tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39914335256616868142024-03-13T09:18:21.030+01:00Ferran Hurtado MemorialErik Demainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13790171942601863900noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991433525661686814.post-26574190512234433552014-10-15T14:40:00.000+02:002014-10-15T14:40:00.072+02:00Des de Girona<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Moltes gràcies Ferran. Moltes gràcies per què sense tu el grup de
geometria computacional de Girona segurament no existiria. Per nosaltres
sempre vas ser la persona a la que demanàvem consell quan dubtàvem doncs
la teva opinió sempre aportava seguretat en les nostres decisions. De tu
vam aprendre que en recerca si perseveres les males notícies es poden
convertir en bones notícies. I així, a poc a poc, seguint els teus
consells, la teva família científica de Girona va anar augmentant i
seguirà augmentant.
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<br />Moltes gràcies per sempre.
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<br />Toni, Marta, Narcís, Marité, Iago, Nacho.
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Vera Sacristánhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11348201478151877962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991433525661686814.post-78645400209022193972014-10-13T21:34:00.004+02:002014-10-13T21:38:36.492+02:00From Eduardo Rivera-Campo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gran amigo y anfitrión, como a muchos, nos recibiste en la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya y, junto con Teresa, Blanca y Eduard, en tu casa a toda la familia. Gracias a ti conocimos la belleza de tu ciudad y país y la grandeza de su comida, en más de una ocasión preparada por ti mismo y acompañada por un estupendo vino que siempre supiste escoger.</span></div>
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Jit Bosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15986304394931098515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991433525661686814.post-67936747315038577062014-10-13T18:44:00.003+02:002014-10-13T20:18:57.569+02:00<div style="text-align: justify;">
Dear Ferran, we will remember these hours in front of the blackboard in Barcelona, we will remember your
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<span class="s_trad1">We will remember our discussions about wines, about "polar français", which you knew better than us, about saying "quatre heures moins le quart" in many languages... </span></div>
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<span class="s_trad1">We will remember that when Monique was preparing her latest visit to your group, you wrote </span><span class="s_trad1">"J'ai
déjà placé dans la cave un verdejo Rueda spécial.", you could still </span>r<span class="s_trad1">emember that
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<span class="s_trad1">We will remember so many good moments with you. <br />
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"Ferran, cent ans après, coquin de sort, tu manqueras encore."
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Monique & OlivierAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00909081767935975531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991433525661686814.post-55067262456649022402014-10-13T16:16:00.000+02:002014-10-13T16:33:21.077+02:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm just drinking a glass of good red wine <span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 12.1333341598511px;">—</span> you remember the '2πr' you discovered once and brought me some bottles? Tastes excellent <span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 12.1333341598511px;">—</span> as you said: 'a real round wine'! I was saving the last bottle for a special occasion, hoping that we could jointly enjoy it. Well, I could write you how sad I am, how sad we are all. But I prefer to let you know how happy I'm that I had the privilege to meet you, to know you for over 20 years, to have you as a colleague, a teacher, a friend, and to learn so many things from you.</div>
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I was always excited when, either in Barcelona or wherever we met for a workshop or conference, you asked me if I would like to join for dinner. I knew that it will be an excellent place and a pleasurable evening <span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 12.1333341598511px;">—</span> I still have a list with recommendations from you where to go. And for the accompanying wine is was always a simple and sure thing: just follow Ferrans advice. And I was deeply impressed when you could identify all the local wines in a blind tasting even here at a Buschenschank, and tell me facts about them which I have not heard before.</div>
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Working with you was always fun. Not that the problems you posed were so easy to solve. But you always gave them an adequate label like 'poisoned' so that everybody was warned. I'm happy that sometimes we ignored that labels and still attacked them. And if we were very lucky we could in fact solve several of them. Just to then immediately ask if the result could be strengthened or generalized. That was fun.</div>
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When organizing our joint projects I always knew that I can rely on you. In subtle matters I always appreciated your advise. For example, when local science foundations mutually blocked each other like the dinning philosophers, we gave them calls in parallel <span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 12.1333341598511px;">—</span> and it worked. Or do you remember that in one of the early joint proposals the placeholder sentence 'the Catalan team will teach the Austrian students how to drink Spanish wine' survived till the final version, and only your last reading prevented us from submitting this to the science foundations? That was really close. But fun!</div>
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Ferran, wherever you are now, I'm sure you already found some excellent red wine to taste, so I raise my glass <span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 12.1333341598511px;">—</span> ¡Salud y muchas gracias por todo Ferran!</div>
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OswinOswinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00613374212104860423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991433525661686814.post-32448657481178186902014-10-11T20:43:00.005+02:002014-10-11T20:44:36.229+02:00From David Rappaport<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We first met more than twenty years ago when Ferran came to Kingston for a day to discuss problems that I had worked on. Godfried Toussaint had arranged this meeting and it was with a bit of trepidation that I agreed to make time to meet a total stranger. Needless to say the time we spent together was sublime. Nobody could make discussing mathematics more pleasurable than Ferran. But there was far more to Ferran than mathematics. At dinner that night Ferran charmed my wife Tracy, a visual artist, with his depth of knowledge of art.</div>
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Many years later when I finally made it to Barcelona for a Sabbatical stay Ferran was the ideal host. He organized a fabulous apartment, a fantastic school for our daughter, Bree, and took care of every mundane detail meticulously, including coffee in the cupboard and milk in the fridge for our first morning in Barcelona.</div>
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Once I drove with Ferran to Zaragoza from Barcelona. I remember listening to music on that trip. Ferran must have carefully selected the cds that we would listen to. Of course we listened to Flamenco. But in addition to that Ferran turned me on to what has become one of my favourite jazz guitar players. Ferran had a knack of doing exactly what was right. </div>
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He was an exceptional human being, always human, always genuine, always real. We miss him very much.</div>
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Jit Bosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15986304394931098515noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991433525661686814.post-34796052402217721142014-10-11T04:51:00.001+02:002014-10-11T16:30:34.151+02:00From Philadelphia<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Many here have written eloquently about Ferran as geometer, mathematician, problem poser, and problem solver extraordinaire. He was all that and so much more professionally, but it is as a warm and gracious human being that Ferran will remain forever in our hearts. Ferran had so many talents and interests, which enriched the lives of all who knew him because of his giving nature. We had the good fortune to experience Ferran's generosity as a host during our months in Barcelona on sabbatical. He helped in so many ways, from arranging for our apartment, to driving us to an instrument rental place to rent a keyboard for our daughter, to taking us to a thrilling 10pm Barca game at their home stadium, to informing us about exquisite flamenco guitar concerts, to introducing us to the owner of his favorite wine store, to selecting excellent wine to complement our 'Thanksgiving in Barcelona' dinner in November to help celebrate our kids' favorite American holiday! Moltes gr<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather; line-height: 18px;">à</span>cies per tot, Ferran. We are heartbroken that you are no longer with us. Our visits to Barcelona will not be the same again without you.</div>
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the older brother I never had. He </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;">i</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;">s
the brother who help</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;">s</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;">
you when you </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;">a</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;">re
in trouble, calm</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;">s</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;">
you down when you </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;">a</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;">re
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console</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;">s</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;">
you when you </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;">are</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;">
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you, encourage</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;">s</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;">
you, support</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;">s</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;">
you, love</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;">s</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;">
you. The brother you look up to because he is so talented, he does everything so well, he is cultured, he is refined, he is
knowledgeable, he is creative. He is patient with you and listens to
you. My brother is gone. Taken away too quickly. His departure has
left a big hole in my heart. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;">I
am a little lost in this world without him. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 100%;">I love you Ferran and I will miss you.</span></span></div>
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Jit Bosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15986304394931098515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991433525661686814.post-26663495252541704052014-10-07T07:49:00.000+02:002014-10-07T15:18:27.539+02:00Ferran Hurtado. A gentleman and a scholar.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">
I will remember your gracious hospitality every time I visited your department. You welcomed me as a friend the first time I dropped by 12 years ago. I will remember your sincere kindness throughout the years. It has been a pleasure and an honor for me to solve problems with you, and also to simply chat about life over a fine meal. It is hard to believe we will no longer share notes on where to have dinner around the world, or meet to watch your beloved FC Barcelona during conferences, workshops and visits.</div>
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You will be missed.<br /><br />-gregGreg Aloupishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11030564298781005435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991433525661686814.post-14152256409394369172014-10-07T06:11:00.000+02:002014-10-07T15:17:49.672+02:00From Pedro Ramos<div style="text-align: justify;">
I had the privilege of being his student (when he was a postdoc <span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 12.1333341598511px; text-align: left;">—</span> isn't that already incredible?) then his colleague, and friend. I know at some point the joy of the relation with an exceptional person <span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 12.1333341598511px; text-align: left;">—</span> both on the personal and on the professional side, a combination not that frequent <span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 12.1333341598511px; text-align: left;">—</span> will prevail. But it is going to take time, a lot of time.</div>
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Here is the logo that he made for us at EGC2011. Yes, another proof of his helpfulness and good taste for everything.</div>
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Ramos Frailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11946535956379584156noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991433525661686814.post-27592848337593032562014-10-06T23:54:00.000+02:002014-10-07T00:08:39.423+02:00From Brussels<div style="text-align: justify;">
Ferran was a great colleague and friend, and the announcement of his passing away leaves us shocked and deeply saddened.</div>
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He visited us many times in Brussels during the past ten years. These were memorable times, filled with exciting open questions, epic working sessions, Belgian street food delicacies, and witty humor. He was an amazing problem poser, with a characteristic taste for simplicity and elegance. Ferran was also a gourmet foodie. It was well known that he was the one to follow for the best food and drinks after a day of talks and research discussions. His kindness and respect were infinite.</div>
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Ferran aimait mener une conversation dans un français impeccable dès que l'occasion se présentait.</div>
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Il restera à jamais parmi nous, dans nos coeurs, et à travers ses contributions durables à la géométrie algorithmique.</div>
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The memorial card distributed at the funeral ceremony reproduces a painting by Ferran.<br />
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Vera Sacristánhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11348201478151877962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991433525661686814.post-72649257465584966782014-10-06T21:53:00.002+02:002014-10-06T21:53:37.758+02:00From Manuel Abellanas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Artista, Matemático, Maestro, Amigo. <br />
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L’any 1982 el Ferran va ser el meu professor de Geometria Projectiva a la Universitat de Barcelona. Amb una cigarreta entre el dit menovell i l’anular (sí, llavors es fumava a les aules...) i el guix entre l’índex i el polze, les seves demostracions sintètiques impecablement dibuixades a la pissarra ens deixaven impressionats. Jo encara guardo i utilitzo les meves llibretes amb els apunts d’aquell curs. Com també guardo en la memòria el dia que em va fer sortir a la pissarra: “la senyoreta de la tercera fila que porta un jersei blau marí amb ratlles blanques i una xapa lil.la al costat esquerre...” L´últim dia del curs vam provar de sorprendre’l amb una petita celebració, però ell va arribar a l’aula amb una copa de plàstic a la butxaca, preparat per al nostre cava. Després va venir un examen final de dos dies que estic segura que tots els meus companys de curs recorden: era tan impossible de fer...</div>
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El vaig retrobar quan l’any 1990 em vaig incorporar al Departament de Matemàtica Aplicada II de la UPC i des de llavors hem estat companys. L’he vist crear el grup de Geometria Computacional i, com tothom, m’he beneficiat d’estar a prop seu. La Carmen Cortés va venir a treballar amb ell, però amb ella i la Belén jo vaig passar molt bones estones. Li dec bon menjar, bons vins, bons concerts de guitarra (Paco de Lucía a l’Auditori, inoblidable) i totes les ocasions que ell sempre aprofitava per celebrar. Quan vaig anar a passar una temporada a Montreal, em va recomanar una pastisseria. Hi vaig anar i naturalment era excel·lent. Els consells del Ferran sempre valien la pena.</div>
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Amable, detallista, generós, col.laboratiu, sempre exquisit en les formes, sempre amb la solució sintètica correcta... s’emporta la meva admiració, el meu respecte i la meva estimació.</div>
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Erik Demainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13790171942601863900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991433525661686814.post-2624738240223664732014-10-06T15:45:00.001+02:002014-10-06T15:46:24.870+02:00Ferran's last conference logo was a smiling polygon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Vera Sacristánhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11348201478151877962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991433525661686814.post-24007982943348086262014-10-06T15:43:00.000+02:002014-10-06T16:31:32.806+02:00Farewell ceremony<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We listened to two guitar pieces that Ferran loved, and we read a selection of extracts of the many texts written by the members of our scientific community in their blogs, tweets and this memorial blog. By doing this we intended to show the presence of all of you, who were physically far away, but close in your minds. The reading was done in Spanish, English and Catalan. I particularly wish to thank Manuel and Jit for accompanying me in this reading.<br />
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<i>We had never imagined that we would write these words. Not like this. Because Ferran was a person full of vitality and interests. From mathematics, far more than a job, a passion; to guitar and music, with concerts and hours at home; from reading science fiction and detective stories, to the classic French or the impossible Americans that only he knew about; from painting and his paintings, and the paintings of his parents; to football, or Barca, which is the same; wines, traveling, playing cards, cooking,... And so many other things that he did so well.</i></div>
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<i>But Ferran was very sick. His disease took advantage of all his virtues to carry them to the extreme, and take him away. He was much sicker than any of us was able to see because, the way he was, he did not want us to suffer.</i></div>
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<i>A few weeks ago we laughed with Tere when, talking on the phone of philosophy and other absurd things, we remembered that, when collecting literary prizes, Thomas Bernhard used to say that "everything is ridiculous compared to death." This outburst made us laugh – at home we always had a sense of humor, maybe a particular one. Today, in the proper context, it shows as an indisputable truth.</i></div>
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<i>Experts tell us that it is very important that we say goodbye. We refuse to do so, because Ferran will always be with us. Although he told us that nothing is certain except Pythagoras' Theorem, we know for sure that Ferran will always be with us.</i></div>
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Vera Sacristánhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11348201478151877962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991433525661686814.post-90829167480862192072014-10-06T15:35:00.000+02:002014-10-06T16:30:54.863+02:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Some of you have asked me “why don’t you write something?”. But you all know the answer: “Because I can’t. How many times and in how many different circumstances he helped me personally or mathematically? How could I write how much I owe him and how much I will miss him?" But finally, I understand that I owe him a written contribution. So let me just mention two things, although I feel they are only a very small part of all I think and feel.</div>
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Ferran gave me all of the most important pushes and advices in my personal/professional life (who can completely distinguish them?). First, by sending me to Stony Brook in 1995 after plotting every detail with Steve behind my back. Some time later, knowing that I tend to get involved in too many different activities, by simply saying “do you intend to finish your PhD thesis before or after your retirement?” Many years later, when I accepted a service position in our university, he sent me the shortest but wiser of all the messages that I received. It was composed by just three words: “suerte, valor y miedo” (luck, courage, and fear). After I came back from my service years, he helped me in absolutely everything, and since then he has been protecting me from all my crazy temptations of getting involved in too many things, the last one being very recent.</div>
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Ferran knew every geometric issue I don’t know. And this means a huge amount of stuff. I always particularly loved his knowledge of classical geometry and his ability for synthetic and simple proofs. Many of you must have participated in a workshop scene which has been repeated many times, when the problem under study went to a point where my reaction was “let’s stop trying solving this, I am sure Ferran recognizes the object we are dealing with”. He was called, looked briefly at the problem, and said: “of course, this geometric locus is an ellipse!” or “sure, this lines form an hyperboloid!”.</div>
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Vera Sacristánhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11348201478151877962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991433525661686814.post-31147050064266800662014-10-06T14:59:00.000+02:002014-10-06T16:32:34.326+02:00Remembering Ferran's many gifts to the community<div style="text-align: justify;">
Many of us have been writing about how many ways Ferran gave of himself to our community, contributing so many clever problems, solutions, and ideas. And he contributed to bringing us together in so many venues, in hosting us in Barcelona, and bringing his cheerfulness, kindness, and optimism to all of the many workshops and events he organized or in which he participated.</div>
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The community gathered at EGC 2011 to try to thank Ferran for all he had done for us, and to celebrate his influence on our lives, in hopes that we could give back to him, in recognition for all he had given us. And what does Ferran do, in classic Ferran style? He brings gifts for all the participants! He had carefully selected, and custom labeled (artistically crafted labels!) bottles of fine wine to THANK US! Ferran was unable NOT to give of himself. He will continue to give to me the inspirations and joys that we have shared. Thank you Ferran.</div>
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"Thank you for your participation! Ferran"</div>
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Joe Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05822056983991292324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991433525661686814.post-66690574748607437782014-10-05T21:13:00.000+02:002014-10-05T21:13:11.560+02:00A Letter to Ferran from Godfried Toussaint<div style="text-align: justify;">
Ferran, you have left us so unexpectedly and so soon at the height of your career. I remember when you came to spend some time with me at McGill University more than twenty-two years ago, filled with passion for learning computational geometry. Then you invited me to Barcelona where later I spent part of my sabbatical working with you on some new problems you had posed concerning visibility and aperture-angle optimization problems. You carried me all over the city on your little motor scooter, introduced me to horchata, tapas, and Gran Feudo. Through you I discovered Barcelona. You were always the perfect host, an eternal optimist, a marvelous conversationalist, and a gracious friend. I was fortunate that you were able to attend so many of my computational geometry workshops at the Bellairs Research Institute of McGill University in Barbados. I will always remember the beauty and elegance of the many problems you posed there. Your energy and dedication were great contributors to the success of those workshops. We will dearly miss your presence and those beautiful open problems.</div>
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Erik Demainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13790171942601863900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991433525661686814.post-67513438069201268232014-10-05T05:50:00.000+02:002014-10-05T05:52:25.370+02:00Letter from Jorge UrrutiaMi muy querido y estimado viejo amigo Ferran:<br />
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Comenzare y terminaré mi carta como comienza y termina una canción de Alberto Cotez, “Carta a mi Viejo”.<br />
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A mi Viejo amigo Ferran:<br />
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En cualquier día, en cualquier lugar, mi querido y Viejo amigo Ferran:<br />
Perdón por lo de viejo, pero es que así te siento mas cerca. Dondequiera que estés, nada me agradaría mas que pudieras leer esta carta, dirigida más que a un amigo y a un colega, a un hermano del alma. Recuerdo claramente el día que llegaste a mi vida, con una buena botella de vino, y un problema muy bonito de matemáticas, el cual resolvimos esa misma noche. Ese fue el principio de una amistad que no quedará truncada hoy, sino que continuará, hasta al menos, el último día de mi vida. En esos días vivía en Ottawa, y ambos éramos todavía, dos jóvenes, entusiastas de la belleza y de las matemáticas. Recuerdo la sensación que sentí de haberte conocido ya por mucho tiempo, y que eras un amigo que regresaba después de una ausencia.<br />
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A partir de entonces, pasamos incontables horas disfrutando del vino, de las matemáticas y compartiendo nuestra vida aquí y allá, año tras año, experiencia tras experiencia, viviendo y sin darnos cuenta, envejeciendo poco a poco. Recuerdo como si fuera hoy a tu entonces pequeña hija “Blanquita” quien en más de una ocasión me acompañó, tomada de la mano, a hacer unas compras para completar la comida de algunas de las inolvidables cenas que tuvimos en tu casa, en Barcelona.<br />
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Me es difícil aceptar que te nos adelantaste tan prematuramente, y que el último mensaje que me enviaste hace solo unos días, fue el último que recibiría de ti. Gracias por enviarme ese mensaje, que más que nada, era una carta de un amigo a otro, compartiendo los problemas que te aquejaban. Nunca imaginé el desenlace de tu crisis.<br />
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Hoy abrí la última botella de vino que con tanto cariño me regalaste, y me la bebí con mi esposa hasta la ultima gota, en tu memoria. El vino lo bebí, y la botella la conservaré como un recuerdo de nuestra amistad y cariño. A tu familia, Tere, Eduard y Blanquita mi más sentido pésame. Los quiero mucho y los llevo en mi corazón… Y bien, la carta ya se termina, pues la noche ha dejado de ser doncella y la llevará volando la golondrina, hasta allí donde vives, con las estrellas.<br />
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Erik Demainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13790171942601863900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991433525661686814.post-73141527606377643792014-10-05T05:32:00.004+02:002014-10-05T06:12:35.238+02:00from David and Mandy WoodFerran Hurtado: husband, father, friend, mentor, mathematician, educator, linguist, artist, chef, guitarist, wine connoisseur, dominos expert, pool expert, Barca fan, lover of life. Let me recall two anecdotes that say a little about Ferran.<br />
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Ferran could tell you the food or wine speciality seemingly of every town and village in Spain. On a 700km voyage across northern Spain, when I would have speed towards our destination, Ferran instead chose a town renowned for its fresh vegetables at that moment in the year, had time to find the best restaurant in town, and then knew exactly what to order without looking at the menu. We still reached our destination on time. I know no other person who is so in touch with his world.<br />
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My last email from Ferran followed the birth of my daughter Lucy in May. He wrote,<br />
"It was only a couple of days after the birth that our family gathered and we had a joyful toast to Lucy (and family). It was a Colonial Estate Envoy, mixing Grenache, Shiraz and Mourvedre. Very nice Australian wine ... and a very happy moment!"<br />
Of course, Ferran had the perfect wine for the occasion. More importantly, Ferran involved himself in the lives of others, never intrusive, always loving.<br />
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Ferran, I will miss you deeply.<br />
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<br />David Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16050202611625893594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991433525661686814.post-1447407329052781022014-10-04T22:29:00.004+02:002014-10-04T22:29:44.129+02:00Letter from Graz, Austria<div style="text-align: justify;">
We are all deeply sad that Ferran is not with us any more. As Jorge said, let us remember the true friend we were lucky to meet, and with whom we enjoyed so many precious moments in life. We would like to share with you a picture from our last joint workshop, one of the many occasions we had the pleasure to appreciate his presence.</div>
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Erik Demainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13790171942601863900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991433525661686814.post-33993960259023409962014-10-04T22:24:00.002+02:002014-10-04T23:14:05.952+02:00Letter from Paco Santos<div style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Message received from Francisco (Paco) Santos, in English and Spanish:</i></div>
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Ferran was an exceptional mathematician because his work was exceptional, but also because his career was an exception in several respects. He started research at an age when common wisdom asserts that a mathematician has already given his or her best, yet by productivity and number of coworkers he became some sort of Spanish Erdős, and I am proud to have a Hurtado number of 1. But he was also an exceptional person. Tireless worker, tireless organizer, tireless conversationalist.</div>
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And always smiling, Ferran the eternal optimist. I think of him and cannot visualize his face without his smile, with that rogue touch he had in it.</div>
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We all owe him a lot. We will all miss him a lot.</div>
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No sé qué decir. Me lo contó David cuando yo estaba a punto de salir para un encuentro de la Red Española de Topología en Tordesillas, de donde acabo de regresar, y no he tenido tiempo de pararme a escribir, salvo un breve mensaje que mandé ayer a Marc Noy y a Antonio Montes en respuesta a otro de Tomás. </div>
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En realidad no he tenido tiempo de asimilarlo. Ferran, el eterno optimista. Pienso en él y no consigo visualizar su cara sin su sonrisa, con ese puntito pícaro que tenía.</div>
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En todo caso, como dije ayer en la asamblea de la RET, Ferran era un matemático excepcional porque su trabajo era excepcional, pero también porque su carrera era una excepción en muchos sentidos. Comenzó a investigar a una edad en la que el common wisdom asevera que un matemático ya ha dado lo mejor de sí. En términos de producción y número de coautores era una especie de Erdos español, y me enorgullezco de que mi número de Hurtado sea 1. Y era también una persona excepcional. Trabajador incansable, organizador incansable, conversador incansable. Todos le debemos mucho, y le echaremos mucho de menos.</div>
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Un abrazo muy fuerte y mucho ánimo,</div>
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Erik Demainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13790171942601863900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991433525661686814.post-10588612267003872432014-10-04T19:05:00.004+02:002014-10-04T19:05:58.622+02:00Et trobaré a faltar, Ferran — Clara Grima<div style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Reposting <a href="http://seispalabras-clara.blogspot.com.es/2014/10/et-trobare-faltar-ferran.html">Et trobaré a faltar, Ferran</a> from <a href="http://seispalabras-clara.blogspot.com.es/">Clara Grima's blog</a>:</i></div>
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Es jodido que desaparezcan personajes de tu historia. Siempre lo es. Pero la pérdida de hoy deja un agujero muy grande en mi corazón.</div>
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Ha muerto el profesor Ferran Hurtado, mi amigo Ferran. Escribo estas líneas para creérmelo, para verlo escrito, porque no me entra en la cabeza. Es absurdo. Es jodidamente absurdo. Es una puta mierda.</div>
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No puedo aceptar que no lo volveré a ver, a escuchar, a trabajar con él, a que me hable de vinos, de cómo prepara el paté casero.</div>
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Pero así es esto y hay que seguir.</div>
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Gracias, Ferran, por todo, por todo lo que me enseñaste, por todo lo que compartimos, por recordar siempre nuestra última conversación cada vez que nos volvíamos a encontrar, por tus triangulaciones y tus flips. Gracias por hablarme de Silvia Pérez Cruz. Gracias por reírte y aguantar que te respondiese con "Zeñó, sí, zeñó" cuando me pedías que hiciera algo. Gracias porque necesitaba que te gustase mi Mati y te gustó.</div>
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Gracias por haber estado en mi vida. Ojalá pudiese creer que volveremos a brindar en alguna otra parte, pero no. Esto es así. Se acaba y te deja con esta cara de estúpida, enfadada, con tantas cosas por decir.</div>
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Descansa en paz, por favor.</div>
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That is my portrait of Ferran, one of the kindest people I have known. Ferran and I were both visiting Stefan Langerman, renting Brussels apartments one above the other with our wives. We'd work all day, eat at a different but always superb restaurant (one always ate well in Ferran's presence), and then perhaps attend an evening concert. Work on one paper ("Highway Hull Revisited") was nearly complete, but we had only a convoluted proof of Lemma 7. I wanted to close out the paper; Ferran frowned morning after morning with displeasure at our proof. Then one morning he arrived with a beautifully intricate elementary Euclidean geometry proof, ensconced in the above figure.</div>
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He strove for simplicity and beauty in all his work, and regularly matched his own high standards. This is not only true in his geometry work, but also in his painting, his music, and even his dominoes play. I like to believe that he is now enjoying browsing proofs from <i>The Book</i>, and pleased to learn that so many bear his name. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">It is with a heavy heart that the international computational geometry</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hurtado, who suddenly passed away yesterday (Oct 2).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Ferran gave of himself as a teacher, a mentor, a scholar, a colleague,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">a leader, a husband, a father, and as a kind and ever generous friend,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to all who had the distinct pleasure of knowing him.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The CG community celebrated Ferran's contributions at the EGC</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Ferran-fest in June, 2011. In the photos of the joyous occasion we</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Pictures taken during the meeting:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/103245505595528325592/XIVSpanishMeetingOnComputationalGeometry?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCNP08PSksI-ARg&feat=directlink" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">https://picasaweb.google.com/<wbr></wbr>103245505595528325592/<wbr></wbr>XIVSpanishMeetingOnComputation<wbr></wbr>alGeometry?authuser=0&authkey=<wbr></wbr>Gv1sRgCNP08PSksI-ARg&feat=<wbr></wbr>directlink</a><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Presentation, mainly with pictures of the album offered as present to Ferran:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/103245505595528325592/AlbumFerranPresentation?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCKXNqp2e1oHxLA&feat=directlink" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">https://picasaweb.google.com/<wbr></wbr>103245505595528325592/<wbr></wbr>AlbumFerranPresentation?<wbr></wbr>authuser=0&authkey=<wbr></wbr>Gv1sRgCKXNqp2e1oHxLA&feat=<wbr></wbr>directlink</a><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Some videos of the social dinner:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Ferran was recently included in the "Tree of Mathematics", an</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and Portugal, known for their research in mathematics or relevance in</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the use of mathematics (in science, technology, economics, ...), by</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">younger generations." See </span><a href="http://www.arbolmat.com/ferran-hurtado/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">http://www.arbolmat.com/<wbr></wbr>ferran-hurtado/</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Spanish Mathematical Society has sent out an announcement of</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.rsme.es/content/view/1607/1/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">http://www.rsme.es/content/<wbr></wbr>view/1607/1/</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Catalan Mathematical Society has also sent out its own</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Benvolguts socis,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Us hem de comunicar la trista notícia de la mort del professor Ferran</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hurtado, catedràtic de matemàtiques de la UPC, expert internacional</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">molt destacat en Geometria Computacional, soci de la SCM i company</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">molt admirat i estimat a tota la nostra comunitat matemàtica, tant a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">la universitat com a l'ensenyament secundari, on va començar la seva</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Que descansi en pau.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Societat Catalana de Matemàtiques</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">C. Carme 47, 08001 Barcelona</span><br />
<a href="mailto:scm@iec.cat" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">scm@iec.cat</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The colleagues at UPC have also published a note in "La Vanguardia"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">which is the most important newspaper in town. This is the on-line</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">version (in Catalan):</span><br />
<a href="http://enmemoria.lavanguardia.com/39240727-fallecimiento-ferran-hurtado-diaz" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">http://enmemoria.lavanguardia.<wbr></wbr>com/39240727-fallecimiento-<wbr></wbr>ferran-hurtado-diaz</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The funeral will be on Sunday morning (Oct 5, 11:30 local time)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We welcome members of the community to share their thoughts and</span><br />
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<a href="http://ferranhurtado.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">http://ferranhurtado.blogspot.<wbr></wbr>com/</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We cherish our memories and will always hold you in our thoughts.</span><br />
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