Mathematical Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and e-Learning: Proceedings of an International Workshop held at Rockefeller Foundation' s Bellagio Conference Center, Milan, Italy, 2006

Numerical Methods and Problem Solving.- Quasi-Analytical Computation of Energy Levels and Wave Functions in a Class of Chaotic Cavities with Inserted Objects.- Existence Results and Open Problems in the Kinetic Theory of Dense Gases.- The High Performance Asymptotic Method in Numerical Simulation.- Modelling the Thermal Operation in a Catalytic Converter of an Automobile's Exhaust.- Modelling Transmission Dynamics of Childhood Diseases in the Presence of a Preventive Vaccine: Application of Adomian Decomposition Technique.- A New MPFA Formulation for Subsurface Flow Problems on Unstructured Grids: Derivation of the Discrete Problem.- Analysis of a New MPFA Formulation for Flow Problems in Geologically Complex Media.- A Small Eddy Correction Algorithm for the Primitive Equations of the Ocean.- Modeling and Control of Phenomena.- Aspects of Modeling Transport in Small Systems with a Look at Motor Proteins.- Optimal Control of Ill-Posed Parabolic Distributed Systems.- A Parametric Study of Low Reynolds Number Blood Flow in a Porous, Slowly Varying, Stenotic Artery with Heat Transfer.- Stability of Generalized Convexity and Monotonicity.- Are Viscoelastic Flows Under Control or Out of Control?.- On Topological Optimization and Pollution in Porous Media.- Dynamical Analysis of Infectious Diseases in Spatially Heterogeneous Environments.- Approximate Scale-Invariant Random Fields: Review and Current Developments.- Simulation and Visualization.- Non-Stationary Vibrations of Viscoelastic Circular Cylindrical Thick Shell Under the Influence of Temperature.- Mathematical Vibration Modelling of the Pre-Stressed Viscoelastic Thick-Walled Cylindrical Shell.- Viscoelastic Fluids in a Thin Domain: A Mathematical Study for a Non-Newtonian Lubrication Problem.- From the African sona Tradition to New Types of Designs and Matrices.- Finite Dynamical Systems: A Mathematical Framework for Computer Simulation.- e-Learning.- New Pedagogical Models for Instruction in Mathematics.

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