tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991433525661686814.post3244865748117818690..comments2016-06-26T18:03:24.940+02:00Comments on Ferran Hurtado Memorial: From David RappaportErik Demainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13790171942601863900noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991433525661686814.post-24233843990041229882014-11-19T18:08:03.296+01:002014-11-19T18:08:03.296+01:00This is a shock!
As I am not on the CG mailing li...This is a shock!<br /><br />As I am not on the CG mailing list anymore, I only come to know this sad news today (Nov 19). I remembered vividly that Ferran visited the computational geometry group at McGill in late 1991/early 1992 (when I was a first year PhD student), and modestly described (probably) his first work in computational geometry --- onion polygonizations. I remembered the two of us discussing the unoriented maxima problem posed by Godfried in his computational geometry class, over a weekend in the room behind the CG Lab where he was sharing with a couple other visitors, as both of us complained "too cold and nowhere to go". (That problem then hooked a few other members in the CG group at McGill: David, Luc, Hossam, Eric; and was eventually published in SIAM J. Comput. in 1998.)<br /><br />As my research are mostly in computational biology since about 2004, I did not have much chance meeting Ferran. But I enjoyed my last meeting with him at SoCG'11 in Paris, chaired by Ferran. I enjoyed our chat.<br /><br />Ferran, you will be missed! Binhai Zhuhttp://www.cs.montana.edu/bhznoreply@blogger.com