Professor Philip G. Burke, CBE, FRS formally retired on 30 September
1998. To recognise this occasion some of his colleagues, friends, and former
students decided to hold a conference in his honour and to present this
volume as a dedication to his enormous contribution to the theoretical
atomic physics community. The conference and this volume of the invited
talks reflect very closely those areas with which he has mostly been associated
and his influence internationally on the development of atomic physics
coupled with a parallel growth in supercomputing.