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Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 07:30:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: "W. Stephen Wilson" <wsw@math.jhu.edu>
To: dmd1@lehigh.edu

Many who have visited Japan met Professor Akie Tamamura.
I met her first in 1980 and saw her on most of my
subsequent visits to Japan.  Most recently she was at
the Nishida conference last summer so it was a shock
to hear of her passing.  Nori Minami kindly tracked
down a colleague to write a short obituary for her.

Sincerely,

Steve

W. Stephen Wilson                   (410) 516-7413
Department of Mathematics      FAX  (410) 516-5549
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD 21218               wsw@math.jhu.edu

http://www.math.jhu.edu/~wsw/

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Obituary for Professor Akie Tamamura

With great sorrow we inform you of the sudden death of
Professor Akie Tamamura, at the age of 58, on 5 November 2003.
A memorial service was held on 6 - 7 November in Okayama, Japan

Professor Tamamura has studied on the J-groups of the stunted lens
spaces and recently, has worked on rational homotopy theory, mainly
the classification of elliptic graded commutative algebras.

She was a professor at Okayama University of Science
for more than 10 years and also served as the chief of
Department of Applied Mathematics for 3 years.
While she was one of the members of the department,
she invited positively many foreign topologists to the university.
We suppose that they have felt her human warmth via the hospitality.

It is still really hard to believe we shall never see her again.
We will always remember her, her kindnesses and many smiles.

                                            Yours sincerely,
                                            Katushiko Kuribayashi
                                           (kuri@math.shinshu-u.ac.jp)
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Faculty of Science
Shinshu University
Matsumoto, Nagano 390-8621, Japan