The Asian Mathematical Conference (AMC) series is a major South East Mathematical Society (SEAMS) conference, held every 4–5 years since 1990, and hosted by countries in Asia. The Asian Mathematical Conference (AMC) 2016 was held in Bali, Indonesia during July 25–29, 2016, hosted by the Indonesian Mathematical Society (IndoMS) and South East Asian Mathematical Society (SEAMS). The journal is happy to join hands in this endeavour to encourage greater co-operation between Asian mathematicians. As part of proceedings of this meeting, here we have eight articles presented in the conference. We thank all the organisers of the conference, and in particular, Prof. Intan Muchtadi of Institut Teknologi Bandung for making this feasible. I also wish to thank all the members of the Editorial Board of the Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Math. Sci.), and our referees for timely evaluation of the papers.

Additionally in this issue we have a survey article: “Introduction to Compact (Matrix) Quantum Groups and Banica–Speicher (Easy) Quantum Groups”, by Prof. Moritz Weber. We think that this article is very timely and would be very useful for researchers in this emerging area.

B. V. Rajarama Bhat

Chief Editor

Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Math. Sci.)