I just talked to Georgia a few days ago in our weekly meetings and it was heart broken to think she is no longer with us. Georgia has been an invaluable mentor and inspiration in my life. I first heard her 2014 Noether Lecture when I was a graduate student. Her talk was beautifully written and delivered. She was calm, clear, confident, and absolutely brilliant while being humble, and I thought to myself, ”I want to be like her when I grow up!” I had a chance of getting to know Georgia more through the Women in Noncommutative Algebra and Representation Theory (WINART) workshops and we have been meeting weekly since mid 2018. I truly enjoyed my years of knowing and working with Georgia, the math we have done and the times when we took the train to York for sightseeing or when we hung out in Berkeley or Madison. Ingenious, competent, mathematically talented, detail oriented, positive, kind, loving, warm, patient, supportive, genuine, humble, witty sense of humor,…those are not enough to describe Georgia. She was truly a remarkable person, both personally and mathematically. I am so glad our lives have crossed and I have learned so much from her. “Adios!” — as she always said at the end of our Zoom meetings with a big smile on her face. We will miss her dearly.
