Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1980

Professor L. K. Hua of Academia Sinica, Beijing, delivering a lecture at the Science Centre of this University During the Conference, three workshop sessions were held on: (1) Mathematics curricula, (2) Contents of courses, and (3) (a) The role of geometry in the mathematics curriculum, (b) The dilemma of teaching and research ； and 11 addresses were delivered: Web geometry Professor S. S. Chern, University of California, Berkeley Finite strip method and its applications Professor Y. K. Cheung, University of Hong Kong Banach algebra, report on the 70’s, prospect for the 80's Professor J. Duncan, University of Stirling Some trends in the teaching of algebra Professor P. J. Hilton, Case Western Reserve University Geometric theory of partial differential equations Professor L. K. Hua, Academia Sinica, Beijing Survey of Jordan Structure Theory Professor Nathan Jacobson, Yale University Stochastic approximation with applications to regression and control Professor T. L. Lai, Columbia University Certain Cohomology groups attached to hermitian symmetric spaces and unitary representations Professor S. Murakami, Osaka University Nuclear spaces and generalized A L-spaces Dr. K. F. Ng & Dr.Y. C. Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong On transverse foliation ProfessorI. Tamura, University of Tokyo Some results in linear geometry Professor Y. C. Wong, University of Hong Kong The Proceedings of the Conference will be published as a special issue of the Southeast Asian Bulletin of Mathematics in summer 1981. 19