Advances in Geometric Analysis and Continuum Mechanics: Proceedings of a Conference Held at Stanford University on August 2-5, 1993 in Honor of the Seventieth Birthday of Robert Finn

This volume documents the conference celebrating Professor Robert Finn's seventieth birthday. Herbert Beckert's introduction provides the reader with an overview of Finn's career, and highlights his essential contributions to the field of mathematics and its applications. He discusses Finn's work with Gilbarg, which gave him deep insight into the asympotic behavior of flows at infinity and led to accomplishments in the field of Navier-Stokes equation. Later, Finn and Conkus worked with NASA in their problem of fluid management in the absence of gravity. Work on the mathematical problem of capillarity was an important contribution for aeronautics, and provided fertile ground for further development in nonlinear analysis with applications to physics.