Laurent Cavalier, Professor of Mathematics at the Aix-Marseille Université, France, passed away on January 13, 2014, after being operated on for appendicitis in a hospital in Marseille, France. He was only 42 years old. Laurent Cavalier was born on October 13, 1971. After studying pure mathematics at the University of…

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M.J. (Susie) Bayarri passed away on August 19, 2014, in Valencia, Spain, after an 18-month battle with a brain tumor. Susie was a Fellow of the IMS and one of the most prominent Bayesian statisticians in the world. Susie was born on September 16, 1956 in Valencia, Spain. She studied…

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H. A. David (photo courtesy of Iowa State University) Herbert Aron David, Emeritus Distinguished Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University, Ames, passed away on July 14, 2014, in Columbia, Maryland, USA. At Iowa State he served as Director and Head of the Statistical Laboratory and Department…

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Prominent Polish statistician Witold Klonecki, born on September 28, 1930, died on August 10, 2012 at the age of 82. Witold Klonecki received a master degree in mathematics from the University of Poznań in 1955 and a PhD degree from the University of Wrocław in 1963. His PhD dissertation, “On…

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Contributing Editor Xiao-Li Meng writes: In addition to increasingly frequent requests to predict the future (see the last XL-Files), another sure sign of “professional aging” is being asked to talk about leadership. Just this past summer alone, I served on ICSA–KISS and IMS–NRC panels on leadership (while still sharpening my…

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