Professor and Mrs Pister with children: Francis (2nd from right), Therese, Anita, Jacinta, Claire, Kris.
Retirement party for Ms. Billie Greene by UCSC Chancellor Pister and Mrs Rita Pister in 1996.
On the inset photo, Ms. Bille Greene wrote:
“In spite of the long hours and demands of administrative work, Karl Pister could (and did) have fun. One of my favorite images of him is from a dinner hosted by Chancellor and Mrs. Pister in my honor in 1996. Chancellor Pister was a “good sport” and had a wonderful sense of humor. He (and all the guests) was wearing a strand of pearls and pearl earrings in recognition of the “iconic” pearls I was famous for wearing.”
Grade 3 students from
The late
Professor Juan Simo (on a knee chair), Professor Robert (Bob) Taylor (3rd from left), Professor Woody Ju (right), Professor Loc Vu-Quoc (left), at Bob's house, circa 1985.
“The photo shows me on the mountain pass of the ‘
The jersey was from 2007, which was about when my interest in road cycling grew and, at the same time, I first came in contact with Karl Pister's work.”
Discussing the
In particular, they connected the works of the Austrian school on thermal stresses, represented by Ernst Melan, Heinz Parkus and Franz Ziegler, and the
The resulting material law was implemented in a 2-D geometrically-exact beam (see the above flying spaghetti that started an industry of simulating flying large-deformable structures), and in a beam formed by 3-D solid elements for comparison.
Professor Takewaki, his wife and son, at Professor Pister's home, Lafayette, California, in July 1990.
Professor Takewaki and Professor Pister,
At a graduation ceremony in 1987 on the Berkeley campus.
Dean Shankar Shastry, Professor Karl Pister, Dr. Sheila Humphreys, Dr. Gary May, son of former Dean Ernest Kuh, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley, March 2017.
Dr. Sheila Humphreys (blue jacket in front), along with alumnus Gary May (PhD ‘91, gray suit in the center), receiving the
Dr. Paula Hawthorn (right) of the Lawrence Berkeley Lab, and Marina Mann of the Federal Reserve Bank (left), Women in Engineering Conference, UC Berkeley in 1984. Credit: Peg Skorpinski
A retirement party at the Faculty Club on the Berkeley campus in the 1980s.
Dr. Ramm, working as a postdoc in his cubicle in
Professor Karl S. Pister presenting a picture award during his dinner speech at a conference in Bregenz, Austria, in May 2001 on the occasion of Professor Ramm's 60th birthday.
Professor Pister and Professor Ramm on a field trip to the Golden Gate Bridge in July 2013.
Professor Lütolf-Carroll (2nd from left) and her Berkeley study-group friends, left to right: Dan Chitty (Valedictorian of her class of 1977, who later earned a MS degree in Civil Engineering at Berkeley), Patty McNamee (her best friend and vice president of the Society of Women Engineers, when she was president), Alan Hernried (who later earned a Berkeley PhD degree in Civil Engineering).
Professor Lütolf-Carroll and her study group at the graduation ceremony in the Greek Theater.
Prof. Lütolf-Carroll in a turnaround shift on the pipestill unit at the Exxon Benicia refinery in 1980.
Dean Karl Pister was looking at Professor Agogino hooding her first PhD student, Pramod Jain, in May 1989 at the Greek Theater on the Berkeley campus.
Pramod Jain's dissertation was titled: “A Vector Quantization Multistart Method for Global Optimization”.
Professor Agogino signed Corie Lynn Cobb's doctoral dissertation in 2008 with title: “Case-based Reasoning for MEMS Design Synthesis”
Professor Alice Agogino and her graduate students and undergraduate researchers, circa 2016
Chair-of-the-Board Tom Zuckerman (left), Pam Eibeck, Karl Pister, Stanford President Hennessy.
Karl Pister speaking at Pam Eibeck's Inauguration Ceremony, Mar 2010, Stockton, California.
President Eibeck's Inauguration (left to right): Pam Eibeck, Karl Pister, John Hennessy (President of Stanford), Bob Corkern (Regent), Morrison England (Regent), and Connie Callahan (Regent).
The 65th birthday celebration for the late Professor John Argyris (left), seen shaking hands with Professor Pister, with Professor Thomas Hughes (sitting second from right, clapping hands), the late Professor Ray Clough (far left, at the edge of the photo, behind Argyris, in partial profile, clapping hands), the late Professor O.C. Zienkiewicz (gray hair, between Argyris and the flowers, with his lower face hidden behind the backhead of someone sitting in front).
Ref: R.W. Clough and E.L. Wilson,
When we started the Karl Pister special issue, I was looking for Professor Ted Belytschko to invite him, and instead found an obituary for Ted, who had passed away some six years prior, in 2014, after a long illness. I then told Professor Shaofan Li that Professor Tom Hughes would miss Ted a lot, since they were very close friends.
Later, I was looking for photos of old Berkeley engineering buildings for possible use, and found those photos in Professor Robert (Bob) Taylor's talk slides “
When I later used a photo of Tom (above left), cropped from a photo in Bob's talk slides, as an example to ask participants for their old photos, Tom said his photo came from a photo with Bob (middle) and Ted (right) at the FENOMECH 1978 conference. The friendship of Tom and Ted reminded me of the passage in St Exupéry's
Some ten months later, on Professor Pister's birthday, 2021 Jun 27, I searched the Web, but did not find the photo using different combinations of the three names (Tom, Bob, Ted) and FENOMECH 1978 until I looked for “
Stockton, California, Summer 2017
This photo was taken in Professor Robert Taylor's office on the 7th floor in