October 17, 2011
On September 13, 2011 Erik G.F. Thomas passed away. He was 72 years old.
He was professor emeritus in mathematics at the University of Groningen.
His research was in analysis, in particular functional analysis and measure
and integration, including analysis on Lie groups and the study of
path integrals. MathSciNet lists 46 published papers by him.
Erik Thomas obtained his PhD in 1969 at Université Paris-Sud XI Orsay.
His PhD advisor was Laurent Schwartz.
Read an in memoriam.
On July 22, 2008 Anatoly Klimyk passed away. He was 69 years old.
From 1989 to April 2008
he was the Head of Department of Mathematical Methods in Theoretical
Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, National Academy of
Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev.
Anatoly Klimyk was in particular well-known by his work on group theoretic
methods for special functions. Notably, he wrote together with N. Ja. Vilenkin
a four-volume monograph
Representations of Lie groups and special functions
which appeared at Kluwer, 1991-1995.
See here the formula on the stamp, if it is produced by the
latex code given here.
During a period of 20 years Herman van Rossum was director of
the Institute for Propaedeutical Mathematics at the
University of Amsterdam. This institute, emphasizing good teaching of
basic mathematics to students in other sciences, was founded by him.
Later the institute changed its name into
Institute for Interdisciplinary Mathematics.
Vadim B. Kuznetsov (University of Leeds, UK) died suddenly and
unexpectedly on 16 December 2005. He was an expert in the field of
Integrable Systems. MathSciNet lists 45 publications of his, over the
period 1987-2004. Among these there are 13 which have Primary/Secondary
MSC number 33. He became best known in special functions by a series of
papers together with E.K. Sklyanin on application of the technique of
separation of variables in quantum integrable systems in order to obtain
an integral transform mapping n-variable Macdonald (or Jack) polynomials
to a product of n one-variable functions, and vice versa.
Vadim Kuznetsov studied and graduated in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). In 1993 he came to Amsterdam for a two-year postdoc position with me. After further postdoc positions in Denmark and Canada he settled in Leeds, first in temporary positions obtained by successful grant applications, and eventually in a tenured position as a Reader in Applied Analysis.
Vadim was always very kind and enthusiastic. He had 21 coauthors. He was
very active in organizing meetings, of which two Proceedings edited by him
have appeared. A third volume, the
Proceedings of the Workshop on Jack,
Hall-Littlewood and Macdonald polynomials (Edinburgh, 23-26 September
2003), coedited with Siddharta Sahi, has appeared in 2006 in the AMS
series Contemporary Mathematics.
Vadim is survived by his wife, Olga, and son, Simon.
See a
short obituary provided by the University of Leeds.
There is a
picture of Vadim lecturing during the Workshop on Special
Functions, Representation Theory and Applications, Amsterdam, 25-27 August
2003.
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