This book contains the contributions by the participants in the nine of a series of workshops. Throughout the series of workshops, the contributors are consistently aiming at higher achievements of studies of the current topics in complex analysis, differential geometry and mathematical physics and further in any intermediate areas, with expectation of discovery of new research directions. Concerning the present one, it is worthwhile to mention that, in addition to the new developments of the traditional trends, many attractive and pioneering works were presented and their results were contributed to the present volume. The contents of this volume therefore will provide not only significant and useful information for researchers in complex analysis, differential geometry and mathematical physics (including their related areas), but also interesting mathematics for non-specialists and a broad audience. The present volume contains new developments and trends in the studies on constructions of holomorphic Cliffordian functions; the swelling constructions of minimal surfaces with higher genus in flat tori; the spectral properties of soliton equations on symmetric spaces; new types of shallow water waves described by Camassa-Holm type equations, the properties of pseudo-hermitian boson and fermion coherent states; fractals and chaos on orthorhombic lattices, and even an ambitious proposal of a graph model for Kaehler manifolds with Kaehler magnetic fields.

A discrete model for Kähler magnetic fields on a complex hyperbolic space / T. Adachi -- Integrability condition on the boundary parameters of the asymmetric exclusion process and matrix product ansatz / B. Aneva -- Remarks on the double-complex Laplacian / L. Apostolova -- Generalizations of conjugate connections / O. Calin, H. Matsuzoe, J. Zhang -- Asymptotics of generalized value distribution for Herglotz functions / Y. T. Christodoulides -- Cyclic hyper-scalar systems / S. Dimiev, M. S. Marinov, Z. Zhelev -- Plane curves associated with integrable dynamical systems of the Frenet-Serret type / P. A. Djondjorov, V. M. Vassilev, I. M. Mladenov -- Relativistic strain and electromagnetic photon-like objects / S. Donev, M. Tashkova -- A construction of minimal surfaces in flat tori by swelling / N. Ejiri -- On NLS equations on BD.I symmetric spaces with constant boundary conditions / V. S. Gerdjikov, N. A. Kostov -- Orthogonal almost complex structures on S[symbol] x R[symbol] / H. Hashimoto, M. Ohashi -- Persistence of solutions for some integrable shallow water equations / D. Henry -- Some geometric properties and objects related to Bézier curves / M. J. Hristov -- Heisenberg relations in the general case / B. Z. Iliev -- Poisson structures of equations associated with groups of diffeomorphisms / R. I. Ivanov -- Hyperbolic Gauss maps and parallel surfaces in hyperbolic three-space / M. Kokubu -- On the lax pair for two and three wave interaction system / N. A. Kostov -- Mathematical outlook of fractals and chaos related to simple orthorhombic Ising-Onsager-Zhang lattices / J. Ławrynowicz, S. Marchiafava, M. Nowak-Kepczyk -- A characterization of Clifford minimal hypersurfaces of a sphere in terms of their geodesics / S. Maeda -- On the curvature properties of real time-like hypersurfaces of Kähler manifolds with Norden metric / M. Manev, M. Teofilova -- Some submanifolds of almost contact manifolds with Norden metric / G. Nakova -- A short note on the double-complex Laplace operator / P. Popivanov -- Monogenic, hypermonogenic and holomorphic Cliffordian functions - a survey / I. P. Ramadanoff -- On some classes of exact solutions of eikonal equation / Ł. T. Stepień -- Dirichlet property for tessellations of tiling-type 4 on a plane by congrent pentagons / Y. Takeo, T. Adachi -- Almost complex connections on almost complex manifolds with Norden metric / M. Teofilova -- Pseudo-boson coherent and Fock states / D. A. Trifonov -- New integrable equations of mKdV type / T. I. Valchev -- Integrable dynamical systems of the Frenet-Serret type / V. M. Vassilev, P. A. Djondjorov, I. M. Mladenov

A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation presents a mathematical formulation of the kinematics, dynamics, and control of robot manipulators. It uses an elegant set of mathematical tools that emphasizes the geometry of robot motion and allows a large class of robotic manipulation problems to be analyzed within a unified framework. The foundation of the book is a derivation of robot kinematics using the product of the exponentials formula. The authors explore the kinematics of open-chain manipulators and multifingered robot hands, present an analysis of the dynamics and control of robot systems, discuss the specification and control of internal forces and internal motions, and address the implications of the nonholonomic nature of rolling contact are addressed, as well. The wealth of information, numerous examples, and exercises make A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation valuable as both a reference for robotics researchers and a text for students in advanced robotics courses.

Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (1844-1906) was an Austrian physicist famous for his founding contributions in the fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics. He was one of the most important advocates for atomic theory when that scientific model was still highly controversial. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of his death in Duino, the International Symposium ``Boltzmann's Legacy'' was held at the Erwin Schrodinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics in June 2006. This text covers a broad spectrum of topics ranging from equilibrium statistical and nonequilibrium statistical physics, ergodic theory and chaos to basic questions of biology and historical accounts of Boltzmann's work. Besides the lectures presented at the symposium the volume also contains contributions specially written for this occasion. The articles give a broad overview of Boltzmann's legacy to the sciences from the standpoint of some of today's leading scholars in the field. The book addresses students and researchers in mathematics, physics, and the history of science.

These notes developed from a course on the numerical solution of conservation laws first taught at the University of Washington in the fall of 1988 and then at ETH during the following spring. The overall emphasis is on studying the mathematical tools that are essential in de veloping, analyzing, and successfully using numerical methods for nonlinear systems of conservation laws, particularly for problems involving shock waves. A reasonable un derstanding of the mathematical structure of these equations and their solutions is first required, and Part I of these notes deals with this theory. Part II deals more directly with numerical methods, again with the emphasis on general tools that are of broad use. I have stressed the underlying ideas used in various classes of methods rather than present ing the most sophisticated methods in great detail. My aim was to provide a sufficient background that students could then approach the current research literature with the necessary tools and understanding. vVithout the wonders of TeX and LaTeX, these notes would never have been put together. The professional-looking results perhaps obscure the fact that these are indeed lecture notes. Some sections have been reworked several times by now, but others are still preliminary. I can only hope that the errors are not too blatant. Moreover, the breadth and depth of coverage was limited by the length of these courses, and some parts are rather sketchy.

This book is about toric topology, a new area of mathematics that emerged at the end of the 1990s on the border of equivariant topology, algebraic and symplectic geometry, combinatorics, and commutative algebra. It has quickly grown into a very active area with many links to other areas of mathematics, and continues to attract experts from different fields. The key players in toric topology are moment-angle manifolds, a class of manifolds with torus actions defined in combinatorial terms. Construction of moment-angle manifolds relates to combinatorial geometry and algebraic geometry of toric varieties via the notion of a quasitoric manifold. Discovery of remarkable geometric structures on moment-angle manifolds led to important connections with classical and modern areas of symplectic, Lagrangian, and non-Kaehler complex geometry. A related categorical construction of moment-angle complexes and polyhedral products provides for a universal framework for many fundamental constructions of homotopical topology. The study of polyhedral products is now evolving into a separate subject of homotopy theory. A new perspective on torus actions has also contributed to the development of classical areas of algebraic topology, such as complex cobordism. This book includes many open problems and is addressed to experts interested in new ideas linking all the subjects involved, as well as to graduate students and young researchers ready to enter this beautiful new area.

The XIIIth Bialowieza Summer Workshop was held from July 9 to 15, 1994. While still within the general framework of Differential Geometric Methods in Physics, the XnIth Workshop was expanded in scope to include quantum groups, q-deformations and non-commutative geometry. It is expected that lectures on these topics will now become an integral part of future workshops. In the more traditional areas, lectures were devoted to topics in quantization, field theory, group representations, coherent states, complex and Poisson structures, the Berry phase, graded contractions and some infinite-dimensional systems. Those of us who have taken part in the evolution of the workshops over the years, feel a good measure of satisfaction with the excellent quality of the papers presented, in particular the mathematical rigour and novelty. Each year a significant number of new results are presented and future directions of research are discussed. Their freshness and immediacy inevitably leads to intense discussions and an exchange of ideas in an informal and physically charming environment. The present workshop also had a higher attendance than its predecessors, with ap proximately 65 registered participants. As usual, there was a large number of graduate students and young researchers among them.