Mark Alber, Bei Hu and Joachim Rosenthal ... ... vii Part I Some Remarks on Applied Mathematics Roger Brockett ... ... ... ... ... 1 Mathematics is a Profession Christopher 1. Byrnes ... ... ... ... . 4 Comments on Applied Mathematics Avner Friedman ... ... ... ... . . 9 Towards an Applied Mathematics for Computer Science Jeremy Gunawardena ... ... ... ... . 11 Infomercial for Applied Mathematics Darryl Holm ... ... ... ... ... 15 On Research in Mathematical Economics M. Ali Khan ... ... ... ... ... 21 Applied Mathematics in the Computer and Communications Industry Brian Marcus ... ... ... ... ... 25 'frends in Applied Mathematics Jerrold E. Marsden ... ... ... ... 28 Applied Mathematics as an Interdisciplinary Subject Clyde F. Martin ... ... ... ... . 31 vi Contents Panel Discussion on Future Directions in Applied Mathe matics Laurence R. Taylor ... ... ... ... 38 Part II Feedback Stabilization of Relative Equilibria for Mechanical Systems with Symmetry A.M. Bloch, J.E. Marsden and G. Sanchez ... ... . 43 Oscillatory Descent for Function Minimization R. Brockett ... ... ... ... ... 65 On the Well-Posedness of the Rational Covariance Extension Problem C. l. Byrnes, H.J. Landau and A. Lindquist ... ... 83 Singular Limits in Fluid Mechanics P. Constantin ... ... ... ... ... 109 Singularities and Defects in Patterns Far from Threshold N.M. Ercolani ... ... ... ... ... 137 Mathematical Modeling and Simulation for Applications of Fluid Flow in Porous Media R.E. Ewing ... ... ... ... ... 161 On Loeb Measure Spaces and their Significance for N on Cooperative Game Theory M.A. Khan and Y. Sun ... ... ... ... 183 Mechanical Systems with Symmetry, Variational Principles, and Integration Algorithms J.E. Marsden and J.M. Wendlandt ... ... ... 219 Preface The applied sciences are faced with increasingly complex problems which call for sophisticated mathematical models.

"This volume contains survey articles and general thoughts and views on applied mathematics by the plenary speakers and panelists of a symposium on current and future directions in applied mathematics, which was held in the spring of 1996 at the University of Notre Dame." "Each speaker was asked to address specifically the open questions, important trends, and available tools in their fields, what advice they would give to students entering these fields, and the links between pure and applied mathematics with respect to future developments. The book will be a useful guide to anyone, researcher, research administrator, student or teacher involved with the application of mathematics."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The field of control provides the principles and methods used to design physical and information systems that maintain desirable performance by sensing and automatically adapting to changes in the environment. This report spells out some of the prospects for control in the current and future technological environment, describes the role the field will play in military, commercial, and scientific applications over the next decade, and recommends actions required to enable new breakthroughs in engineering and technology through the application of control research. This brief yet thorough report provides renewed vision, a detailed list of new application areas, and specific recommendations for future research directions in control, dynamics, and systems, compiled by experts in the field.

This book describes the latest advances in intelligent techniques such as fuzzy logic, neural networks, and optimization algorithms, and their relevance in building intelligent information systems in combination with applied mathematics. The authors also outline the applications of these systems in areas like intelligent control and robotics, pattern recognition, medical diagnosis, time series prediction, and optimization of complex problems. By sharing fresh ideas and identifying new targets/problems it offers young researchers and students new directions for their future research. The book is intended for readers from mathematics and computer science, in particular professors and students working on theory and applications of intelligent systems for real-world applications.

It is close enough to the end of the century to make a guess as to what the Encyclopedia Britannica article on the history of mathematics will report in 2582: "We have said that the dominating theme of the Nineteenth Century was the development and application of the theory of functions of one variable. At the beginning of the Twentieth Century, mathematicians turned optimistically to the study off unctions of several variables. But wholly unexpected difficulties were met, new phenomena were discovered, and new fields of mathematics sprung up to study and master them. As a result, except where development of methods from earlier centuries continued, there was a recoil from applications. Most of the best mathematicians of the first two-thirds of the century devoted their efforts entirely to pure mathe matics. In the last third, however, the powerful methods devised by then for higher-dimensional problems were turned onto applications, and the tools of applied mathematics were drastically changed. By the end of the century, the temporary overemphasis on pure mathematics was completely gone and the traditional interconnections between pure mathematics and applications restored. "This century also saw the first primitive beginnings of the electronic calculator, whose development in the next century led to our modern methods of handling mathematics.