Jens-Peer Kuska passed away
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- Subject: [mg101427] Jens-Peer Kuska passed away
- From: mtrott at wolfram.com
- Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 05:05:28 -0400 (EDT)
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Dear Mathgroup, I am sorry to inform you that Jens-Peer Kuska passed away last week. He was 45 years old. I have known Jens-Peer since the early 80s when we both studied physics at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Our departments were on opposite sides of the first floor hallway. After Germany's reunification and the availability of more computers and software, Jens-Peer's favorite program soon become Mathematica. And he evolved to be a true expert of it. His broad and detailed mathematics and physics knowledge allowed Jens to cover new areas in computer graphics with his OpenGL viewer and in his work on medical image processing. Most of the Mathgroup readers know Jens-Peer from his short, to the point, helpful, stimulating contributions to Mathgroup, where he contributed so many times for more than 10 years. http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?enc_user=OYlIrx8AAACUxZjYdkFuXRkVM5CWP0nj1ZkYyRt9DFmqLZPJWZ3WHA And the German-speaking Mathematica user knew him additionally from his many contribution to the German Mathematica user group: http://www.google.com/#q=Jens-Peer+Kuska+site:www.mathematica.ch&hl=en&fp=1&cad=b Jens-Peer was a brilliant Mathematica (and in general) programmer who was able to code complicated algorithms efficiently and elegantly. His reservoir of ideas what to implement, calculate, investigate, or visualize was virtually unlimited. For the ones that were fortunate to know him in person and discuss Mathematica, mathematics, physics, or image-processing issues with him, know the value of his deep, critical, and constructive opinions and contributions. He loved to discuss so many different topics, ranging from Fullform[]s of Mathematica graphics expressions to shape-characteristics of averaged Wigner functions of quantum systems and the use of partial differential equations to image processing tasks. We all will miss such discussions with him in the future. Jens-Peer will be missed by the Mathematica community, his university department (http://www.izbi.uni-leipzig.de/englisch/izbi/mitarbeiter/kuska.php), his former students, his friends, and of course, his family. Michael Trott Wolfram Research
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