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During the Foundations of Future Communication Systems (FFCS) conference in Braunschweig, a dedicated memorial session was held in honor of Dr. Vladimir (Volodya) Sidorenko (1949-2025). The session, chaired by Minglai Cai, brought together…
This paper gives an overview of Fred Cohen's work and is a summary of the talk which I gave during his 60th birthday conference, held at the University of Tokyo in July 2005.
This is a short memoriam celebrating the life and work of the general relativist Joshua N. Goldberg, who passed away in October, 2020.
This Special Issue of Biomolecules, commissioned in honor of Dr. Philip E. Bourne, focuses on a new field of biomolecular data science. In this brief retrospective, we consider the arc of Bourne's 40-year scientific and professional career,…
Steven Weinberg, renowned particle theorist and Nobel laureate, passed away in July 2021. We discuss selections of his work on effective field theory, electroweak unification, and symmetry related topics. We then add a few memories of…
This article summarizes some of the most important scientific contributions of Murray Gell-Mann (1929-2019). (Invited article for Current Science, Indian Academy of Sciences.)
Steven Weinberg productive scientific life teaches us many things, one of the most important of which is the power of his example. This essay contains personal reminiscences and a speculation about gravitational wave propagation based on…
These brief remarks have been prepared in connection with a conference in honor of my thesis advisor, Richard Rochberg.
The life of Isaak Yakovlevich Pomeranchuk was short (20.05.1913 -- 14.12.1966). But the impact of his personality and his works on physics and physicists is remarkable. The talk describes the biography of I.Ya. Pomeranchuk, his major…
Homage is paid to E. Majorana by dedicating our recent work in his memory.
We give some personal reflections on the person and scientist Lars Brink and on some of his scientific achievements. Our relations to Lars are briefly described in [1] and [2], while the sources relevant for this text are summarised in [3].
This year is the 100th birth anniversary of Richard Philips Feynman. This article commemorates his scientific contributions and lasting legacy.
We survey the legacy of L.G. Kov\'acs in linear group theory, with a particular focus on classification questions.
The present study puts forward a novel biographical knowledge graph (KG) on Prof. S. R. Ranganathan, one of the pioneering figures in the Library and Information Science (LIS) domain. It has been found that most of the relevant facts about…
a 10-page biography of Raoul Bott followed by a 25-page discussion of his major papers
It is with heavy hearts that we mourn the passing of Ning Cai, a luminary whose pioneering spirit illuminated the realms of network coding and beyond. On May 25, 2023, at the age of 75, Prof. Cai bid farewell, leaving behind a profound…
This article is dedicated to the 80th birthday of the outstanding Georgian and Soviet nuclear physicist Professor R. I. Jibuti (1934-1992).
Jonathan M. Borwein (1951-2016) was a prolific mathematician whose career spanned several countries (UK, Canada, USA, Australia) and whose many interests included analysis, optimisation, number theory, special functions, experimental…
The work of L. G. (Laci) Kov\'acs (1936--2013) gave us a deeper understanding of permutation groups, especially in the O'Nan--Scott theory of primitive groups. We review his contribution to this field.
Review/essay of Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann.