Dear Editor, It was with great sadness that we learnt of the death of Prof Barrie Jones on 19 August 2009 in Tauranga, New Zealand, aged 88. He was admired worldwide for his work in developing the concept of prevention of blindness and for establishing the International Centre for Eye Health (publishers of the Community Eye Health Journal) in 1981. He was in fact responsible for encouraging the...

of Prof. Yau's lecture, Monday, April 2 [with additional references and remarks] (for people who missed the lecture) A geometric structure on a manifold is a cover by coordinate systems [a " sub-atlas " ] in which the transition functions from one coordinate system to another are not arbitrary mappings but rather belong to some specific set of mappings from (open subsets of) Euclidean space to ...

Almost all of his students were older than him! Through intellect and hard work, he made rapid academic progress, and was appointed as Professor of Psychology in 1988. While at Birkbeck, he was appointed the Ronald Tress Prize for advancements in his field, the first of many such awards. During his time in Birkbeck an equally important step in his life was made by meeting his wife Jane. Both of...

My research is primarily concerned with problems related to the theoretical aspects of the analysis and design of algorithms. Although I have studied many classical problems including those that can be found in standard textbook in algorithms (for example, string matching [16, 25, 34, 35], k-connectivity problems in graphs [9, 18, 20], and the problem of finding an optimum order of multiplying ...

My research is primarily concerned with problems related to the theoretical aspects of the analysis and design of algorithms. Although I have studied many classical problems including those that can be found in standard textbook in algorithms (for example, string matching [16, 25, 34, 35], k-connectivity problems in graphs [9, 18, 20], and the problem of finding an optimum order of multiplying ...

It is with a mix of great sadness, respect, and gratitude that we reflect on the passing Prof. Jeffrey E. Froyd in October 2022. We would like to first recall Jeff’s many accomplishments for those who may not hav...

During the 2013 International Liver Congress in Amsterdam, EASL recognized the career and achievements of Professor Jesus Prieto. Hepatologists from all over the world celebrated the liver scholar, scientist, mentor, academic leader, physician and, for many of us, the friend. We recognize somebody because they have given testimony: Prof. Jesus Prieto showed us how to enjoy the richness of acade...