Vijayakumar Sinnathurai May 17, 1953 – March 31, 2017 I ﬁrst met Vijay as a Ph.D. student in 1984 in my numerical methods class while I was teaching in the Civil Engineering department at the University of Toronto. He im- mediately stood out as a brilliant mathemacian. He earned his Ph.D. as a chemical Engineer, but he was always a mathemacian at heart. He became one of the early mem- bers of “The Rock Group” in the Galbraith Building. We worked on the Boundary Element Method together, resulng in what I consider some of my best research. Vijay joined us at Rocscience in the beginning years, contribung to many useful soﬅware developments over his me with us. Vijay always loved learning and there is a story that I like to share about him. There is a maximum number of 63 books that a one can borrow from the UofT library system. He was usually at that max, having to return at least one book to check out a new one. Every newly published book on mathemacs made it to Vijay’s desk. He was very proud of his son, Sanahan. Sadly, Vijay will miss his son’s undergraduate commencement from McGill, which will take place in a few months from now. Vijay was a friend, respected colleague and a very generous person. He will be missed by all of us at Rocscience. John Curran, CEO & Founder, Rocscience Inc.

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Vijayakumar SinnathuraiMay 17, 1953 – March 31, 2017

I first met Vijay as a Ph.D. student in 1984 in my numerical methods class while I was teaching in the Civil Engineering department at the University of Toronto. He im-mediately stood out as a brilliant mathematician. He earned his Ph.D. as a chemical Engineer, but he was always a mathematician at heart.

He became one of the early mem-bers of “The Rock Group” in the Galbraith Building. We worked on the Boundary Element Method together, resulting in what I consider some of my best research. Vijay joined us at Rocscience in the beginning years, contributing to many useful software developments over his time with us.

Vijay always loved learning and there is a story that I like to share about him. There is a maximum number of 63 books that a one can borrow from the UofT library system. He was usually at that max, having to return at least one book to check out a new one. Every newly published book on mathematics made it to Vijay’s desk.

He was very proud of his son, Sanahan. Sadly, Vijay will miss his son’s undergraduate commencement from McGill, which will take place in a few months from now. Vijay was a friend, respected colleague and a very generous person. He will be missed by all of us at Rocscience.

John Curran, CEO & Founder, Rocscience Inc.