Michael O’Neill, 1953-2018

Michael D. West (1953- )

Michael D. West is a biomedical entrepreneur and investigator whose aim has been to extend human longevity with biomedical interventions. His focus has ranged from the development of telomerase-based therapeutics to the application of human embryonic stem cells [5] in regenerative medicine [6]. Throughout his eventful career, West has pursued novel and sometimes provocative ideas in a fervent, ...

Michael S. Neuberger 1953-2013.

Michael Neuberger’s untimely death on October 26 last year was a shock for his friends and the scientific community. The many obituaries written about him by friends and colleagues testify to his unique, overarching stature as a scientist, colleague, and human companion. I am writing this retrospective mourning a personal friend and irreplaceable loss. Michael’s father, Albert Neuberger, came f...

Michael Gutmann Edited and expanded by Arno Onken Spring Semester 2018

CombinaTexas 2018 February 10 – 11 , 2018

In this talk we give combinatorial proofs of q-Stirling identities using restricted growth words. This includes a poset theoretic proof of Carlitz’s identity, a new proof of the q-Frobenius identity of Garsia and Remmel and of Ehrenborg’s Hankel q-Stirling determinantal identity. We also develop a two parameter generalization to unify identities of Mercier and include a symmetric function versi...

Tim Bartness (1953-2015).

TIM BARTNESS died on September 24, 2015 at his home in Atlanta after a year-long battle with multiple myeloma. He was 62 years old. Tim was a superbly innovative and imaginative scientist. Over the course of his distinguished career he applied a broad understanding of metabolic physiology, behavior analysis, and systems neuroscience to two main research areas: the integrated sensorimotor contro...