Lawrence Sirovich

I first met Larry many years ago at an APS conference. I didn´t realize it at the time, but he would profoundly change my thinking about how to do science. What I learned from Larry was this: "The current dogma may or may not be correct, but we have a right and a duty to challenge it since it´s often wrong!". I fondly remember meetings with Larry and Bruce Knight at Rockefeller. During these long meetings, they would ask tough, profound questions that made me realize that I didn´t actually...

I met Larry when I joined Applied Mathematics at Brown as an assistant professor in 1982. He was a mentor and advocate for me in the department and we had common interests in fluid dynamics and related topics. I will always be grateful for his support and advice. Tuesdays were the days for the fluids seminars usually followed by dinner with the speaker. There were always interesting discussions. During the days of the week he was at Brown he would invariably fit in a game of tennis. Larry...

When I arrived at Brown to pursue my PhD in Applied Mathematics, I didn´t yet know who would become my advisor. In that first year, as I was searching and sorting through several options, taking reading courses with experts in different fields, four things about Larry stood out immediately: He could take on any scientific problem - even far outside his specialty - and within minutes offer insightful, elegant, and mathematically creative ways to approach it. I knew I would be inspired by...