Jonathan Borwein
The American Mathematical Monthly, the world’s largest-circulation mathematical journal, has published a special issue devoted to the career of Jonathan Borwein.
Here are some of the articles of the issue:
Introduction to the Special Issue, by David H. Bailey and Scott Chapman. This gives a brief overview of Borwein’s career and the contents of the special issue. This article is freely available HERE.
Jonathan Borwein: Renaissance Mathematician, by David H. Bailey. This gives an overview of Borwein’s research, emphasizing how that Borwein, in sharp contrast to the prevailing trend to specialization in modern academic research, published significant
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We are happy to announce the publication of “From Analysis to Visualization: A Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Jonathan M. Borwein”, a compilation of research papers devoted to the memory of Jonathan Borwein. The book is the proceedings of a conference held in Borwein’s honor in September 2017 at Newcastle, Australia, near where Prof. Borwein taught for several years before passing away in August 2016.
The volume has been published by Springer, and is available for purchase from the Springer website, or from Amazon.com.
The individual papers are authored by many of Jonathan Borwein’s colleagues and collaborators. Here
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We are pleased to announce the Jonathan M. Borwein Commemorative Conference, which will be held 25-29 September 2017 in Newcastle, Australia.
The conference will focus on the five areas of Jonathan’s Borwein’s research:
Applied analysis, optimisation and convex functions. Chairs: Regina Burachik and Guolin Li. Education. Chairs: Judy-anne Osborn and Namoi Borwein. Experimental mathematics and visualization. Chair: David H. Bailey. Financial mathematics. Chair: Qiji (Jim) Zhu. Number theory, special functions and pi. Chair: Richard Brent.
A total of 36 speakers will give presentations.
The meeting will be held at Noah’s on the Beach in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, which
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Since the passing of our beloved colleague Jonathan M. Borwein, many of us have asked if we could contribute to a scholarship fund in his name.
Thanks to the diligent efforts of Karl Dilcher of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, a scholarship fund has now been set up. This has been done with the full consultation and approval of Jon’s wife and family.
Details are given in a message from Karl Dilcher, below.
David H. Bailey
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Dear Friends and Colleagues:
In consultation with the late Jonathan Borwein’s family and closest collaborators, a scholarship fund has been
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Jon at work
A day devoted to the memory of Jonathan Michael Borwein, who died on August 2, 2016, took place at the Henri Poincare Institute in Paris on February 10, 2017. This event was sponsored by SMAI, SMF, the Australian Society of Mathematics (AMS), the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) and the Canadian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics (CAIMS). About sixty persons, including colleagues from Germany, Italy, Spain, Israel, the U.S. and even Thailand, were on hand to join in this day of remembrance. The panel of speakers was made up of colleagues who either cooperated with Jon
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Welcome everybody to this remembrance day devoted to Laureate Professor Jonathan Michael Borwein.
When I decided to organize this one day workshop, I had immediately the encouragements of Fatiha Alabau, president of SMAI, from Stephane Seuret, president of SMF, from Kate Smith-Smiles president of the Australian Mathe- matical Society, from Mike Bennett president of the Canadian Mathematical Society and from Matthiew Davison president of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematical Society.
They all pass on their appreciation to all participants who are helping to honor Jon Borwein in this special way.
I would like to express my gratitude to these
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Regina Burachik, Jeya Jeyakumar and Guoyin Li organized a special session “Mathematical and Computational Optimization” at the 60th Annual Meeting of Australian Mathematical Society (from 5-7 December 2016, Australian National University, Canberra) dedicated to Laureate Professor Jonathan Michael Borwein. The session had 13 speakers and 2 keynotes, including mathematicians from Australia, Spain, Brazil, and New Zealand. All speakers came together to commemorate and acknowledge Jon’s impact and seminal contributions to mathematics and in particular to optimization. Before each talk, the speakers shared their unique experiences in working with Jon and recalled how Jon has greatly influenced their research and life.
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Ilias Kotsireas and Thierry Noah Dana-Picard have organized a special conference commemorating Jonathan Borwein, to be conducted as the 23rd Conference on Applications of Computer Algebra. It will be held at the Lev campus of the Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT).
Invited speakers include
Sara Hershkovitz, Center for Educational Technology, Tel Aviv, Israel. Doron Zeilberger, Rutgers University. Rob Corless, Western University, London, ON (Canada).
For additional details, see the conference website.
Michel Thera has organized a “Remembrance Day”, dedicated to the memory of Jonathan M. Borwein. It will be held Friday 10 February 2017 at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris. Speakers include:
F.J. Aragón Artacho (University of Alicante and CARMA). David H. Bailey (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory). Patrick Combettes (North Carolina State University). Ivar Ekeland (University Paris-Dauphine). Martin Grötschel (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften). Alexander Ioffe (Technion). Adrian S. Lewis (Cornell University). Matthew K. Tam (University of Göttingen and CARMA). Luc Trouche (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon). Qiji (Jim) Zhu (Western Michigan University).
For additional details, please see the conference website.
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Henri Wolkowicz and Heinz Bauschke organized a special session at the Canadian Mathematical Society meeting (on 3 December 2016) dedicated to Jon Borwein. The speakers, titles and abstracts of the session’s talks are available here.
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