Trends in Partial Differential Equations (volume 10 of the Advanced Lectures in Mathematics series)

In a career of nearly sixty years of mathematical research, Guangchang Dong's influence on the development of partial differential equations in China has been immense, at both teaching and research levels. To celebrate Prof. Dong's eightieth birthday, an international conference called Elliptic and Parabolic Equations and Applications was held in August 2008 at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. This volume presents fifteen papers in all -- some drawn from lectures given at the conference, others by his friends and former students.