This volume on pure and applied differential geometry, includes topics on submanifold theory, affine differential geometry and applications of geometry in engineering sciences. The conference was dedicated to the 70th birthday of Prof Katsumi Nomizu. Papers on the scientific work and life of Katsumi Nomizu are also included.
Reflections on some differential geometric work of Katsumi Nomizu, P. Dombrowski; the influence of Katsumi Nomizu on affine differential geometry, U. Simon; opportunities and indebtedness, K. Nomizu; almost symplectic and almost complex structures, T. Willmore; on the metric structure of non-negatively curved manifolds, G. Walschap; from differential geometry through arrangements of hyper-planes to matrices over Z2 and back, A. West; oscillator and pendulum equation on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds, and conformal vector fields, W. Kuhnel and H.-B. Rademacher; pseudo Riemannian metrics with signature type change, M. Kriele and M. Kossowski; some obstructions to slant immersions, B.-Y. Chen; on harmonic 2-spheres in S4, J. Bolton and L.M. Woodward.