In celebration of K.C. Hines

Contents; Preface; 1. Concerning Ken Hines . . .; 1.1. Obituary published in the 'Age' newspaper; 1.2. Curriculum vitae: Kenneth Charles Hines; 1.3. Some short stories about Ken; 1.3.1. Roger Hosking reminisces; 1.3.2. Ken Amos reminisces; 1.3.3. Vic Kowalenko reminisces; 1.3.4. Zwi Barnea reminisces; 1.3.5. "Legend's" Thursday lunch club award number four; 1.3.6. Graeme Lister reminisces; 1.3.7. Bob Dewar reminisces; 1.3.8. Norm Frankel reminisces; 2. Structures of Exotic Nuclei from Nucleon-Nucleus Scattering Data Ken Amos; 2.1. Introduction

2.2. MCAS and nucleon-nucleus systems at low and negative energies2.3. g-folding optical potentials and the DWA; 2.4. Studies of the isotopes of Carbon using nucleon-Carbon interactions; 2.4.1. Using MCAS and the spectra of odd-mass isotopes; 2.4.2. Using g-folding optical potentials; 2.5. MCAS and hypernuclei; 2.6. Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; 3. Resonant X-Ray Scattering and X-Ray Absorption: Closing the Circle? Zwi Barnea, Chris T. Chantler, Martin D. de Jonge, Andrew W. Stevenson and Chanh Q. Tran; 3.1. Bragg intensity measurements from extended-face crystals

3.2. Bijvoet ratios3.3. X-ray mass attenuation measurements; 3.4. Attenuation measurements in the vicinity of the absorption edge; 3.5. A combined experiment; Acknowledgments; References; 4. The Screened Field of a Test Particle Robert L. Dewar; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. The formal solution; 4.3. Analytical approximations; 4.3.1. Small v0; 4.3.2. Intermediate velocity (v2 i )1/2 v0 Cs (forward field); 4.3.4. Intermediate velocity (v2 i )1/2 Cs (wake field); 4.4. Numerical solution

4.4.1. Formulation of the numerical method4.4.2. Small v0 results; 4.4.3. Intermediate v0 results; 4.4.4. Supersonic case; 4.4.5. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; 5. Self-Avoiding Walks as a Canonical Model of Phase Transitions A. J. Guttmann; 5.1. Introduction; 5.1.1. The collapse transition; 5.1.2. The adsorption transition; 5.2. Biological models: SAW as models of DNA; 5.2.1. The DNA denaturation transition; 5.2.2. Vesicle collapse; 5.2.3. Macromolecular desorption from a surface; 5.3. Self-avoiding walks crossing a square; 5.3.1. Bounds on the growth constant λ

5.3.1.1. Upper bounds on λ5.3.1.2. Lower bounds on λ; 5.3.2. Results; 5.3.3. Numerical analysis; 5.4. Discussion; Acknowledgments; References; 6. Aspects of Plasma Physics Roger J. Hosking; 6.1. Preamble; 6.2. Introduction; 6.3. Boltzmann equation; 6.4. Moment equations; 6.5. Macroscopic equations; 6.6. Plasma pressure tensor; Appendix A. Derivation of Eq. (6.13); References; 7. Further Properties of a Magnetised Maxwellian Plasma Victor Kowalenko; 7.1. Introduction; 7.2. Screening potential of a test-particle; 7.3. Relativistic charged boson pair plasma; 7.4. Static screening potential