Honorary Editor
Christopher T. H. Baker
University of Manchester, Department of Mathematics, Manchester M13 9PL, UK

Peter Constantin
Princeton University, Department of Mathematics, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA

Avner Friedman
Ohio State University, Department of Mathematics, Columbus, OH 43210, USA

John D. Gibbon
Imperial College London, Department of Mathematics, London SW7 2BZ, England, UK

George Leitmann
University of California at Berkeley, College of Engineering, Berkeley, CA 94720,USA

Pierre - Louis Lions
Universite′ de Paris-Dauphine, CRMD, 75775 Paris Cedex 16, France

Paul A. Samuelson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

H. M. Srivastava
University of Victoria, Department of Mathematics, Victoria, B.C. V8W 3R4, Canada

Jie Sun
National University of Singapore, Department of Mathematics, Singapore

Hans Joachin Werner
University of Bonn, Department of Statistics, D-53113 Bonn, Germany

Alexander J. Zaslavski
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics, Haifa, Israel

Eberhard Zeidler
Univrsitat Leipzig, Mathematische Institut, 04109 Leipzig, Germany

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Editors
Yakov Alber
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics, 32000 Haifa, Israel

Antonio Ambrosetti
Scoula Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Scienze, 56100 Pisa, Italy

Ioannis K. Argyros
Cameron University, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Lawton, OK 73505, USA

Zvi Artstein
Weizmann Institute of Science, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, Rehovot 76100, Israel

Richard I. Avery
Dakota State University, Department of Mathematics, Madison, SD 57042

Mark S. Ashbaugh
University of Missouri - Columbia, Department of Mathematics, Columbia, MO 65211, USA

Thomas Bartsch
Universitat Heidelberg, Mathematisches Institut, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

Patricia Bauman
Purdue University, Department of Mathematics, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA

Jerrold Bebernes
University of Colorado–Boulder, Program in Applied Mathematics, Boulder, CO 80309, USA

Edward J. Beltrami
SUNY - Stony Brook, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook, NY11794, USA

Alain Bensoussan
INRIA, Domanie de Voluceau, 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, France

Henri Berestycki
Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Laboratoire d’Analyse Numerique, F-75005 Paris, France

Melvyn S. Berger
University of Massachusetts, Department of Mathematics, Amherst, MA 01003,USA

Jerry L. Bona
University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Chicago, IL 60680, USA

T. A. Burton
Southern Illinois University, Department of Mathematics, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA

S. J. Chapman
University of Oxford, Mathematical Institute, Oxford OX1 3LB, England, UK

Carmen Chicone
University of Missouri - Columbia, Department of Mathematics, Columbia, MO 65211, USA

Shui - Nee Chow
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Mathematics, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA

Thomas F. Coleman
Cornell University, Advanced Computing Research Institute, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

Constantin Corduneanu
University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Mathematics, Arlington, TX 76019, USA

Jane Cronin
Rutgers University, c/o 110 Valentine Street, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA

J. M. Cushing
University of Arizona, Department of Mathematics, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA

C. M. Dafermos
Brown University, School of Applied Mathematics, Providence, RI 02912, USA

E. Norman Dancer
University of Sydney, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia

G. Da Prato
Scoula Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Scienze, 56100 Pisa, Italy

R. Dautray
L’academie des Sciences, 12 rue du Capitaine Scott, 75752 Paris Cedex, France

Djairo G. De Figueiredo
IMPECC-UNIAMP, Caixa Postal 6065, 13081 Campinas, S.P., Brazil

George Dinca
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics, 70109 Bucharest, Romania

J. R. Dorroh
Louisiana State University, Department of mathematics, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA

Eugene Dshalalow
Florida Institute of Technology, Mathematical Sciences, Melbourne, FL 32901, USA

Robert E. Easton
University of Colorado - Boulder, Applied Mathematics Program, Boulder, CO 80308, USA

Allan L. Edelson
University of California at Davis, Department of Mathematics, Davis, CA 95616, USA

D. E. Edmunds
University of Sussex, Department of Mathematics, Brighton BN1 9QH, Sussex, UK

Paul W. Eloe
University of Dayton, Department of Mathematics, Dayton, OH 45460, USA

Lawrence C. Evans
University of California at Berkeley, Department of Mathematics, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

Michael C. Ferris
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Department of Computer Science, Madison, WI 53706, USA

Robert Finn
Stanford University, Department of Mathematics, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

Benno Fuchssteiner
Universitat di Paderborn, Gesmthochschule Paderborn, Mathematik Informatik, 4790 Pader-born, Germany

Marcellino Gaudenzi
Universite di Udine, Dipartimento di Finanza, Via Tomadini 30, 33100 Udine, Italy

James Glimm
SUNY - Stony Brook, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA

Roland Glowinski
University of Houston, Department of Mathematics, Houston, TX 77204, USA

Ali Hajjafar
University of Akron, Department of Mathematics, Akron, OH 44325, USA

Nan - Jing Huang
Sichuan University, Department of Mathematics, Chengdu, Sichuan 610064, P.R. China

Alexander Ioffe
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics, 32000 Haifa, Israel

Hitoshi Ishii
Chuo University, Department of Mathematics, Tokyo 112, Japan

David Kinderlehrer
Carnegie Mellon University, Center for Nonlinear Analysis, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

Philip Korman
University of Cincinnati, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA

Gerry Ladas
University of Rhode Island, Department of Mathematics, Kingston, RI 02881, USA

Michel L. Lapidus
University of California at Riverside, Department of Mathematics, Riverside, CA 92521, USA

Herve Le Dret
U niversite′ P ierre et Marie Curie, Laboratoire d’Analyse Numerique, F-75005 Paris Cedex, France

Gary M. Lieberman
Iowa State University, Department of Mathematics, Ames, IA 50011, USA

Mark Levi
Penn State University, Department of Mathematics, University Park, PA 16802, USA

En - Bing Lin
Central Michigan University, Department of Mathematics, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859, USA

Fang H. Lin
New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY 10012, USA

J. David Logan
University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Department of Mathematics, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA

Kyuya Masuda
Tohoku University, Mathematical Institute, Sendai 980, Japan

J. Mawhin
Universite Catholique de Louvain, Institut de Mathematique Pure et Applique, B-1348 Louvain- La-Neuve, Belgium

P. J. McKenna
University of Connecticut - Storrs, Department of Mathematics, Storrs, CT 06269, USA

Ram N. Mohapatra
University of Central Florida, Department of Mathematics, Orlando, FL 32816, USA

Jrean M. Morel
Universite Paris - Dauphine Ceremade, 75775 Paris Cedex 16, France

Sam Nadler, Jr.
West Virginia University, Department of Mathematics, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA

M. Zuhair Nashed
University of Central Florida, Department of Mathematics, Orlando, FL 32816, USA

John W. Neuberger
University of North Texas, Department of Mathematics, Denton, TX 76205, USA

Hans G. Othmer
University of Utah, Department of Mathematics, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA

C. V. Pao
North Carolina State University, Department of Mathematics, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA

William O. Ray
University of Oklahoma, Graduate College, Norman, OK 73019, USA

Simeon Reich
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics, 32000 Haifa, Israel

Walter B. Richardson, Jr.
University of Texas at San Antonio, Dept. of Applied Math., San Antonio, TX 78249, USA

Elemer E. Rossinger
University of Pretoria, Department of Mathematics, Pretoria 002, South Africa

Jean - Claude Saut
Universite d’Paris - Sud et CNRS, Laboratoire d’Analyse Numerique, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France

Martin Schechter
University of California at Irvine, Department of Mathematics, Irvine, CA 92717, USA

Victor L. Shapiro
University of California at Riverside, Department of Mathematics, Riverside, CA 92521, USA

Wen - Xian Shen
Auburn University, Department of Mathematics, Auburn, AL 36849, USA

Lawrence Sirovich
Brown University, Division of Applied Mathematics, Providence, RI 02912, USA

Marshall Slemrod
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Department of Mathematics, Madison, WI 53715 USA

Joel Spruck
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Mathematics, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

Peter Sternberg G
Indiana University at Bloomington, Department of Mathematics, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA

Walter A. Strauss
Brown University, Department of Mathematics, Providence, RI 02912, USA

Michael E. Taylor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Mathematics, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA

Michel Thera
Universite de Limoges, Department de Mathematiques, 87060 Limoges Cedex, France

John F. Toland
University of Bath, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Bath BA2 7AY, UK

Athanasios Tzavaras
University of Maryland, Department of Mathematics, College Park, MD 20742, USA

Alberto Valli
Universite Degli Studi di Trento, Dipartimento di Matematica, 38050 Povo (Trento), Italy

Glenn F. Webb
Vanderbilt University, Department of Mathematics, Nashville, TN 37240, USA

M. W. Wong
York University, Department of Mathematics, North York, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada

Hong - Kun Xu
National Sun Yat-Sen University, Department of Applied Mathematics, Taiwan 80424, R.O.

China
Zhongxin Zhao
University of Missouri - Columbia, Department of Mathematics, Columbia, MO 65211, USA