ANALYTIC METHODS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS

Abstract

The event of the Symposium on Analytic Methods in Mathematical Physics, 2 through 6 June 68, marked the end of the third year of an interdisciplinary program in mathematical physics at Indiana University. This joint program was initiated because both departments were aware of mathematical physics as an important discipline in its own right. The advanced seminars in scattering theory, several complex variables, differential equations, elasticity, and general methods of mathematical physics made the participants even more conscious of the central role played by complex variable techniques in theoretical physics. As anticipated, a symposium which would stress the uses of complex analysis and related methods for the solving of problems motivated by physics was of great interest to mathematicians and physicists alike.