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results and their applications to support the budget request made by the US Department of Defense. A t the conclusion o f Plemmons' t e s t i mo n y . B i ll Yo u n g , chai r of th e Su b c omm i t t ee on N a t i o n a l Security, remarked, 'You have now answered m y main question, as to w h y the De p a r t me nt of Defense should be f und i ng research i n the mathematical sciences. 2 Prof. Raymon d Chan was awarded a Leslie Fox Prize on Numerical Analysis (1989) b y the I n s t i t u te of Ma t h ema t i c s a nd Applications, UK, and the Feng Kang Prize in Scientific Computing (1997) by the Chinese Academy of Sciences i n recognition of his contribution to fast algorithms for Toeplitz systems. His former Ph.D. student, Michael N g , w o r k i n g w i t h Prof. Chan and Prof . Plemmons on image restoration problems , was also awarded an Honorable Mention i n the Householder Prize Competitio n held i n Switzerland i n 1996. • Prof. Raymond H. Chan obtained his B.Sc. degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Courant Institute ofMathematical Sciences at New York University. He had taught at the University ofMassachusetts at Amherst, the University ofHong Kong, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology before joining his alma mater as a senior lecturer in 1993. He was the vice-president of the Hong Kong Mathematical Society from 1994 to 1996. Prof. Chan is an associate director of the University's Institute of Mathematical Sciences, a chief editor of the Asian Journal of Mathematics, and an editorial board member of four other journals. 2 See 'What Does the Government Get for Its investment in Basic Resarch', Societyof Industrial and Applied Mathematics(SIAM) News, June 1996. Chinese University Bulletin Spring • Summer 1998 32