Gerald Beer, PhD UCLA 1971 won the faculty prize for teaching assistants at UCLA. He was a full professor at California State University Los Angeles, where he won the Presidents Distinguished Professor Award. He has around 140 papers in refereed journals plus two books: (1) Applied Calculus for Business and Economics; (2) Topologies on Closed and Closed Convex Sets. He is on the editorial boards of The Journal of Convex Analysis and Set-Valued and Variational Analysis. In 1983-1984, he was a Fulbright Professor associated with the Mathematical Consortium of Manila, and in 1986, he was a National Academy of Sciences exchange scholar at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He had visiting positions at the University of California, Davis, University of Minnesota, University of Milan, University of Salerno, University of Naples II, University of Limoges, University of Montpellier II, University of Perpignan, University of Complutense Madrid, Politecnica Valencia, UMH Elche, and Auckland Institute of Technology. A conference honoring Professor Beer was held in Varenna, Lake Como, Italy on his 65th birthday.
