Obituary
William S. Cleveland, the Shanti S. Gupta Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Courtesy Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University, passed away on March 27, 2026, at the age of 83. A pioneering statistician and visionary scholar, Bill transformed the way generations of researchers think about data, graphics, and scientific…
On December 28, 2025 our distinguished friend and colleague Stephen Portnoy passed away at the age of 83. Stephen was a founding member of the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an influential contributor to the international research community of mathematical statistics throughout his long…
On November 27, 2025, the distinguished mathematician and outstanding teacher Klaus Krickeberg passed away at the age of 96. His broad scientific interests concerned the fields of analysis, martingales, stochastic geometry and point processes, and moreover, epidemiology and public health. To him, mathematics was a reflection of reality, in which…
Having retired from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (now Sorbonne Université) in 2013, after spending his entire academic career there, Paul Deheuvels sadly passed away last January. Son of the French mathematician René Deheuvels, Paul was born in Istanbul, where his father was teaching at the French Lycée. He…
Professor Valentin Vladimirovich Petrov passed away on 31 May, 2025. He was born on 10 February, 1931, into the family of a physician in Kholomky in the Pskov region of Russia. In 1952 he finished his studies at the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of the University of Leningrad (St.…