FROM THE DEPARTMENT HEAD
We are going through a very challenging period of change. Professors
John W. Eagon, Gebhard Fuhrken, Laurence Harper, Johannes Nitsche, Marian
Pour-El and Edgar Reich retired last June after long years of distinguished
service to the School and the profession. Professor Yasutaka Sibuya will
retire at the end of this academic year. Professors Bennett Chow and Paul
Edelman resigned their positions and moved to other schools. Other retirements
are coming. The challenge we face is to bring in top quality mathematicians
dedicated to teaching and research, to replace our losses and, whenever
possible, to enhance the overall quality of the School. My colleagues
recognize this challenge and they are working hard to meet it. I would
like to take this opportunity to thank the many friends and well wishers
of the School for giving us advice and good suggestions in these matters.
We can never forget that graduate and undergraduate teaching are major
components of our profession. Our faculty have been putting extraordinary
efforts into undergraduate, graduate and cross-disciplinarycurriculum
development, mentoring of the graduate and undergraduate students, research
and career training for graduate students, and as a result the improvements
in these programs and services have been substantial and very noticeable.
We look forward to the recognition dinner in honor of Professor Sibuya
on the occasion of his retirement and two forthcoming milestone conferences
to celebrate the 60th birthday of Professor Krylov and 75th birthday of
Professor Serrin. Such occasions remind us that we make our contributions
as a community of scholars and researchers, within a continuing tradition
of commitment to excellence.
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