摘要
A special session on Numerical Analysis,in honor of Professor Graeme Fairweather’s 70th birthday This special issue of Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics consists of a se-lection of invited and contributed papers that were presented in a Special Session of the 8th International Conference on Scientific Computing and Applications that was held at the University of Nevada,Las Vegas,from April 1 to 4,2012.The Special Session was organized in order to celebrate the 70th birthday of Professor Graeme Fairweather.