Professor Alan Zuckerman, 1945-2009

Alan Armstrong II 2009

Title of Dissertation: DEMOCRACY AND STATE REPRESSION: WHAT WE DON’T KNOW, CAN KILL US David Alan Armstrong II, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Dissertation directed by: Professor Christian Davenport Department of Government and Politics There is an overwhelming amount of empirical evidence that democracy makes states more pacific toward their citizens. This robust finding has left scholars working ...

Professor Thorne Shipley—(1927–2009)

On March 14, 2009, the founding Editor of Vision Research, Professor Thorne Shipley, passed away from complications of an illness that he had been fighting for the past three years. During his almost 20-year tenure as its founding Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Shipley guided Vision Research from its fledgling beginnings (1960) to the preeminent journal of vision research. In addition, he published many ...

Brian Zuckerman

Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman, of Burnham Thorpe. O.M.,K.C.B. - 30 May 1904--1 April 1993.

Notes on the Knapp-Zuckerman theory

The point of these notes is to redefine some of their concepts in terms of the L-group. I observe, however, that it is best and indeed essential for further applications that their results be formulated for reductive groups rather than just for simply-connected semi-simple groups. I use the notation of CIRRAG (On the classification of irreducible representations of real algebraic groups) modifi...