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Venice-1 symposium on applied and industrial mathematics, 1989

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I: Invited Papers.- - C. Cercignani, Physical Problems and Rigorous Results in Kinetic Theory.- - A. Chorin, Statistical Mechanics of Vortex Filaments (abstract).- - Feng Kang, The Hamiltonian Way for Computing Hamiltonian Dynamics.- - C. W. Gear (with Fen-Lien Juang), The Speed of Waveform Methods for ODEs.- - J. B. Keller, Diffusively Coupled Dynamical Systems.- - P. D. Lax, Deterministic Turbulence (extended abstract).- - J. L. Lions, Exact Controllability for Distributed Systems. Some Trends and Some Problems.- - V. P. Maslov, Beginning of Weakly Anisotropic Turbulence.- - S. K. Mitter, Markov Random Fields, Stochastic Quantization and Image Analysis.- - H. Neunzert (with F. Gropengießer and J. Struckmeier),. Computational Methods for the Boltzmann equation.- - J. R. Ockendon, A Class of Moving Boundary Problems Arising in Industry.- - M. Primicerio, Systems with Non-Fading Memory Encountered in the Modellization of Industrial Problems.- - M. Pulvirenti, A Stochastic Particle System Modelling the Broadwell Equation.- -A. Quarteroni (with A. Valli), Theory and Application of Steklov-Poincare Operators for Boundary-Value Problems.- - S. Rionero (with B. Straughan), On the Problem of Natural Convection.- II: Selected Contributed Papers.- 1. Mathematical Modelling in Fluid Mechanics.- - J. A. Nohel, Non-Newtonian Phenomena in Shear Flow.- - O. Pironneau (with C. Bernardi, M. O. Bristeau and M. G. Vallet), Numerical Analysis for Compressible Viscous Isothermal Stationary Flows.- - E. G. Virga (with D. Roccato), Drops of Nematic Liquid Crystal Floating on a Fluid.- 2. Nonlinear waves.- - S. Venakides, The Korteweg-de Vries Equation with Small Dispersion: HigherOrder Lax-Levermore Theory.- - P. L. Christiansen, Solitons in Optical Fibres.- 3. Wave Propagation in Random Media.- - R. Burridge, Waves in Finely Layered Media.- - B. S. White (with Balan Nair), Stochastic Geometry and the Intensity of Random Waves.- - V. I. Klyatskin, Plane Waves in Layered Random Media. The Role of Boundary Conditions.- 4. Transport Phenomena.- - P. A. Markowich (with A. Arnold), Quantum Transport Models for Semiconductors.- - G. C. Pomraning, Particle Transport in Random Media.- 5. Inverse Problems in the Applied Sciences.- - G. Alessandrini, Determining Conductivity by Boundary Measurements, the Stability Issue.- - G. Caviglia (with A. Morro), Scattering Problems for Acoustic Waves.- - W.L. Dunn (with A. M. Yacout and F. O'Foghludha), The Use of Single-Scatter Models in Medical Radiation Applications.- 6. Mathematical Modelling of Industrial Problems.- - Li Tatsien (with Tan Yongji, Pen Yuejun and Li Hailong)Mathematical Methods for the SP Well-Logging.- - C.D. Hill (with P. Susskind and V. Giambalvo), Effective Computation of the Symmetric Lens.- - L. Brusa, Mathematical Modelling of Structural Industrial Problems: Methodologies and Algorithms.- Author Index.