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Professor Da Ruan passed away unexpectedly. I received the news from an email when I was about to send a manuscript to him. I could not believe my eyes and tears streamed down my face. How desperately I hoped that it was not true!
Prof. Da Ruan and I had not met each other until the ISKE hosted by Southwest Jiaotong University in 2007. We had been communicating by email before our first meeting there and he had always been patient and serious about consulting and seeking help of a doctoral student like me. We met face to face when he came to register while I was a volunteer for the ISKE. He was so energetic and with such a good memory that he mentioned to me that I was one of the doctoral students of Southwest Jiaotong University and that he remembered what we had discussed in our emails.
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Zou, L. (2013). Recalling Professor Da Ruan. In: Lu, J., Kerre, E. (eds) A Tribute to Prof. Dr. Da Ruan. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30307-4_46
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