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This series is based on work undertaken at the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath), formerly the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), in Berkeley, California. It publishes surveys and workshop proceedings of long-lasting value, as well as lecture notes and monographs by visitors to the Institute. The volumes below are published by Cambridge University Press; earlier ones may be available from Springer-Verlag.

  • General Editors: Silvio Levy, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California

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47 results in Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications

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Modern Signal Processing
  • Edited by Daniel N. Rockmore, Dennis M. Healy, Jr
  • Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
  • Published online:
    25 June 2025
    Print publication:
    05 April 2004
  • Signal processing is everywhere in modern technology. Its mathematical basis and many areas of application are the subject of this book, based on a series of graduate-level lectures held at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. Emphasis is on challenges in the subject, particular techniques adapted to particular technologies, and certain advances in algorithms and theory. The book covers two main areas: computational harmonic analysis, envisioned as a technology for efficiently analysing real data using inherent symmetries; and the challenges inherent in the acquisition, processing and analysis of images and sensing data in general [EMDASH] ranging from sonar on a submarine to a neuroscientist's fMRI study.

New Directions in Hopf Algebras
  • Edited by Susan Montgomery, Hans-Jurgen Schneider
  • Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
  • Published online:
    25 June 2025
    Print publication:
    06 May 2002
  • Hopf algebras have important connections to quantum theory, Lie algebras, knot and braid theory, operator algebras and other areas of physics and mathematics. They have been intensely studied in the past; in particular, the solution of a number of conjectures of Kaplansky from the 1970s has led to progress on the classification of semisimple Hopf algebras and on the structure of pointed Hopf algebras. Among the topics covered are results toward the classification of finite-dimensional Hopf algebras (semisimple and non-semisimple), as well as what is known about the extension theory of Hopf algebras. Some papers consider Hopf versions of classical topics, such as the Brauer group, while others are closer to work in quantum groups. The book also explores the connections and applications of Hopf algebras to other fields.

Symplectic, Poisson, and Noncommutative Geometry
  • Edited by Tohru Eguchi, Yakov Eliashberg, Yoshiaki Maeda
  • Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
  • Published online:
    25 June 2025
    Print publication:
    25 August 2014
  • Symplectic geometry originated in physics, but it has flourished as an independent subject in mathematics, together with its offspring, symplectic topology. Symplectic methods have even been applied back to mathematical physics. Noncommutative geometry has developed an alternative mathematical quantization scheme based on a geometric approach to operator algebras. Deformation quantization, a blend of symplectic methods and noncommutative geometry, approaches quantum mechanics from a more algebraic viewpoint, as it addresses quantization as a deformation of Poisson structures. This volume contains seven chapters based on lectures given by invited speakers at two May 2010 workshops held at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute: Symplectic and Poisson Geometry in Interaction with Analysis, Algebra and Topology (honoring Alan Weinstein, one of the key figures in the field) and Symplectic Geometry, Noncommutative Geometry and Physics. The chapters include presentations of previously unpublished results and comprehensive reviews, including recent developments in these areas.

Games of No Chance 4
  • Edited by Richard J. Nowakowski
  • Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
  • Published online:
    30 May 2025
    Print publication:
    16 April 2015
  • Combinatorial games are the strategy games that people like to play, for example chess, Hex, and Go. They differ from economic games in that there are two players who play alternately with no hidden cards and no dice. These games have a mathematical structure that allows players to analyse them in the abstract. Games of No Chance 4 contains the first comprehensive explorations of misère (last player to move loses) games, extends the theory for some classes of normal-play (last player to move wins) games and extends the analysis for some specific games. It includes a tutorial for the very successful approach to analysing misère impartial games and the first attempt at using it for misère partisan games. Hex and Go are featured, as well as new games: Toppling Dominoes and Maze. Updated versions of Unsolved Problems in Combinatorial Game Theory and the Combinatorial Games Bibliography complete the volume.

Algorithmic Number Theory
  • Lattices, Number Fields, Curves and Cryptography
  • Edited by J. P. Buhler, P. Stevenhagen
  • Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
  • Published online:
    30 May 2025
    Print publication:
    20 October 2008
  • Number theory is one of the oldest and most appealing areas of mathematics. Computation has always played a role in number theory, a role which has increased dramatically in the last 20 or 30 years, both because of the advent of modern computers, and because of the discovery of surprising and powerful algorithms. As a consequence, algorithmic number theory has gradually emerged as an important and distinct field with connections to computer science and cryptography as well as other areas of mathematics. This text provides a comprehensive introduction to algorithmic number theory for beginning graduate students, written by the leading experts in the field. It includes several articles that cover the essential topics in this area, and in addition, there are contributions pointing in broader directions, including cryptography, computational class field theory, zeta functions and L-series, discrete logarithm algorithms, and quantum computing.

Inverse Problems and Applications
  • Inside Out II
  • Edited by Gunther Uhlmann
  • Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
  • Published online:
    30 May 2025
    Print publication:
    17 December 2012
  • Inverse problems lie at the heart of contemporary scientific inquiry and technological development. Applications include a variety of medical and other imaging techniques, which are used for early detection of cancer and pulmonary edema, location of oil and mineral deposits in the Earth's interior, creation of astrophysical images from telescope data, finding cracks and interfaces within materials, shape optimization, model identification in growth processes, and modeling in the life sciences among others. The expository survey essays in this book describe recent developments in inverse problems and imaging, including hybrid or couple-physics methods arising in medical imaging, Calderon's problem and electrical impedance tomography, inverse problems arising in global seismology and oil exploration, inverse spectral problems, and the study of asymptotically hyperbolic spaces. It is suitable for graduate students and researchers interested in inverse problems and their applications.

Commutative Algebra and Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry
  • Volume 1, Expository Articles
  • Edited by David Eisenbud, Srikanth B. Iyengar, Anurag K. Singh, J. Toby Stafford, Michel Van den Bergh
  • Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
  • Published online:
    29 May 2025
    Print publication:
    19 November 2015
  • In the 2012–13 academic year, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, hosted programs in Commutative Algebra (Fall 2012 and Spring 2013) and Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory (Spring 2013). There have been many significant developments in these fields in recent years; what is more, the boundary between them has become increasingly blurred. This was apparent during the MSRI program, where there were a number of joint seminars on subjects of common interest: birational geometry, D-modules, invariant theory, matrix factorizations, noncommutative resolutions, singularity categories, support varieties, and tilting theory, to name a few. These volumes reflect the lively interaction between the subjects witnessed at MSRI. The Introductory Workshops and Connections for Women Workshops for the two programs included lecture series by experts in the field. The volumes include a number of survey articles based on these lectures, along with expository articles and research papers by participants of the programs. Volume 1 contains expository papers ideal for those entering the field.

Current Developments in Algebraic Geometry
  • Edited by Lucia Caporaso, James McKernan, Mircea Mustata, Mihnea Popa
  • Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
  • Published online:
    29 May 2025
    Print publication:
    19 March 2012
  • Algebraic geometry is one of the most diverse fields of research in mathematics. It has had an incredible evolution over the past century, with new subfields constantly branching off and spectacular progress in certain directions, and at the same time, with many fundamental unsolved problems still to be tackled. In the spring of 2009 the first main workshop of the MSRI algebraic geometry program served as an introductory panorama of current progress in the field, addressed to both beginners and experts. This volume reflects that spirit, offering expository overviews of the state of the art in many areas of algebraic geometry. Prerequisites are kept to a minimum, making the book accessible to a broad range of mathematicians. Many chapters present approaches to long-standing open problems by means of modern techniques currently under development and contain questions and conjectures to help spur future research.

A Window into Zeta and Modular Physics
  • Edited by Klaus Kirsten, Floyd L. Williams
  • Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
  • Published online:
    29 May 2025
    Print publication:
    24 May 2010
  • This book provides an introduction to (1) various zeta functions (for example, Riemann, Hurwitz, Barnes, Epstein, Selberg, and Ruelle), including graph zeta functions; (2) modular forms (Eisenstein series, Hecke and Dirichlet L-functions, Ramanujan's tau function, and cusp forms); and (3) vertex operator algebras (correlation functions, quasimodular forms, modular invariance, rationality, and some current research topics including higher genus conformal field theory). Various concrete applications of the material to physics are presented. These include Kaluza-Klein extra dimensional gravity, Bosonic string calculations, an abstract Cardy formula for black hole entropy, Patterson-Selberg zeta function expression of one-loop quantum field and gravity partition functions, Casimir energy calculations, atomic Schrödinger operators, Bose-Einstein condensation, heat kernel asymptotics, random matrices, quantum chaos, elliptic and theta function solutions of Einstein's equations, a soliton-black hole connection in two-dimensional gravity, and conformal field theory.

Games of No Chance 5
  • Edited by Urban Larsson
  • Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
  • Published online:
    29 May 2025
    Print publication:
    09 May 2019
  • This book surveys the state-of-the-art in the theory of combinatorial games, that is games not involving chance or hidden information. Enthusiasts will find a wide variety of exciting topics, from a trailblazing presentation of scoring to solutions of three piece ending positions of bidding chess. Theories and techniques in many subfields are covered, such as universality, Wythoff Nim variations, misère play, partizan bidding (a.k.a. Richman games), loopy games, and the algebra of placement games. Also included are an updated list of unsolved problems, extremely efficient algorithms for taking and breaking games, a historical exposition of binary numbers and games by David Singmaster, chromatic Nim variations, renormalization for combinatorial games, and a survey of temperature theory by Elwyn Berlekamp, one of the founders of the field. The volume was initiated at the Combinatorial Game Theory Workshop, January 2011, held at the Banff International Research Station.

More Games of No Chance
  • Edited by Richard Nowakowski
  • Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
  • Published online:
    29 May 2025
    Print publication:
    25 November 2002
  • This 2003 book provides an analysis of combinatorial games - games not involving chance or hidden information. It contains a fascinating collection of articles by some well-known names in the field, such as Elwyn Berlekamp and John Conway, plus other researchers in mathematics and computer science, together with some top game players. The articles run the gamut from theoretical approaches (infinite games, generalizations of game values, 2-player cellular automata, Alpha-Beta pruning under partial orders) to other games (Amazons, Chomp, Dot-and-Boxes, Go, Chess, Hex). Many of these advances reflect the interplay of the computer science and the mathematics. The book ends with a bibliography by A. Fraenkel and a list of combinatorial game theory problems by R. K. Guy. Like its predecessor, Games of No Chance, this should be on the shelf of all serious combinatorial games enthusiasts.

Random Matrix Theory, Interacting Particle Systems, and Integrable Systems
  • Edited by Percy Deift, Peter Forrester
  • Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
  • Published online:
    29 May 2025
    Print publication:
    15 December 2014
  • Random matrix theory is at the intersection of linear algebra, probability theory and integrable systems, and has a wide range of applications in physics, engineering, multivariate statistics and beyond. This volume is based on a Fall 2010 MSRI program which generated the solution of long-standing questions on universalities of Wigner matrices and beta-ensembles and opened new research directions especially in relation to the KPZ universality class of interacting particle systems and low-rank perturbations. The book contains review articles and research contributions on all these topics, in addition to other core aspects of random matrix theory such as integrability and free probability theory. It will give both established and new researchers insights into the most recent advances in the field and the connections among many subfields.

Thin Groups and Superstrong Approximation
  • Edited by Emmanuel Breuillard, Hee Oh
  • Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
  • Published online:
    29 May 2025
    Print publication:
    17 February 2014
  • This collection of survey and research articles focuses on recent developments concerning various quantitative aspects of 'thin groups'. There are discrete subgroups of semisimple Lie groups that are both big (i.e. Zariski dense) and small (i.e. of infinite co-volume). This dual nature leads to many intricate questions. Over the past few years, many new ideas and techniques, arising in particular from arithmetic combinatorics, have been involved in the study of such groups, leading, for instance, to far-reaching generalizations of the strong approximation theorem in which congruence quotients are shown to exhibit a spectral gap, referred to as superstrong approximation. This book provides a broad panorama of a very active field of mathematics at the boundary between geometry, dynamical systems, number theory and combinatorics. It is suitable for professional mathematicians and graduate students in mathematics interested in this fascinating area of research.

Commutative Algebra and Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry
  • Volume 2, Research Articles
  • Edited by David Eisenbud, Srikanth B. Iyengar, Anurag K. Singh, J. Toby Stafford, Michel Van den Bergh
  • Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
  • Published online:
    29 May 2025
    Print publication:
    19 November 2015
  • In the 2012–13 academic year, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, hosted programs in Commutative Algebra (Fall 2012 and Spring 2013) and Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory (Spring 2013). There have been many significant developments in these fields in recent years; what is more, the boundary between them has become increasingly blurred. This was apparent during the MSRI program, where there were a number of joint seminars on subjects of common interest: birational geometry, D-modules, invariant theory, matrix factorizations, noncommutative resolutions, singularity categories, support varieties, and tilting theory, to name a few. These volumes reflect the lively interaction between the subjects witnessed at MSRI. The Introductory Workshops and Connections for Women Workshops for the two programs included lecture series by experts in the field. The volumes include a number of survey articles based on these lectures, along with expository articles and research papers by participants of the programs. Volume 2 focuses on the most recent research.

Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry
  • Gwyn Bellamy, Daniel Rogalski, Travis Schedler, J. Toby Stafford, Michael Wemyss, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
  • Published online:
    29 May 2025
    Print publication:
    20 June 2016
  • There are many interactions between noncommutative algebra and representation theory on the one hand and classical algebraic geometry on the other, with important applications in both directions. The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive introduction to some of the most significant topics in this area, including noncommutative projective algebraic geometry, deformation theory, symplectic reflection algebras, and noncommutative resolutions of singularities. The book is based on lecture courses in noncommutative algebraic geometry given by the authors at a Summer Graduate School at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, California in 2012 and, as such, is suitable for advanced graduate students and those undertaking early post-doctorate research. In keeping with the lectures on which the book is based, a large number of exercises are provided, for which partial solutions are included.

Stable Categories and Structured Ring Spectra
  • Edited by Andrew J. Blumberg, Teena Gerhardt, Michael A. Hill
  • Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
  • Published online:
    29 May 2025
    Print publication:
    21 July 2022
  • This comprehensive text focuses on the homotopical technology in use at the forefront of modern algebraic topology. Following on from a standard introductory algebraic topology sequence, it will provide students with a comprehensive background in spectra and structured ring spectra. Each chapter is an extended tutorial by a leader in the field, offering the first really accessible treatment of the modern construction of the stable category in terms of both model categories of point-set diagram spectra and infinity-categories. It is one of the only textbook sources for operadic algebras, structured ring spectra, and Bousfield localization, which are now basic techniques in the field, and the book provides a rare expository treatment of spectral algebraic geometry. Together the contributors — Emily Riehl, Daniel Dugger, Clark Barwick, Michael A. Mandell, Birgit Richter, Tyler Lawson, and Charles Rezk — offer a complete, authoritative source to learn the foundations of this vibrant area.

Generic Polynomials
  • Constructive Aspects of the Inverse Galois Problem
  • Christian U. Jensen, Arne Ledet, Noriko Yui, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    May 2025
    Print publication:
    09 December 2002
  • This book describes a constructive approach to the Inverse Galois problem: Given a finite group G and a field K, determine whether there exists a Galois extension of K whose Galois group is isomorphic to G. Further, if there is such a Galois extension, find an explicit polynomial over K whose Galois group is the prescribed group G. The main theme of the book is an exposition of a family of 'generic' polynomials for certain finite groups, which give all Galois extensions having the required group as their Galois group. The existence of such generic polynomials is discussed, and where they do exist, a detailed treatment of their construction is given. The book also introduces the notion of 'generic dimension' to address the problem of the smallest number of parameters required by a generic polynomial.

Games of No Chance 6
  • Edited by Urban Larsson
  • Published online:
    18 May 2025
    Print publication:
    05 June 2025
  • This collection of 22 research papers and state-of-the-art surveys extends the subseries 'Games of No Chance' pioneered in 1996. Survey topics include Richman bidding combinatorial games, classical subtraction games and absolute additive theory. Other topics discussed include extensions of normal play theory such as Absolute CGT and Affine normal play; additive theory; aspects of generic impartial games arising from the study of nim-values; dead-ending misère reduction theorems; Wythoff-type variations; complexity issues; and aspects of classical games including a rigorous justification of the celebrated result that king, bishop and knight can checkmate a lonely king on an arbitrarily large chessboard. The recurring list of open problems, updated and annotated, will interest all practitioners of CGT and related fields including algebra, computer science, combinatorics, number theory and classical game theory.

Lectures on Mathematical Relativity
  • Justin Corvino, Pengzi Miao
  • Published online:
    03 April 2025
    Print publication:
    10 April 2025
  • This book introduces and explores some of the deep connections between Einstein's theory of gravitation and differential geometry. As an outgrowth of graduate summer schools, the presentation is aimed at graduate students in mathematics and mathematical physics, starting from the foundations of special and general relativity, and moving to more advanced results in geometric analysis and the Einstein constraint equations. Topics include the formulation of the Einstein field equation and the Einstein constraint equations; gluing construction of initial data sets which are Schwarzschild near infinity; and an introduction to the Riemannian Penrose inequality. While the book assumes a background in differential geometry and real analysis, a number of basic results in geometry are provided. There are well over 100 exercises, many woven into the fabric of the chapters as well as others collected at the end of chapters, to give readers a chance to engage and extend the text.

Hamiltonian Systems
  • Dynamics, Analysis, Applications
  • Edited by Albert Fathi, Philip J. Morrison, Tere M-Seara, Sergei Tabachnikov
  • Published online:
    10 May 2024
    Print publication:
    09 May 2024
  • Dynamical systems that are amenable to formulation in terms of a Hamiltonian function or operator encompass a vast swath of fundamental cases in applied mathematics and physics. This carefully edited volume represents work carried out during the special program on Hamiltonian Systems at MSRI in the Fall of 2018. Topics covered include KAM theory, polygonal billiards, Arnold diffusion, quantum hydrodynamics, viscosity solutions of the Hamilton–Jacobi equation, surfaces of locally minimal flux, Denjoy subsystems and horseshoes, and relations to symplectic topology.

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