Preface II
Professor Gerry Ladas has had a long and distinguished career in mathematics. He received a B.S. degree in Mathematics from the University of Athens, Greece, in 1961. He received a M.S. degree in Mathematics from New York University’s Courant Institute in 1966 and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Courant Institute in 1968. He was an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Fairfield University during the academic year 1968–1969. In the fall of 1969, he joined the faculty of the Mathematics Department of the University of Rhode Island, where he remains today as a Professor of Mathematics. During his stay at the University of Rhode Island, he has been the major professor of 21 Ph.D. students and is currently the major professor of 2 Ph.D. candidates. Professor Ladas is one of the very few recipients in the history of the University of Rhode Island of both the university wide Excellence in Teaching Award (1987) and the Excellence in Research Award (1996) at the University of Rhode Island. Professor Ladas is a Editor-in-Chief (with Saber Elaydi) of this journal and an Associate Editor of 13 other mathematics journals. He is a referee for numerous journals, as well as a referee of mathematics research proposals for different research granting agencies. So far, he has edited the proceedings of eight different conferences.