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The Research Group in
Mathematical Inequalities and Applications (RGMIA)
was founded in September 1998 and is based at Victoria University.
The group is lead by N. S. Barnett, P. Cerone, S.S.
Dragomir (Chair) and A. Sofo and now boasts over 1200 members worldwide.
Within
months of its initiation, the
RGMIA
began its own electronic technical reports series,
'RGMIA
Research Report Collection' (RRC),
see reports.asp)
. As a result, the latest research in inequalities and their applications is
made readily available to members in a timely fashion. Selected
contributions in printed version of this are sent to Mathematics Departments
of several Australian and New Zealand Universities and exchanged with over
80
international journals in Mathematics and Applications (see
exchange.asp). As a result, the
School of Computer Sciences & Mathematics now harbours an extensive journal
collection that is unique in the country and used by researchers in the
field from other Melbournian Universities.
After one year of fruitful experience with RGMIA
and its
RRC which is recognised by, and present in many international
databases on the internet, we started an international, peer refereed
electronic journal, "Journal of Inequalities in Pure and Applied
Mathematics"
(JIPAM )(see
http://jipam.vu.edu.au). This journal aims to foster and
develop further growth in all areas of mathematics relating to inequalities.
The journal accepts high quality papers containing original research
results, survey articles of exceptional merit, short letters and notes. The
journal recognizes the need for papers to be published in a timely fashion
and, therefore, papers are refereed by experts in the filed within 100
working days of submission.
The editorial board (see
http://jipam.vu.edu.au/editors.php) is comprised of
76
internationally recognized researchers - many of whom are world leaders in
their own fields.
JIPAM
is reviewed by the Mathematical Reviews of the American Mathematical Society
(see
http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/) and by the corresponding
European publication and database Zentralblatt MATH (see
http://www.zentralblatt-math.org/zmath/en/). It is
mirrored on the European Mathematical Information Service (see
http://www.emis.de/journals/) and covered by Scopus (see
http://info.scopus.com/detail/what/), which is the largest
abstract and citation database in the world.
RGMIA
research work has been acknowledged in the History book on Australian
Mathematics authored by Professor G. Cohen,
"Counting Australia in, the People,
Organisations and Institutions of Australian Mathematics",
Halsted Press, Sydney, 2007 (see p. 306, where the picture of the group at
the launch of JIPAM in November 2000, "The Australian", is reproduced). The
research contribution of the group in Mathematical Analysis is also
recognized in the document "Mathematics
& Statistics: Critical Skills for Australia's Future, the National Strategic Review of Mathematical Sciences research in
Australia", conducted by a working party appointed by the
National Committee for the Australian Academy of Science (see page 46,
http://www.review.ms.unimelb.edu.au/FullReport2006.pdf). |
