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Presenting the latest findings in topics from across the mathematical spectrum, this volume includes results in pure mathematics along with a range of new advances and novel applications to other fields such as probability, statistics, biology, and computer science. All contributions feature authors who attended the Association for Women in Mathematics Research Symposium in 2015: this conference, the third in a series of biennial conferences organized by the Association, attracted over 330 participants and showcased the research of women mathematicians from academia, industry, and government.

Mathematics. --- Partial differential equations. --- Applied mathematics. --- Engineering mathematics. --- Topology. --- Biomathematics. --- Mathematics --- Statistics. --- Applications of Mathematics. --- Mathematical and Computational Biology. --- Partial Differential Equations. --- Mathematics Education. --- Statistics, general. --- Study and teaching. --- Biomathematics --- Math --- Science --- Differential equations, partial. --- Partial differential equations --- Statistical analysis --- Statistical data --- Statistical methods --- Statistical science --- Econometrics --- Analysis situs --- Position analysis --- Rubber-sheet geometry --- Geometry --- Polyhedra --- Set theory --- Algebras, Linear --- Mathematics—Study and teaching . --- Statistics . --- Biology --- Engineering --- Engineering analysis --- Mathematical analysis

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Chocolate and sugar, alcohol and tobacco, peyote and hallucinogenic mushrooms—these seductive substances have been a nexus of desire for both pleasure and profit in Mesoamerica since colonial times. But how did these substances seduce? And when and how did they come to be desired and then demanded, even by those who had never encountered them before? The contributors to this volume explore these questions across a range of times, places, and peoples to discover how the individual pleasures of consumption were shaped by social, cultural, economic, and political forces. Focusing on ingestible substances as a group, which has not been done before in the scholarly literature, the chapters in Substance and Seduction trace three key links between colonization and commodification. First, as substances that were taken into the bodies of both colonizers and colonized, these foods and drugs participated in unexpected connections among sites of production and consumption; racial and ethnic categories; and free, forced, and enslaved labor regimes. Second, as commodities developed in the long transition from mercantile to modern capitalism, each substance in some way drew its enduring power from its ability to seduce: to stimulate bodies; to alter minds; to mark class, social, and ethnic boundaries; and to generate wealth. Finally, as objects of scholarly inquiry, each substance rewards interdisciplinary approaches that balance the considerations of pleasure and profit, materiality and morality, and culture and political economy.

Mayas --- Mayas --- Food consumption --- Colonization --- Consumption (Economics) --- Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience --- Ingestion --- Food. --- Substance use --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects --- Social aspects --- Psychological aspects --- History. --- Central America --- Central America --- Social life and customs. --- Colonization.