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Of the American Mathematical Society ISSN 0002-9920 Notices of the American Mathematical Society ISSN 0002-9920 of the American Mathematical Society January 2009 Volume 56, Number 1 Mathematical Models in Science and Engineering page 10 Is the Sky Still Falling? page 20 Volume 55, Number 1, Pages 1–200, January 2009 Urbana Meeting page 92 Raleigh Meeting page 95 Mains’l and spinnaker (see page 88) Trim: 8.25" x 10.75" 200 pages on 40 lb Cougar Opaque • Spine: 5/16" • Print Cover on 9pt Carolina ,!4%8 ,!4%8 ,!4%8 New and Forthcoming Integration and Journal Special Issue Elliptic Equations: Modern Analysis Transformation Groups An Introductory Course John J. Benedetto; Wojciech Czaja, both Dedicated to Bertram Kostant on Michel Chipot, University of Zürich, University of Maryland, College Park, USA the Occasion of his 80th Birthday Switzerland This textbook begins with the fundamen- The aim of this book is to introduce the tals of classical real variables and leads to Contributors: reader to elliptic partial differential equations Lebesgue’s defi nition of the integral, the W. Baldoni, M. Brion, J. B. Carrell, by avoiding technicalities and refi nements. theory of integration and the structure of C. De Concini, P. Etingof, V. Ginzburg, Apart from the basic theory of equations in measures in a measure theoretical format. V. Guillemin, T. S. Holm, R. Howe, divergence form, it includes topics such as The core chapters are followed by chapters A. Joseph, R. Joshua, V. G. Kac, K. Kaveh, singular perturbation problems, homogeni- of a topical nature, which illuminate the D. Kazhdan, A. Knutson, Y. Kosmann- zation, computations, asymptotic behaviour authors’ intellectual vision of modern real Schwarzbach, S. Kumar, C. Laurent- of problems in cylinders, elliptic systems, analysis. These topics include weak conver- Gengoux, S. Loktev, G. Lusztig, nonlinear problems, regularity theory, gence, the Riesz representation theorem, A. Oblomkov, I. Penkov, V. L. Popov, Navier-Stokes system, p-Laplace equation. the Lebesgue differential theorem, and self- C. Procesi, K. Rietsch, L. Rybnikov, A minimal portion on Sobolev spaces is similar sets and fractals. Historical remarks, R. Sjamaar, E.-C. Tan, M. Vergne, presented, while work or integration on illuminating problems and examples, and M. Wakimoto, Z. Wang, A. Weinstein, the boundary has been carefully avoided. appendices on functional analysis and Fou- J. F. Willenbring, L. Williams, S.-W. Yang, Numerous results presented are original and rier analysis provide insight into the theory A. Zelevinsky, G. 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