Владимир Иванович Правда (1935-2018)

CombinaTexas 2018 February 10 – 11 , 2018

In this talk we give combinatorial proofs of q-Stirling identities using restricted growth words. This includes a poset theoretic proof of Carlitz’s identity, a new proof of the q-Frobenius identity of Garsia and Remmel and of Ehrenborg’s Hankel q-Stirling determinantal identity. We also develop a two parameter generalization to unify identities of Mercier and include a symmetric function versi...

Prognosis. Volume I. 1935

Roger Needham, 1935-2003

Cambridge Research Lab, which he founded in 1997. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was associated with Cambridge University for nearly half a century—as an undergraduate and graduate student, as a researcher, and eventually as a professor and head of the Computer Laboratory. In this EIC message, I focus on the significance of Needham's research contributions to pervasive computing. These contribu...

Alan Cowey (1935–2012)

Alan's work was necessarily interdisciplinary because he saw no way of understanding anatomy, physiology or behaviour without understanding all of them. Hence his work on visual plasticity and development incorporated retinal and collicular anatomy, lesion studies and neuropsychological work with patients. This led him to take up the discovery of blindsight by Larry Weiskrantz, his graduate sup...

Platonism in mathematics ( 1935 )

With your permission, I shall now address you on the subject of the present situation in research in the foundations of mathematics. Since there remain open questions in this field, I am not in a position to paint a definitive picture of it for you. But it must be pointed out that the situation is not so critical as one could think from listening to those who speak of a foundational crisis. Fro...