Dear Colleagues:
With heavy heart and great grief, I am reporting to you the death of our colleague Professor Jose Sousa Ramos last Monday, January 1, 2007, from a cancer illness.
Professor Ramos was a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon. He was very much involved in ICDEA07 until he passed away. I mourn with you a great friend and a great mathematician. Our condolences go to his family, friends, colleagues, and students. This is a great loss to our society.
His legacy and memory will stay with us as long as we live.
Sincerely,
Saber Elaydi, President, ISDE
Dear Colleagues,
I am very sad to hear that Professor Sousa Ramos passed away. This is a great loss for all us.
Sousa Ramos was a very creative personality not only in science, but also in the scientific community and in the dynamical systems community, in particular. He played a significant role in the development of dynamical systems theory in Portugal. He was a researcher and teacher of academic excellence and he remains an example of great kindness, modesty, and wisdom for his friends around the world.
I and my colleagues from the institute express our deep condolences to you and to all colleagues at the Center of Mathematical Analysis, Geometry, and Dynamical Systems and at the Department of Mathematics of Instituto Superior Tecnico.
A.N. Sharkovsky
Academician of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Head of the Department of Dynamical Systems Theory
Institute of Mathematics
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
José
Rodrigues Santos de Sousa Ramos,
mathematician of great merit, passed away on
Born
in Quarteira in 1948, he graduated in
physics at the Faculdade de Ciências da
Universidade Clássica de Lisboa where he also obtained his
doctorate in
Mathematics. From 1972 he was
researcher at the Instituto de Física e
Matemática and at the Centro de
Física da Matéria Condensada, in Lisboa, at the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade Clássica
de Lisboa and, in
the last fourteen years, he was professor at the Instituto Superior
Técnico
da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa.
In the memory of all the people that met Sousa Ramos it will last the noble nature of his human character made with extreme simplicity and modesty, as well as his overwhelming and systematic dedication to the students, day after day, or the memory of his delightful enthusiasm sharing his vast culture both in mathematics and physics. Moreover José de Sousa Ramos leaves a vast and remarkable written heritage, much richer than could suggest the mere counting of two hundred scientific papers in international magazines with referee. Most of his papers were in the field of discrete dynamical systems and, in particular, in symbolic dynamics.
The importance of the scientific work of José de Sousa Ramos lies in his great creative capacity and mental autonomy, sometimes putting him much ahead of his colleagues with original thoughts and afterthoughts, which, for precisely that reason, resulted in transgressive thinking and, naturally, ideas to be later polished. Nothing surprising for the people used to scientific reflection, and knowing that the scientific truth never erupts as a distilled potion and is, at first, a conquest made by using imperfect tools that will be perfected in the future.
We can say that José de Sousa Ramos created an actual school of mathematics, which is in itself a rare and notable achievement, like the one made half century back by the Portuguese eminent mathematician José Sebastião e Silva whose effects still last today.
The
fifteen doctorates that José de Sousa Ramos
supervised and the same number still in course at the moment of his
death prove
the vigour of his influence. It is up to his disciples, in proper time
and no
delay, to clarify and divulgate the works of his master, fixing this
works for
the future in a systematic and organized manner. The Portuguese
scientific
institutions are entrusted to the task and the honour of publishing the
works
of José de Sousa Ramos, for the benefit of the society and
community. We hope
that our scientific community is mature enough to take this desideratum
as a
duty.
I am sorry to hear of the passing of Professor Jose Sousa Ramos. The loss of any intellectual is a loss to the academic community. May his soul rest in peace. May God give the family the fortitude to bear the loss.
'Kale Oyedeji, Morehouse College
Dear Colleagues,
I am deeply grieved to learn of the death of Professor Jose Sousa Ramos and I send my deepest sympathy,
Yours sincerely
Josef Diblik
I am terribly sorry for the great loss in our community. I recommend that the ICDEA07 BE DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF PROFESSOR JOSE SOUSA RAMOS. FURTHERMORE I RECOMMEND THAT A TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIP BE FUNDED (from the funds collected from the membersip fees of the ISDE) IN MEMORY OF PROFESSOR JOSE SOUSA RAMOS FOR A YOUNG MATHEMATICIAN OR A GRADUATE STUDENT TO ATTEND FUTURE ICDEA MEETINGS.
With great sorrow,
Gerry Ladas
Dear Colleagues:
I am very sorry for hearing the sad news that Professor Jose Sousa Ramos passed away and lament the Professor Jose Sousa Ramos death.
Sincerely,
Jiang Zhu
I am very sorry to hear this sad news. I will pray to god for peace of Prof. Ramos' soal.
Kailash
I am verry sorry about this sad new and presend my condoleances to the family and the colleagues of the esteemed Professor Jose Sousa Ramos.
Sincerely
Jean Mawhin
Dear Colleagues,
I am sorry to hear of the death of Prof. Jose Sousa Ramos. I would like to express my condolences to Prof. Ramos's family, his friends, his students, and all of his colleagues.
Sincerely
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kemal Aydin
Selcuk University, Science and Art Faculty, Mathematics Department
Konya, Turkiye
Dear Colleagues,
It was with deep sorrow that we learned of the sudden death of Professor Jose Sousa Ramos, a great scientist and a wonderful man. I would like to express my sincere condolences to all of you and of course to Prof. Jose Sousa Ramos family.
Sincerely,
Malgosia Guzowska
University of Szczecin
The death of Professor Sousa Ramos is a great loss for all of us.
I never forget his gentle smile.
I would like to express my condolence to his family, friends and colleagues.
Sincerely,
Alya Rodkina