It is with great sorrow, we received the message that Professor Lars Arge has passed away on December 23rd, 2020, at the age of just 53. His wife Alice and the closest family was with him.
Lars finally has peace after battling kidney cancer for several years. Lars has been very open about his fight in both his personal communication and social media updates. We have witnessed both positive and negative news. Lars faced his cancer with a scientific approach to understanding both illness and treatment options.
His passing is a great loss to the Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, as well as to us personally as colleagues who have benefitted from Lars’s excellent and internationally renowned research contributions within Algorithms and Data Structures, as well as his many ideas on how to build a world-class department ... (read the full obituary by Kaj Grønbæk, Head of Computer Science)
"Lars was a brilliant researcher, a gifted leader, and a true visionary. He was someone who would brighten a room just by entering it, and his laugh was always infectious. He will be missed." Michael T. Goodrich
Left: Lars Arge and Michael T. Goodrich: January 2018, at an American Football playoff game between the New Orleans Saints and Carolina Panthers (Lars' favorite American Football team)
In the motivation for conferring the degree the Doctorates Board highlights Lars Arges's outstanding achievements in the theoretical foundations of I/Oefficient algorithms, making him a leading expert worldwide, as well as his activities in creating infrastructure for fundamental algorithmic massivedata research and its applications.
Lars Arge and Michael T. Goodrich at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
