This work presents invited contributions from the second International Conference on
Mathematics and Statistics jointly organized by the AUS (American University of Sharjah) and
the AMS (American Mathematical Society). Addressing several research fields across the
mathematical sciences all of the papers were prepared by faculty members at universities in
the Gulf region or prominent international researchers. The current volume is the first of its
kind in the UAE and is intended to set new standards of excellence for collaboration and
scholarship in the region.
