The Wesleyan Biology Department conference room showcases several portraits of distinguished biologists from its history, including one depicting Herbert W. Conn (1859–1917) as a dashing young man sporting a double-breasted suit, pince-nez, and a perfect Van Dyke beard. Conn made outstanding contributions to both microbiology and evolutionary biology, showing how bacteria share fundamental prop...

Recently one of the writers (Conn, 1938) proposed the name Rhizobiaceae for a family containing the genera Rhizobium, Alcaligenes, and Chromobacterium, together with certain species commonly placed today in the genus Phytomona8. This suggestion has been followed in the 5th edition of Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology. Inasmuch as the writer's paper above mentioned was published only...

La r ealisation de syst emes d'inf erences multi-agents a et e etudi ee de nom-breuses fois sous dii erents aspects, chacun avec ses inconv enients. La plupart du temps, les r ealisations de ces syst emes ont et e eeectu ees dans des langages imp eratifs classiques, qui fournissent un code long, et peu souple. Dans ce papier nous proposons une archichec-ture multi-agents hi erarchique dans laqu...

We give a pattern search method for nonlinearly constrained optimization that is an adaption of a bound constrained augmented Lagrangian method first proposed by Conn, Gould, and Toint [SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 28 (1991), pp. 545–572]. In the pattern search adaptation, we solve the bound constrained subproblem approximately using a pattern search method. The stopping criterion proposed by Conn, Go...

With the sudden passing of P. Michael Conn, the Endocrine Society lost one of the hardestworking scientists we have known. Michael was born in Oil City, Pennsylvania, received his BS from the University of Michigan, his MS from North Carolina State University, and his PhD from Baylor College of Medicine (working in Bert O’Malley’s laboratory). Following a postdoctoral fellowship in the Dufau-Ca...