Foreword

Foreword for the Proceedings of the International Congress in Honour of Professor Hari M. Srivastava. This article is being published in each of the four Special Issues of the SpringerOpen journals, Advances in Difference Equations, Boundary Value Problems, Fixed Point Theory and Applications and Journal of Inequalities and Applications, which are entitled ‘Proceedings of the International Congress in Honour of Professor Hari M. Srivastava’.


Foreword
It gives me immense pleasure to write the Foreword to this Special Dedication Issue containing essentially the duly-refereed Proceedings of the International Congress in my Honour which was held on - August  at the auditorium of the Görükle Campus of Uludağ University in Bursa (Turkey).
Our close professional association with Bursa dates back to August  when my wife and colleague (Prof. Dr. Rekha Srivastava) and I had the opportunity and privilege to visit the beautiful Görükle Campus of Uludağ University in Bursa. We were invited cordially by Prof. Dr. Ismail Naci Cangül, and our visit to Uludăg University in Bursa was organized in continuation of The Twentieth International Congress of the Jangjeon Mathematical Society (of which I am a Past President) held on - August  in Karinna Hotel at Mount Uludăg under the auspices of Uludağ University in Bursa. We found our participation in the aforementioned meticulously-organized International Congress in August  as well as our subsequent visit to Uludağ University to be not only immensely enjoyable, but also professionally fruitful, so much so that we gladly agreed eventually to the thoughtful proposal of Prof. Dr. Cangül to hold the International Dedication Congress celebrating my seventieth birth anniversary, too, in Karinna Hotel at Mount Uludăg on - August  under the auspices, of course, of Uludağ University in Bursa. The -page Proceedings of the August  International Congress was published in a Special Dedication Issue of the Elsevier journal: Applied Mathematics and Computation, Volume , Number , pp. - ().
Many other international conferences, professional meetings and special sessions held in several countries as well as special issues of many international scientific research journals were dedicated to my seventieth birth anniversary. One of these international dedication conferences (The International Conference on Mathematical Science Dedicated to my Seventieth Birth Anniversary) was held in Turkey itself on - November  at Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi in Bolu.
Not too much earlier, a week-long International Symposium on Analytic Function Theory, Fractional Calculus and Their Applications in Honour of my Sixty-Fifth Birth Anniver-©2013 Srivastava; licensee Springer. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
sary was held at the University of Victoria in Canada on - August . It was indeed attended by, among others, a large group of mathematical scientists of Turkish origin not only from Turkey, but also from elsewhere. The -page Proceedings of the August  International Symposium was published in a Special Dedication Issue of the Elsevier journal: Applied Mathematics and Computation, Volume , Number , pp. - ().
It is indeed very heartening to see that our friends and colleagues and research collaborators, especially Prof. Dr. İsmail Naci Cangül and Prof. Dr. Yilmaz Şimşek, organized yet another International Dedication Congress in my honour, for which I am exceedingly grateful to one and all of them.
The duly-refereed and duly-edited Proceedings of this International Dedication Congress as well as many other invited papers are being published in Special Issues of the following four SpringerOpen journals: Finally, on my own behalf as well as on behalf of the members of the Local Organization Committee and the International Advisory Board, I am exceedingly delighted to thank you all for your invaluable participation in this Special Dedication Issue.