Applied and Industrial Mathematics, Venice—2, 1998

Invited Papers.- Weighted Monte Carlo: A New Technique for Calibrating Asset-Pricing Models.- Nonlocal Models of Shear Banding.- Stabilization Techniques for the Finite Element Method.- Moving Point Interactions.- A Mathematical Model for the Analysis of Polymers P-V-T-Diagrams.- Asymptotic Properties of Reaction-Diffussion Systems Modeling Chemotaxis.- Two Integral Geometry Problems of Volterra Type on a Plane.- Shallow water & the Diffeomorphism Group.- Island Dynamics and Level Set Methods for Continuum Modeling of Epitaxial Growth.- On a Heuristic Expansion Method in the Strong Localization Regime of the Theory of Disordered Systems.- Studying the Asymptotics of Selberg-type Integrals.- Contributed Selected Papers.- Inverse Problem of Electromagnetoelasticity: Simultaneous Determination of Elastic and Electromagnetic Parameters.- Wave Propagation and Oscillations in a Semiconductor Nanostructure.- Pile-up Solutions for a Mixed System of Conservation Laws Modelling Dislocation Interaction in Crystals.- Vortex Stretching by a Simple Hyperbolic Saddle.- On the Solution of the Whitham Equations: An Estimate of the Genus.- Non-Generic Twinning Concentrations for a Class of Active Alloys.- Infiltration of a Polymerizing Resin in a Deformable Preform for Fiber Reinforced Composites.- Relaxed Picard-like Methods for Nonlinear Integral Equations Arising in Transport Theory.- Computerized X-ray Tomography Algorithms on Base Distributions with Power Singularity.- Iterative Space-Marching Method for Compressible Flows and all Speeds.