Analytic Methods for Coagulation-Fragmentation Models, Volume I

Jacek Banasiak is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, where he holds DST/NRF Research Chair in Mathematical Models and Methods in Biosciences and Bioengineering, and at Lódz University of Technology, Poland. His main research areas are functional analytic methods in kinetic theory and mathematical biology, singular perturbations, general applied analysis and partial differential equations and evolution problems. He is the author/co-author of 5 monographs and over 120 papers in these fields. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Afrika Matematika (Springer). In 2012 received the South African Mathematical Society Award for Research Distinction and in 2013 he was awarded the Cross of Merit (Silver) of the Republic of Poland.Wilson Lamb is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, having retired recently from his position there as a Senior Lecturer in Mathematics. He is also a Member of the Associate Faculty of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences. His main research interests lie in Applicable Functional Analysis, Evolution Equations and the Mathematical Analysis of Coagulation and Fragmentation Processes. He has published over 45 refereed research publications, and has given lecture courses at all levels to undergraduate and postgraduate students. These include courses on differential equations, functional analysis, dynamical systems and mathematical biology. He was nominated for the University of Strathclyde Students' Association Teaching Excellence Awards in 2012, 2013 and 2014; in 2013, he was shortlisted for the category of Best in Science Faculty.Philippe Laurençot is Directeur de Recherche (senior researcher) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and is affiliated with the Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, France. His main research interests include the mathematical analysis of evolution partial differential equations, dynamical system approach to evolution partial differential equations, coagulation equations and mathematical models in biology. He is the author of over 170 scientific publications and has given invited talks all over the world.