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Dear Colleagues:
With heavy heart and great grief, I am reporting to you the death of our President Professor Bernd Aulbach last Friday, January 14, 2005, from a heart attack.
I mourn with you a great friend, a great mathematician, and a great leader. Our condolences go to his family, friends, colleagues, and students.
His legacy and memory will stay with us as long as we live.
Sincerely,
Saber Elaydi, Vice-President, ISDE
Dear Colleagues,
We knew about the sad news that unfortunately Professor Bernd Aulbach has left us.
We extend our sincere condolences to the ICDEA family and the great quantity of mathematicians who received help and inspiration from his interesting works, to his former and current students, to his collaborators, in general to everyone who received from this master a great legacy and challenge which encourage to develop their skills.
Sincerely,
Manuel Pinto (pintoj@uchile.cl) & Samuel Castillo (scastill@ubiobio.cl)
"You have fight a good fight of faith (Is it possible to research in math without faith?), lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses" (Inspired in the Biblical text 1st Timothy 6:12 and adapted by M. Pinto).
Dear colleagues,
it is indeed a sad event the death of our president and colleague Professor Bernd Aulbach.
I would like to express my sincere condolences to his family and also propose to the Scientific Comittee of the "ICDEA 10" conference to be held in Munich, to dedicate this conference to the memory of Bernd Aulbach.
Sincerely,
Panayiotis D. Siafarikas, Member of Board of Directors, ISDE
Dear Professor Elaydi,
Dear Professor Ladas,
It was with deep sorrow that we learned of the death of our colleague Professor Aulbach. He was a great mathematician and a great organizer in the Science, and of course, a very nice man.
It is desirable that one of the nearest issue of the Journal of Difference Equations and Applications will be dedicated to Professor Aulbach.
Sincerely,
A.N. Sharkovsky
V.V. Fedorenko
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to inform you that the burial of Professor Bernd Aulbach took place on 17th January 2005 close to Augsburg.
As an organizer of the upcoming conference in Munich, I participated in the requiem and the last ceremony for Bernd Aulbach. His burial was held in great dignity.
I promise that I will do my very best to fill Bernd Aulbach's vision of a successful Munich meeting with life.
Yours sincerely
Andreas Ruffing
To say it is sad that he departed, that we feel shocked, disoriented, dazzled, sorrowful, ... all this is not enough and will never be. He was a friend to many, he was my friend and now he is gone. Farewell Bernd. I will miss you.
Julio Lopez Fenner
Dear Colleagues
I am deeply saddened and shocked by the news on the sudden death of Professor Bernd Aulbach. I would like to join you, members of the International Society of the Difference Equations, to extend our sincere condolences to his family. Bernd passed away. We lost a great friend, great mathematician.
Sincerely,
Nguyen Van Minh
State University of West Georgia
E-mail: vnguyen@westga.edu
Dear Colleagues,
It was with deep sorrow that we learned of the sudden death of Professor Aulbach, a great scientist and a wonderful man. Please accept my sincere condolences.
Sincerely,
Klara Janglajew.
Dear Colleagues,
we are deeply saddened by the news of the sudden passing of Professor Bernd Aulbach. We are really sorry about it and it is hard to belief in it. It is difficult for us to face the sad truth. We will miss for a long time the kindness, honesty and commitment to ISDE of its President, Professor Aulbach.
Sincerely,
Jaroslaw Morchalo, Malgorzata Migda and Ewa Schmeidel
I knew Bernd Aulbach for many years, and in this time I found him to be a great scholar, and a good friend. His loss will be deeply felt by his family.
He leaves a great body of mathematical work, and his colleagues will remember his industry, encouragement and enthusiasm. His leadership of the ISDE will be sorely missed.
A fitting tribute to his mathematical accomplishments would be a special volume dedicated to him, and I would be honoured to contribute to and assist with this.
Istvan Gyori, Member of Board of Directors, ISDE
Dear Colleagues,
Recently, we learned about the sad news of the sudden death of our president Professor Bernd Aulbach. I have received the news with deep sadness and really I am very sorry about it. I would like to express my sincere condolences to his family and also to all the members of ISDE. He was a great mathematician, wonderful and kindely person. I am asking all the members that read this messeage to pray for him and asking the Society to dedicate the conference of the difference equations this year to his memory.
Really we lost a good person.
Sincerely yours
Dr. Samir Saker
Dear ISDE members,
it is a huge shock both for me and for the society that Bernd Aulbach passed away. Since, especially for me as a young scientist, he was such an inspiring and motivating person, I decided to attend his funeral together with Andreas Ruffing.
In spite of the grave atmosphere due to Bernd Aulbach's death, I have to admit and want to point out that the ceremonial and the weather on that day have been particularly nice - almost as if the sky wanted to thank god for this beautiful mind. The funeral service was ended by two talks of condolence, one by the chairman at Bernd's department, the other one by a student. In these talks, the great deeds and personality of Bernd Aulbach were reflected in a suitable way.
Finally, at the grave, I expressed my condolence to Bernd's family. I had so many great chats with Bernd during the last ICDEA meetings; he always took his time to talk to me. On the one hand, he was such a friendly person, on the other hand, he was (and still is) an admirable scientific leader.
Let me again express my deep condolence to all of you and of course to Bernd Aulbach's family.
Best wishes
Moritz Simon
Dear Colleagues:
We knew about the sad news that unfortunately Professor Bernd Aulbach has left us. I would like to express my sincere condolences to his family. Bernd passed away. We lost a great mathematician.
Sincerely,
Guang Zhang, Qingdao Technological University, China
Dear Colleagues,
I just met Professor Aulbach at the 9th Conference on Difference Equations at USC. He gave me a strong impression of being full of scientific plans and expectations. His scientific vision was clear and exciting.
Let me express my condolences to Professor Aulbach's family. My deepest condolences to Professor Elaydi and to Andreas Ruffing - his friends whom I know, to all the members of ISDE, who lost a brilliant scientist and Person.
V. Gontar, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Dear Colleagues,
let us please present our condolences on the premature death of Professor Bernd Aulbach.
Prof. Ludmila A. Uvarova, Head of Appl. Math. Dept. at Moscow State University of Technology "STANKIN"
Julia Elyseeva, member of ISDE
Dear Colleagues,
I am deeply shocked about the sudden death of my friend and colleague Bernd Aulbach. He was such a wonderful person and he was an excellent mathematician. I will never forget him. I want to express my sincere sympathy with his family.
Ulrich Krause, Bremen.
Dear Colleagues,
it has been almost two weeks now since our friend and colleague Bernd Aulbach suddenly and unexpectedly passed away. I am still in a state of shock, and it is still so hard to believe that it is true. Today even I received a package from him! I have not opened it yet, but it probably contains the proceedings of the Augsburg conference.
We will never forget him as a great person, an excellent organizer and leader, and an extraordinary mathematician. As an example, which is concerned with one of my research areas, we will never forget that it was him who suggested to Stefan Hilger to create a theory to combine differential and difference equations, which later became known as the theory of dynamic equations on time scales.
Again, I would like to express my deep condolences to Bernd Aulbach's family, his friends, his students, and all of his colleagues.
Sincerely,
Martin Bohner, Member of Board of Directors, ISDE
Dear Colleagues,
It was with deep sorrow to know that Professor Aulbach suddenly left us. We extend our sincere condolences to his family, friends and colleagues. We have lost a great mathematician and a great President of ISDE.
Sincerely,
Kazuo Nishimura and Yoshihiro Hamaya
Please click here for the obituary (in German)
Please click here for the obituary (in English) translated by Martin Bohner -- February 1, 2005
Dear Colleagues,
It is very sad that Professor Aulbach has left us so early.
We would like to express our sincere condolences to his family and also to all ISDE members.
Sincerely,
G. Papaschinopoulos and C. J. Schinas, Greece
To the Friends and Colleagues of Professor Bernd Aulbach around the world:
We should like to express our gratitude to you all for mourning with us our beloved husband and father. Your condolences comfort us - knowing him in your hearts makes his passing easier to bear.
We feel that the best way to honour his academic legacy is to continue his work.
Thank you all, once again, for your sympathy.
Gudrun Aulbach (wife)
Sandra, Christian and Martin (children)
on behalf of the whole family.
Dear Colleagues,
Please accept my sincere condolences in connection with the death of Professor Bernd Aulbach. He was a great scientist, nice person and excellent organizer. His death is a great loss to science.
Natalia Kosareva (Moscow, Russia), member of ISDE
Dear Colleagues,
It was with deep sorrow that I learned of the death of our colleague Professor Bernd Aulbach. I would like to express my sincere condolences to his family, his students, all of his colleagues and members of ISDE.
Vladimir Chiricalov (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Dear Colleagues,
It was with deep sorrow to know that Professor Aulbach suddenly left us. We lost a great mathematician.
We would like to express our sincere condolences to his family and also to all ISDE members.
Sincerely,
Yonghui Xia, Fuzhou University, China
Dear Colleagues,
Professor Aulbach was an accomplished mathematician of international repute and a good mentor to his students. He was a caring and energetic man, and a good friend of mine who will be missed greatly. His untimely death is a loss to all in the difference equations and dynamical systems community and deeply saddens those who knew him personally.
Hassan Sedaghat, Virginia Commonwealth University, ISDE member
Dear Colleagues,
I just got a sad new about the death of Professor Aulbach.
I could not believe that Bernd has passed away.
He was a great mathematician and vivid person.
We never forget him.
I would like to express my condolences to his family and to all ISDE members.
Sincerely,
Alya Rodkina