The Applied Analysis Group, supported by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, are pleased to announce a one-day conference on Coagulation-Fragmentation Equations and Semigroups in honour of Dr Wilson Lamb who recently retired from the University of Strathclyde.
"Wilson Lamb's research career started with his PhD thesis, supervised by Adam McBride at the University of Strathclyde, which was entitled Fractional Powers of Operators on Fréchet Spaces with Applications. It extended known results based on spectral theory in Banach Spaces. This philosophy has underpinned much of his subsequent work which has been conducted within the setting of spaces of test functions and the corresponding spaces of generalised functions. Since fractional powers of an operator form a semigroup under composition, it was a natural progression to study semigroups of operators and evolution equations in Fréchet spaces. A particular focus for over 20 years has been provided by models for coagulation and fragmentation. The use of generalised functions has enabled rigorous mathematical analysis of such models, leading to results on existence and uniqueness of solutions of different types. Perturbation methods for semigroups of operators in Banach spaces have also played a prominent role. Wilson's work has attracted the interest of others working in the field, notably Jacek Banasiak and Philippe Laurençot with both of whom he is currently writing a monograph.
Wilson has 49 refereed research publications and one refereed book chapter. He has supervised 12 PhD students and one MPhil student. He has given presentations in many countries, notably in South Africa where he has been a member of the Associate Faculty of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences ( AIMS ) since 2012 and an Honorary Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban since 2013.
Wilson was a wonderful colleague at Strathclyde for 36 years. He was a superb teacher, hugely popular with students for his approachability and willingness to help. He performed many administrative roles, all of which were carried out in exemplary fashion. To many Wilson Lamb is an unsung hero. The present conference is fitting recognition of an outstanding career." Adam McBride, Prof. Emeritus, University of Strathclyde.