| Abstract Scope |
At times like this it is always informative to ask the following sort of question: When Easo was a newly arrived MSE graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania way back then, was It obvious to us faculty that he would eventually attain his present status in our field? During this talk I will describe his intellectual (and, yes, his physical) characteristics back in those days and attempt to answer that question, (but not necessarily with a totally straight face). I will do this by reviewing two clear examples from his many significant publications to show how he has chosen his projects and how he thinks about them, and then finally, I will discuss the special characteristics that, in my opinion, make him the superbly productive, charming, and supportive colleague that we all know him to be. |