In memoriam : Bernard Cottret (1951-2020)

Zoltán Ésik (1951 - 2016) - In Memoriam

Our friend and colleague Zoltán Ésik passed away in Reykjavik, Iceland, on Wednesday, 25 May 2016. He was visiting us as he did with some regularity, compatibly with his many engagements throughout the world. The day before his untimely death, Zoltán had delivered an ICE-TCS seminar entitled Equational Logic of Fixed Point Operations at Reykjavik University. At the start of his talk, he looked ...

In memoriam - Bernard Becker (1920-2013).

In memoriam: Konjev Desender (1956–2008) and Jean-Pierre Maelfait (1951–2009)

It is about a year ago that Belgian biology lost, in quick sequence, two distinguished and internationally known representatives: Konjev Desender and Jean-Pierre Maelfait. Before contemplating this sad loss, allow me to mention some facts, even if they are well known in these circles. Konjev Desender was born in 1956, and graduated in 1978 from the University of Ghent. In 1987, he received his ...

In Memoriam-Professor Ajit K.Padhy

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Memoriam.

George W. Housner, Carl F Braun Professor of Engineering, emeritus, died after a short illness on 10 November 2008, just a few weeks before his 98th birthday. He was in the retirement home in Pasadena where he had lived for several years. For all of us who knew George, this marked the end of an era. Few people have guided and nurtured a field the way George led earthquake engineering over a per...