Mathematics and Science

This is the Proceedings of the Second International Summer School in High Energy Physics, focusing on "e;Standard Model and Beyond"e;, we have held in M gla, Turkey, on 25-30 September 2006.

The papers contained in this volume were presented at the 18th Annual S- posium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2007) held at the University of Western Ontario, in London, Ontario, Canada from July 9 to 11, 2007.

The TCP06 conference in Parksville on Vancouver Island showcased the impressive progress in the study of fundamental physics using trapped charged particles.

The Universe would be a dull and dark place if the gaseous baryons did not cool, collapse, and form stars and galaxies.

This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the Sixth Int- national Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT) which was organized in Brno, Czech Republic, from August 30 to September 1 of 2006.

Modeling and computations in electromagnetics is a quite novel and growing discipline, expanding as a result of the steadily increasing demand for designing electrical devices, modeling electromagnetic materials, and simulating electromagnetic fields in nanoscale structures.

The advent of the Internet has opened up a wealth of applications, but also given rise to a host of new problems.

In 1901, Karl Pearson invented Principal Component Analysis (PCA).

The papers in this volume were presented at the 10th Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures (WADS 2005).

The automatic analysis of images and signals in medicine, biotechnology, and chemistry is a challenging and demanding field.

Understanding the mechanisms involved in life (e.

We are currently witnessing a proliferation in parallel and distributed processing technologies and applications.

Hearing - From Sensory Processing to Perception presents the papers of the latest "e;International Symposium on Hearing"e;, a meeting held every three years focusing on psychoacoustics and the research of the physiological mechanisms underlying auditory perception.

The book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2007, held in Sante Fe, NM, USA in June 2007.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Experimental and Efficient Algorithms, WEA 2007, held in Rome, Italy, in June 2007.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, CPAIOR 2007, held in Brussels, Belgium in May 2007.

This volume comprises the communications presented at the ETC 11, the EUROMECH European Turbulence conference held in 2007 in Porto.

Over the last decades, the use of lasers in artwork conservation has became an important tool for many conservators, scientists, architects and other experts, who are involved in the care of monuments and artefacts or applied laser technology.

The QNP series of international conferences on Quarks and Nuclear Physics is by now a well established and highly respected forum where the most recent developments in the field are discussed and communicated.