A Collection of Memorial Messages
devoted to Prof. Paul Tseng

We put messages from Paul's friends on this webpage.
Please send your message, even one or two sentences, to the ORB Editor Nobuo Yamashita (nobuo@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp) via e-mail. Please write "message devoted to Pual" in subject line and your massage in body text. You do not need write a letter to the editor.

I am Professor Tseng's third Ph.D student. In my memory, he is a wonderful advisor in every aspects in my life. During my Ph.D course, he sometimes gave a hard time. I hated him not to understand my situation but later realized that he did it for me and my future. He was really concerning about me even after my graduation.

I felt that he was like my father, uncle, or big brother. My son (Paul Yun) was named after him. I remember that he did willingly paly with my son when he invited my family at his house in December 2006 as if it was yesterday.

I received his email (Dear Sangwoon, I have a flight to catch in a few hours, but will look into this after I get back next week but maybe more likely after ISMP. Paul) on August 12 2009. I did not realize this was the last one.

I would not write this memorial article for Professor Tseng since I wish that he will be back soon.

Sangwoon

School of Computational Sciences
Korea Institute for Advanced Study

I knew Paul in 1996 in a conference in Beijing. I remember he was planning to cycle all the way from Beijing to Shanghai but Prof. Han Jiye persuaded him to give up this crazy idea. He then came to Shanghai by train and paid a visit to Shanghai University (Jiading campus). He arrived in Shanghai train station in late evening and took a motorcycle (no license driver) to the bus station. It can be imagined that he must have been over-charged (he told me later he was charged some 100 yuan). I saw a young backpacker with healthy and dark skin came to me when I was waiting for him in the main gate of the campus. We then walked to the campus guest house while he insisted to take the backpack by himself. I remember he gave a talk in our dept and we went to the Bund by bus after the talk. We had some nice conversation during the local tour. He is truly a nice person. Xiaoling Sun School of Management, Fudan University

Paul and Xiaoling in October, 1996, Beijing

Paul was a wonderful mentor as well as a very good friend. I still remember (vividly) one of our long conversations in 1996 when I was about to start my career as a researcher. I confided to him how frustrated I was when I found that some results I just discovered had been published. He told me with a typical Paul's smile something like this: ``Doing research is just like climbing a mountain. The route is difficult and is never straight. You feel disappointed when you finally reach the top and found that it has been explored by someone else. But also remember you have seen different flowers along your way to the top.'' Indeed, I have ever since seen many different ``flowers'' in my academic career.

Houduo Qi
School of Mathematics
University of Southampton.