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This International Conference on Clifford AlgebrfU and Their
Application, in Math ematical Phy,ic, is the third in a series of
conferences on this theme, which started at the Univer,ity of Kent
in Canterbury in 1985 and was continued at the Univer,iU de,
Science, et Technique, du Languedoc in Montpellier in 1989. Since
the start of this series of Conferences the research fields under
consideration have evolved quite a lot. The number of scientific
papers on Clifford Algebra, Clifford Analysis and their impact on
the modelling of physics phenomena have increased tremendously and
several new books on these topics were published. We were very
pleased to see old friends back and to wellcome new guests who by
their inspiring talks contributed fundamentally to tracing new
paths for the future development of this research area. The
Conference was organized in Deinze, a small rural town in the
vicinity of the University town Gent. It was hosted by De Ceder, a
vacation and seminar center in a green area, a typical landscape of
Flanders's "plat pays" . The Conference was attended by 61
participants coming from 18 countries; there were 10 main talks on
invitation, 37 contributions accepted by the Organizing Com mittee
and a poster session. There was also a book display of Kluwer
Academic Publishers. As in the Proceedings of the Canterbury and
Montpellier conferences we have grouped the papers accordingly to
the themes they are related to: Clifford Algebra, Clifford
Analysis, Classical Mechanics, Mathematical Physics and Physics
Models.
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of the raison d'etre of this series."
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