Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are among the most dynamic, but also most difficult and error-prone strategic activities a company can undertake. Every business manager will most likely be involved or at least affected by a merger or takeover at some point in their career. Over the length of the

Communication is the most used skill in almost every job. Whatever your position in business, your performance will be judged largely on the basis of your communication ability. The ability to communicate effectively in today's business environment is essential across all industries and is

Variational methods are widely used in mathematical and numerical analysis of various objects and phenomena in physics, biology, economy, and other sciences. The first part of this course of lectures is intended to present in a compact form history, main ideas, and recent trends in the development

The fact that many physical phenomena can be described by partial differential equations (PDEs) has made the optimal control of PDEs one of the central principles in applied mathematics. In particular, it plays a key role as an important tool in many real-world applications, such as in

Markets offer large number of different kinds of derivatives on underlying assets like financial instruments and commodities. A common derivative is an option giving the right to sell (put) or buy (call) a given stock at its expiry. Pricing the derivatives is typically based a stochastic model for

This course presents the Hilbert space solution theory of a class of operator equations involving time-differentiation (evolutionary equations). This class is comprehensive in the sense that it covers all typical models of mathematical physics such as acoustics, thermodynamics, visco-elastics,

This short course is on the theory and practice of multigrid methods and their applications to graph problems. The presentation will follow the subspace correction framework. The material is selected to cover abstract theory of multigrid, heuristic algorithms such as AMG, application and

Textile industry is a traditional and also one of the oldest branches of industry in Latvia. The first textile factory was established already in 1794. In Latvia today textile and clothing industry is a highly developed sector with modern technologies and Latvian manufacturers of textiles/clothing

Many chemical reactions involve redox processes i.e. the transfer of electrons. Electrochemistry offers the means to investigate both the energy and the mechanisms related to these reactions by directly observing the electrons involved in the process. This course will focus on the fundamentals of

NMR is probably better suited than any other experimental technique for the characterization of supramolecular systems. It provides valuable structural information on complexes, the dynamics of their formation, and possible rearrangement between isomeric forms or the interplay between hosts and