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physical and engineering sciences. The emphasis is on high-quality,
original, fundamental articles of interest to a wide range of scientists,
in emerging and interdisciplinary areas as well as established disci-
plines.
M. V. Berry, Editor, HH Wills Physics
Laboratory, University of Bristol
S. Bandyopadhyay, Department
of Electrical Engineering, Virginia
Commonwealth University
L. Botten, Department of Mathematical
Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney
O. Bruno, Applied and Computational
Mathematics, CALTECH
S. Carlip, Department of Physics,
University of California, Davis
C. G. Caro, Department of Bioengineering,
Imperial College London
C. R. A. Catlow, Department of Chemistry,
University College London
M. Chai, Department of Chemistry,
Central Michigan University
W. Craig, Department of Mathematics and
Statistics, McMaster University
D. Deutsch, Centre for Quantum
Computation, University of Oxford
R. J. Donnelly, Department of Physics,
University of Oregon
A. S. Fokas, DAMPT, University of
Cambridge
M. S. Freund, Department of Chemistry,
University of Manitoba
E. Gelenbe, Department of Electrical and
Electronic Engineering, Imperial College
London
M. J. Gillan, Department of Physics
and Astronomy, University College London
A. L. Greer, Department of Materials Science
& Metallurgy, University of Cambridge
A. Hirsa, Department of Mechanical,
Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
L. P. Hughston, Department
of Mathematics, Imperial College London
J. Hutchinson, Division of Engineering
and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
S. Iijima, AIST/Research Center for
Advanced Carbon Materials, NEC
Laboratories
V. S. Isham, Department