Margot Brereton Queensland University of Technology 2 George St. GPO Box 2434 Brisbane QLD 4001 Australia [email protected] Hadi Mirisaee, Queensland University of Technology 2 George St. GPO Box 2434 Brisbane QLD 4001 Australia [email protected], Sunil Ghelawat Queensland University of Technology 2 George St. GPO Box 2434 Brisbane QLD 4001 Australia [email protected] Paul Roe Queen...

J.t is an honor to introduce the 1997 Proctor Award Lecture, to be given by George B. Benedek, Professor of Physics and Biological Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in the Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. George was born and raised in New York City and earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. George e...

We consider the concept of fuzzy quasi-contractions initiated by '{C}iri'{c} in the setting of fuzzy metric spaces and establish fixed point theorems for quasi-contractive mappings and for fuzzy $mathcal{H}$-contractive mappings on M-complete fuzzy metric spaces in the sense of George and Veeramani.The results are illustrated by a representative example.

Stanford News Service George B. Dantzig is well known as the father of linear programming. This “underestimates his paternal accomplishments” as is compellingly illustrated in the recent book [3] entitled The Basic George B. Dantzig. Dantzig made either fundamental or founding contributions in mathematical statistics, linear programming, network optimization, integer programming, nonlinear prog...