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This volume contains the proceeding of the National Research
Symposium on Geometric Analysis and Applications held at the
Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, Australian National
University, Canberra, from June 26-30, 2000. The Symposium
celebrated the many significant contributions of Professor
Derek W. Robinson to mathematics, on the occasion of his 65th
birthday. The first day, Monday June 26, in particular was
devoted to Derek; speakers with a particularly close connection
to Derek, including A. Carey, M. Cowling, D. Evans, P. Jorgensen
and T. ter Elst recalled and elaborated on important aspects of
Derek's work, and the day ended with a banquet in Derek's honour.
The Symposium brought together researchers working in harmonic
analysis, linear and nonlinear partial differential equations,
quantum mechanics and mathematical physics, and included
researchers from North America, Europe and Asia as well as Australasia.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the contributors to
this volume. We would like especially thank to Derek W. Robinson
for his participation. A short synopsis of Derek's career,
and a full list of his publications to date are included in this volume.
Contributions for the proceedings were sought from all
participants and all papers received were carefully refereed by
peer referees.
Alexander Isaev, Andrew Hassell,
Alan McIntosh, Adam Sikora
(Editors)
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Professor Derek W. Robinson |
Preface and Foreword
Hilary Booth