Report on the Scientific International Relations of the Research Group of E. Meister

Abstract

The first international contacts developed through common scientific interests in mathematical problems of flows through staggered cascades which form part of the subject area of E. Meister’s PhD dissertation (1958) and habilitation (1963) in Saarbrücken. The methods involved, like conformal mapping, Riemann boundary value problems, singular integral equations and the Wiener-Hopf technique, were intensively used at that time at the Technical University of Prague, the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and at the Institute of the Georgian Academy of Sciences in Tbilisi. The first contacts were established in 1963 with Professor D.C. Pack, Glasgow, and in 1964 with Professor J. Polacek, Prague, during their visits to the conferences of the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik and Mechanik (GAMM).