John Hans Menkes (1928-2008)

John Forbes Nash Jr . ( 1928 – 2015 )

John Forbes Nash Jr. was born in Bluefield, West Virginia, on June 13, 1928 and was named after his father, who was an electrical engineer. His mother, Margaret Virginia (née Martin), was a school teacher before her marriage, teaching English and sometimes Latin. After attending the standard schools in Bluefield, Nash entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh (now Carnegie Mell...

Hans - Jürgen Sommers February 2 , 2008

We give a constructive proof for the superbosonization formula for invariant random matrix ensembles, which is the supersymmetry analog of the theory of Wishart matrices. Formulas are given for unitary, orthogonal and symplectic symmetry, but worked out explicitly only for the orthogonal case. The method promises to become a powerful tool for investigating the universality of spectral correlati...

Categoricity John Baldwin February 3 , 2008

Elementary Classes

Open Problems in Parameterized and Exact Computation — IWPEC 2008 Hans

2008 AAOMPT John McM. Mennell Service Award Acceptance Speech.