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This year is 50 anniversary of the first experimental observation of ultracold neutrons (UCN). I present my reminiscences of the first experiment in Dubna, first encounter with F.L. Shapiro -- pioneer of the UCN investigations, and the…
Professor M. C. Polivanov and I met only a few times, during my infrequent visits to the-then Soviet Union in the 1970's and 1980's. His hospitality at the Moscow Steclov Institute made the trips a pleasure, while the scientific environment…
These are largely expanded notes from lectures on Higgs moduli and abelianisation given in Angers, France (2014) and Guaruja, Brazil (2015). Dedicated to Ugo Bruzzo on his 60-th birthday. Version 2: minor corrections.
Biographical essay at the occasion of the first death anniversary of Manfred Bonitz
This part of the talk aims to present briefly the biodata and the exceptional career of Paco Yndurain who left us suddenly in June 2008. The scientific part: Light Scalar Mesons in QCD is published in the proceedings of QCD 08 (Montpellier…
With this contribution we would like to remember Chandra M. R. Kintala who passed away in November 2009. We will give short overviews of his CV and his contributions to the field of theoretical and applied computer science and, given the…
Joel Scherk (1946--1980) was an important early contributor to the development of string theory. Together with various collaborators, he made numerous profound and influential contributions to the subject throughout the decade of the 1970s.…
We present mini-proceedings of the international workshop on "Chiral Forces in Low Energy Nuclear Physics - the LENPIC Meeting" held at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland from February 10 to 11, 2017. The workshop focused on the…
Some erroneous and misleading statements in an article by J. Bernstein on Heisenberg's visit to Cracow during the war are corrected.
Theoretical physics suffered a major loss with the death of my dear friend Jan Zaanen on January 18. This note is my remembrance of him.
On January 13th 2020, the inaugural Photonics Online Meetup (POM) brought together more than 1100 researchers to discuss the latest advances in photonics. Or rather, it didn't, because the meeting was completely delocalized with the…
This paper is dedicated to Professor Endre Csakion the occasion of his 65th birthday.
This contribution contains a summary of the Krakow meeting on Soft Physics and Fluctuations. It emphasizes both the experimental and the theoretical investigations on correlations/fluctuations and intermittency in multi-particle processes…
I present some memories of my Ph.D supervisor and, later, collaborator but always encouraging supporter Prof. G. Lazarides. Some of his contributions to our common and related scientific activities on the phenomenology of MSSM and inflation…
Lecture given at the International Meeting ``Boltzmann's Legacy - 150 Years after his Birth'', organized by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 25 - 28 May 1994, in Rome, to be published in: ``Atti dell"Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei'',…
This is a slightly edited translation of a paper in Dutch which appeared in Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde (5) 25 (2024), No.2, 87-90 on the occasion of I.G. Macdonald's death in 2023, and aimed at a very broad mathematical audience. First we…
James Philip Elliott, one of the towering figures of nuclear physics of the second half of the twentieth century, died on the 21st of October 2008. Obituaries appeared in the British press but relatively little attention was paid by the…
This paper, based in part on joint work with Stanis{\l}aw Domoradzki, concerns Lucjan Emil B\"ottcher (1872-1937)-- a little-known Polish mathematician active in Lw\'ow. I outline B\"ottcher's scholarly path, focusing on his studies in…
We discuss the scientific contributions of Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, his opinions and his legacy.
From 28 to 30 January 1933 was held at the Institut Henri Poincar\'{e} (Paris) the first International Conference of Nonlinear Oscillations organized at the initiative of the Dutch physicist Balthazar Van der Pol and of the Russian…