Man-Wah Wong - Böcker

The 3rd International ISAAC Congress took place from August 20 to 25, 2001 in Berlin, Germany, supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the city of Berlin through Investitionsbank Berlin and the Freie Universitiit Berlin. 10 ISAAC Awards were presented to young researchers in analysis its applications and computation from all over the world on the basis of financial support from Siemens, Daimler Crysler, Motorola and the Berlin Mathematical Society and book gifts from Birkhauser Verlag, Elsevier, Kluwer Academic Publisher, Springer Verlag and World Scientific. The ISAAC is grateful to all these institutions, firms and publishers for their support. Due to the support from DFG and from Investitions- bank Berlin many of the 362 registrated participants could be financially supported. Unfortunately the financial supports were granted too late to reach more people from former SU as the procedere for visa is still more than cumbersome and embassies are not at all flexible. Hence, a big part of the financial support could not be used and had to be returned. The 10 plenary lectures were 1. Antoniou, 1. Prigogine (Intern. Solvay Inst. Phys. Chem.,Brussels): Irreversibility and the probabilistic description of unstable evolutions beyond the Hilbert space framework (read by 1. Antoniou), N.S. Bakhvalov, M.E. Eglit (Math. Mech. Dept., Lomonosov State Univ.

The 3rd International ISAAC Congress took place from August 20 to 25, 2001 in Berlin, Germany, supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the city of Berlin through Investitionsbank Berlin and the Freie Universitiit Berlin. 10 ISAAC Awards were presented to young researchers in analysis its applications and computation from all over the world on the basis of financial support from Siemens, Daimler Crysler, Motorola and the Berlin Mathematical Society and book gifts from Birkhauser Verlag, Elsevier, Kluwer Academic Publisher, Springer Verlag and World Scientific. The ISAAC is grateful to all these institutions, firms and publishers for their support. Due to the support from DFG and from Investitions- bank Berlin many of the 362 registrated participants could be financially supported. Unfortunately the financial supports were granted too late to reach more people from former SU as the procedere for visa is still more than cumbersome and embassies are not at all flexible. Hence, a big part of the financial support could not be used and had to be returned. The 10 plenary lectures were 1. Antoniou, 1. Prigogine (Intern. Solvay Inst. Phys. Chem.,Brussels): Irreversibility and the probabilistic description of unstable evolutions beyond the Hilbert space framework (read by 1. Antoniou), N.S. Bakhvalov, M.E. Eglit (Math. Mech. Dept., Lomonosov State Univ.

The Fourth Congress of the International Society for Analysis, its Applications and Computation (ISAAC) was held at York University from August 11, 2003 to August 16, 2003. It was supported by the Academic Initiative Fund of the Faculty of Arts, NSERC grants from some members of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the Office of the Vice-President Academic of York University. In spite of two SARS outbreaks in Toronto in 2003, the ISAAC Congress was held as scheduled and was well attended by mathematicians from all over the world. There were nine plenary lectures and seventeen special sessions representing most major themes in analysis. Among these were two plenary lectures and a special session on pseudo-differential operators organized by Ryuichi Ashino of Osaka Kyoiku University, Paolo Boggiatto of Universite di Torino and M. W. Wong of York University. In the summer of 2003, M. W. Wong had the idea of putting together the lectures on pseudo-differential operators in a volume to be published in a series that advocates operator theory and its applications. In early August of 2003, when Israel Gohberg of Tel Aviv University was consulted about the possibility of publishing a volume entitled "Advances in Pseudo-Differential Operators" in his series "Operator Theory: Advances and Applications", he replied immediately endorsing the proposal enthusiastically.

The Fourth Congress of the International Society for Analysis, its Applications and Computation (ISAAC) was held at York University from August 11, 2003 to August 16, 2003. It was supported by the Academic Initiative Fund of the Faculty of Arts, NSERC grants from some members of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the Office of the Vice-President Academic of York University. In spite of two SARS outbreaks in Toronto in 2003, the ISAAC Congress was held as scheduled and was well attended by mathematicians from all over the world. There were nine plenary lectures and seventeen special sessions representing most major themes in analysis. Among these were two plenary lectures and a special session on pseudo-differential operators organized by Ryuichi Ashino of Osaka Kyoiku University, Paolo Boggiatto of Universite di Torino and M. W. Wong of York University. In the summer of 2003, M. W. Wong had the idea of putting together the lectures on pseudo-differential operators in a volume to be published in a series that advocates operator theory and its applications. In early August of 2003, when Israel Gohberg of Tel Aviv University was consulted about the possibility of publishing a volume entitled "Advances in Pseudo-Differential Operators" in his series "Operator Theory: Advances and Applications", he replied immediately endorsing the proposal enthusiastically.

This book gives a straightforward account of a class of pseudo-differential operators. It is ideal for courses in functional analysis, Fourier analysis and partial differential equations. Exercises are also included in the text.

In this new edition of An Introduction to Pseudo-Differential Operators, the style and scope of the original book are retained. A chapter on the interchange of order of differentiation and integration is added at the beginning to make the book more self-contained, and a chapter on weak solutions of pseudo-differential equations is added at the end to enhance the value of the book as a work on partial differential equations. Several chapters are provided with additional exercises. The bibliography is slightly expanded and an index is added.

The biannual ISAAC congresses provide information about recent progress in the whole area of analysis including applications and computation. This book constitutes the proceedings of the third meeting.

This authoritative volume comprises the plenary lectures and articles by many of the field's leading researchers who were brought together for the fourth time at the congress of the International Society for Analysis, its Applications and Computation (ISAAC).A wide spectrum of topics in modern analysis is covered by the fully refereed contributions, such as complex analysis, nonlinear analysis, inverse problems, wavelets, signals and images. In particular, important areas — not given special emphasis in previous meetings — include special functions and orthogonal polynomials, harmonic analysis, and partial differential equations.

This book is ideal for a one-semester course for advanced undergraduate students and first-year graduate students in mathematics. It is a straightforward and coherent account of a body of knowledge in complex analysis, from complex numbers to Cauchy's integral theorems and formulas to more advanced topics such as automorphism groups, the Schwarz problem in partial differential equations, and boundary behavior of harmonic functions.The book covers a wide range of topics, from the most basic complex numbers to those that underpin current research on some aspects of analysis and partial differential equations. The novelty of this book lies in its choice of topics, genesis of presentation, and lucidity of exposition.