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Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton University, will give the Departmental Colloquium on February 19, at 4pm in Eck 206. The title: "On the dynamical formation of Black Holes".
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Richard K. Lashof, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics died on February 4,
2010. Below please find an obituary note from Melvin G. Rothenberg,
Professor Emeritus of Mathematics:
In Memoriam-Dick Lashof †Feb 4, 2010
Dick Lashof died today in his home Alameda California
Richard Lashof received his PH.D in mathematics from Columbia University in 1954. Over the next 40 years he made fundamental contributions in geometric and differential topology and was an important force in transforming this area into a center of mathematical progress in the second half of the twentieth century.
He joined the mathematics faculty at the University of Chicago in the fall of 1954, where he remained over thirty years. He served as chairman from 1967-70. He was the key figure in sustaining the Chicago Mathematics Department as an international center for research and the training of topologists, many dozens of whom were to go on pursue successful research careers at other leading universities.
Lashof was also an outstanding and inspiring teacher and collaborator. He had many outstanding Ph. D students. Early in his career he collaborated with some of the greatest mathematicians of the latter half of the twentieth century, specifically S.S. Chern and Stephan Smale. Subsequently he had long and fruitful collaborations with a number of other topologists. He certainly was my major mathematical influence, and the most exciting and fruitful period of my mathematics research were the years we spent working together.
Mel Rothenberg
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