Obituary
With profound sorrow, we share the passing of Professor Ričardas Zitikis on April 9, 2025. He was 62 years of age.
Ričardas was born on July 13, 1962, in Lithuania, to Edvardas Zitikis and Irena Zitikiene. Ričardas was awarded his PhD degree in 1988 by Vilnius University in Lithuania and…
On March 31st of this year, our community lost the energetic and creative force that was Sayan Mukherjee. Sayan passed away unexpectedly at the age of 54 in Leipzig, Germany, where he was a Humboldt Professor at the University of Leipzig and a Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for…
Simos Meintanis, who passed away on February 14, 2025, was a Professor of Statistics & Econometrics in the Department of Economic Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Simos was born on January 1, 1959, in Athens, Greece. He studied Mathematics and Statistics in Greece (Athens University…
It is with heavy hearts that we share the news of the passing of Eugene M. Laska, PhD. Gene Laska was Research Professor of Psychiatry and Population Health, Division of Biostatistics, at New York University. Before moving full time to NYU in 2015 he served as Research Scientist and Director…
Thomas G. Kurtz, renowned for his work on Markov processes and stochastic analysis, passed away on April 19, 2025, at the age of 83. He was born on July 14, 1941, in Kansas City, and earned a BA in mathematics from the University of Missouri in 1963 and a PhD…