H.1 WHY QUEUEING ANALYSIS?........................................................................2! H.2 THE SINGLE-SERVER QUEUE......................................................................4! H.3 THE MULTISERVER QUEUE.........................................................................7! H.4 POISSON ARRIVAL RATE .........................................................................

We present a compact formula computing rational trigonometric sums. Such sums appeared in the work of E. Verlinde on the dimension of conformal blocks in WessZumino-Witten (WZW) theory. As an application, we show that a formula of J.-M. Bismut and F. Labourie for the Riemann-Roch numbers of moduli spaces of flat connections on a Riemann surface coincides with Verlinde’s expression.

In a previous paper the CSCR domain was defined. Here this is taken to the next stage where we consider the design of a particular Collaborative Research Environment to support Students and Supervisors CRESS. Following the CSCR structure a preliminary design for CRESS has been established and a portal framework analysis is undertaken in order to determine the most appropriate set of tools for i...

We examine a class of conformal metrics arising in the \N = 2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory" of Seiberg and Witten. We provide several alternate characterizations of this class of metrics and proceed to examine issues of existence and boundary behavior and to parameterize the collection of Seiberg-Witten metrics with isolated non-essential singularities on a xed compact Riemann surface. In c...