Dear Firedrake community, Below is the sad announcement the Hans Petter Langtangen has died. In addition to Marie's eloquent words below. I'd like to point out that Hans Petter was exceptionally dedicated to supporting and advancing the development of younger scientists. I and several others on this list benefited from his advice and support at various critical career points. We will miss him. Regards, David ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Marie E. Rognes <meg@simula.no> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 at 22:21 Subject: [fenics-dev] Hans Petter Langtangen (1962-2016) To: fenics-dev <fenics-dev@googlegroups.com> Dear colleagues and friends, I am very sad to inform you that our friend, colleague and supporter Professor Hans Petter Langtangen passed away yesterday, on October 10th 2016, after an extended fight with cancer. Among his many achievements, Hans Petter was a Fellow at Simula Research Laboratory, a Professor of computer science at the University of Oslo, Editor-in-Chief of SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing, and Director of the Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Computing. Hans Petter has been a crucial and long standing supporter, contributor, mentor, and advocate for the FEniCS Project and the FEniCS community. Many of us also know him for his books on scientific programming, Python, and partial differential equations. Hans Petter was truly passionate about his work and intensified his efforts, completing multiple new books in particular, after becoming ill. Hans Petter was an unusually inspirational and visionary man, always providing enthusiasm, encouragement, inspiration and insight. He will be deeply missed by his family, friends and colleagues all over the world. Simula has organized a memorial website for Hans Petter where we invite you to post condolences and memories: hpl-memorial.simula.no We will also find other ways to honor his memory in the times to come. Sincerely yours, Marie Rognes -- Marie E. Rognes Head of Biomedical Computing Department, Simula Research Laboratory Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo Email: meg@simula.no Web: http://home.simula.no/~meg/ Cell: +47 45 66 23 96 Skype: m.e.rognes -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "fenics-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to fenics-dev+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to fenics-dev@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.