Transactions of the twenty-fourth conference of army mathematicians

Charlottesville, Virginia: US Army Foreign Science and Technology center, School of Engineering and Applied Science University of Virginia, 1978. — 496 p.The theme of the Twenty-fourth Conference of Army Mathematicians was «stochastic processes». Four of the six invited speakers, listed below , spoke on topics related to this theme. In recent years, there has been a shift of interest from the deterministic descriptive processes to the stochastic processes. This has been brought about by the need to explain many of the phenomena arising in such fields as physics, engineering, biology, and medicine. The complexities and uncertainties that appear in these fields have forced mathematicians to make frequent use of probabilistic concepts. Army scientists are having to deal with stochastic equations, principally those associated with ordinary and partial differential equations. These are concerned with such phenomena as wave propagation, turbulence and diffusion theory.
2 June 1978 at Charlottesville , Virginia. The U.S. Army Foreign Science and Technology Center (AFSATC), together with the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences of the University of Virginia, served as its hosts. Colonel Anthony P. Simkus, Commanding Officer of the US Army Research Office, played a key role in obtaining the hosts for this meeting. This fact is borne out by the following quotation from a letter by Colonel Claire J. Reeder, Commanding Officer of AFSATC. “I was pleased to receive the proposal by your office to hold the Arm Mathematicians in Charlottesville. As another y Organization with a scientific and technical miss ion, I welcome such opportunities to Interact with the Army research community. In this case the University of Virginia will be cooperating with us as joint host for the meeting and will provide the conference facilities.”