Wilfred Gordon Bigelow

Farewell Wilfred

It is with great sadness that we announce the untimely death of our friend and colleague, Wilfred Röling, on September 25th. Wilfred was a truly inspirational scholar active in a range of topics within environmental microbiology and microbial biotechnology, and was one of only a handful of researchers worldwide able to effectively combine wet and in silico science. The loss to scholarly endeavo...

Wilfred Leslie Sleight

Interview with Charles Bigelow

Interview of Charles Bigelow by Yue Wang, conducted in 2012. Y: In this interview we are very lucky to have Charles Bigelow with us. Professor Bigelow is a type historian, educator, and designer. With his design partner, Kris Holmes, he created the Lucida family of fonts used in the human-computer interfaces of Apple Macintosh OS X, Microsoft Windows, Bell Labs Plan 9, the Java Developer Kit, a...

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...

Gordon Fain

around the roots of plants, as Nicole van Dam and Harro Bouwmeester report in a review of this fi eld (Trends Plant Sci. (2016) DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.1016/j.tplants.2016.01.008). Direct investigation of signalling in the rhizosphere is currently focused on communication between plants and their microbial symbionts, as Vittorio Venturi and Christopher Keel report, although the scope could b...