesses, quantum fieldtheory, composite materials,...). It was therefore felttimely to have on this subject a CIME school, in whichleading experts in the field would present both the basicfoundations of the theory and some of the recentapplications. The six courses covered the basic theory andapplications to:- Stochastic processes and potential theory (M. Fukushimaand M. Roeckner)- Regularity problems for solutions to elliptic equations ingeneral domains (E. Fabes and C. Kenig)- Hypercontractivity of semigroups, logarithmic Sobolevinequalities and relation to statistical mechanics (L. Grossand D. Stroock).The School had a constant and active participation of youngresearchers, both from Italy and abroad.

This volume contains 44 papers presented at the Sixth Symposium in Kiev. They represent the most recent research activities in the former Soviet Union and in Japan on diverse topics of the traditionally strong fields in both countries of probability theory and mathematical statistics.

The volume contains 46 papers presented at the Seventh Symposium in Tokyo. They represent the most recent research activity in Japan, Russia, Ukraina, Lithuania, Georgia and some other countries on diverse topics of the traditionally strong fields in these countries — probability theory and mathematical statistics.