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Gene Golub, 1932 - 2007 passed away on November 16, at the Stanford University Hospital. He was 75 years old.

Golub returned home to Stanford recently from a trip to Hong Kong and Xiamen: see

http://www.math.hkbu.edu.hk/wsmsps/photo/

Based on Cleve Moler: "He was planning to leave again Tuesday on another trip, this one to Zurich where the ETH was to honor him with a special degree.
Instead, Sunday night he went to the emergency room because he was "feeling lousy". On Tuesday, he was found to have AML, acute myelogenous leukemia, a form of cancer that affects the white blood cells. This is a potentially curable disease and he was expecting to begin chemotherapy today. But serious complications developed suddenly over night."

Gene was so kind to accept our invitation to speak in The 3rd East Asia SIAM Conference held from 2-5 November 2007 in Xiamen, China. He was the first speaker of the conference, see

http://www.math.hkbu.edu.hk/easiam_Xiamen/

This might be his final conference speech. He also attended the business meeting of the East Asia SIAM Section and gave us many useful advices and suggestions.

Gene has wonderful connection with Chinese computational mathematics community.
He visited China many times; trained many students from mainland China and Hong Kong. He was very supportive to activities in China; and was associate editor of Journal of Computational Mathematics
(http://www.global-sci.org/jcm) and Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications (NM-TMA) http://www.global-sci.org/nmtma; both journals are based in China.

We are deeply sad that Prof Golub has gone. We will miss him.

Tao Tang
Hong Kong Baptist University