Biographical Note: Lawrence B. Cohen

Pioneers in Neurophotonics: Special Section Honoring Professor Lawrence B. Cohen.

Extended Biographical Note

The color reduction in digital images is an active research area in digital image processing. In many applications such as image segmentation, analysis, compression and transmission, it is preferable to have images with a limited number of colors. In this paper, a color clustering technique which is a combination of a Kohonen Self Organized Featured Map (KSOFM) and a fuzzy clustering algorithm ...

Professor Mirosława Narkiewicz (1931–2017) – biographical note

Mirosława Narkiewicz (maiden name: Broda) was born on 19th September 1931 in Łuck (Volhynia region, today in the Ukraine). She started her education in 1938, and during the war continued it in clandestine classes. She lived in her family town until 1943, then moved to Mościce near Tarnów, and from July 1945 she lived in Sopot with her parents and two younger brothers: Henryk and Zbigniew. She c...

Futurescapes: Challenge for Social and Management Sciences Biographical Note

This paper is intended to contribute some background knowledge about the future in management and organisation studies. It provides historical information on the way the social sciences have engaged with the future and seeks to identify the difficulties with the subject of the future for scientific study. It suggests that futurity is an inescapable aspect of all social being and thus needs to b...

A Note on the Lawrence-Krammer-Bigelow Representation

A very popular problem on braid groups has recently been solved by Bigelow and Krammer, namely, they have found a faithful linear representation for the braid group Bn . In their papers, Bigelow and Krammer suggested that their representation is the monodromy representation of a certain fibration. Our goal in this paper is to understand this monodromy representation using standard tools from th...