Disordered and Complex Systems: London, United Kingdom, 10-14 July, 2000
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Overview
This book arose from a conference on Disordered and Complex Systems held at Kings College, London. It takes a broad view of the topic, containing articles on glassy systems and neural networks, information geometry, quantum chaos, reaction-diffusion equations, and mathematical finance. Exciting common threads appear; to give just two examples: information geometry appears in neural network learning, quantum mechanics and interest rate theory, and systems of economic agents can show glassy features.Synopsis
This book arose from a conference on Disordered and Complex Systems held at Kings College, London. It takes a broad view of the topic, containing articles on glassy systems and neural networks, information geometry, quantum chaos, reaction-diffusion equations, and mathematical finance. Exciting common threads appear; to give just two examples: information geometry appears in neural network learning, quantum mechanics and interest rate theory, and systems of economic agents can show glassy features.
Booknews
Casting a wide meaning for the terms disorder and complexity in order to gather researchers from many disciplines, the meeting covered glassy systems and neural networks, information geometry, quantum dynamics and quantum chaos, reaction-diffusion equations, and new directions in mathematical finance. The 50 papers include such discussions as the glassy dynamics of a two-dimensional non- disordered spin model, dualistic properties of the manifold of quantum states, applying the statistical mechanics of random matrices to disordered metals, steady states and long-time asymptotics of solutions of Steater's models, and scaling and multiscaling in financial markets. There is no subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)