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BULLETIN Number 62 Winter 2008

ISSN 0791-5578

Contents

Editorial

Notices from the Society

• Officers and Local Representatives 1
• Applying for IMS Membership 2
• President's Report 2008 5
• Minutes of Annual General Meeting, 2 September 2008 9

The 21st Annual September Meeting

• Programme 9
• Abstracts of Talks 11

Announcements of Conferences 21

Abstracts of PhD Theses 23
(Derek Kitson; John Loane; Domhnaill O'Brien)

Departmental News 29

Research Notes

• Finbarr Holland:
  Optimisation Problems for the Determinant of a Sum of $3\times 3$ Matrices, 31 [Article]
• David Lewis and Thomas Unger:
  Hermitian Morita Theory: a Matrix Approach, 37 [Article]

Survey Articles

• Karim Boulabiar:
  Recent Trends on Order Bounded Disjointness Preserving Operators, 43

Miscellenea

• Diarmuid O'Driscoll, Donald E. Ramirez and Rebecca Schmitz:
  Minimizing Oblique Errors for Robust Estimating, 71