Obituary
Dr. Anant Madhav Kshirsagar, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biostatistics, School of Health Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, died on June 20, 2023, at Ann Arbor. His career was exceptional from the beginning. He passed his matriculation examination at the age of 12 from Sangli, a small town…
Alan Geoffrey Hawkes died on 9 November 2023. He was Emeritus Professor at the Hawkes Centre for Empirical Finance at the School of Management of Swansea University in Wales.
Swansea University has a webpage with a short, but comprehensive, biography: https://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/a.g.hawkes/. There we learn that he joined Swansea in…
It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our dear friend Johannes Ledolter who was a Professor of Statistics and Business at the University of Iowa and Emeritus Professor at the University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria. Johannes passed away peacefully at his home in Iowa…
Anirban DasGupta shares his memories of Shanti Gupta, a “quiet scholar, architect, and shepherd”:
Shanti Gupta devoted 40 years of his life to the foundation and nurturing of the statistics department at Purdue University, USA. He was a selfless soldier of the profession, an effective and yet gentle fighter. He…
R.V. Ramamoorthi passed away on November 22, 2023, at the relatively young age of 73. Known as RVR to many, he was on the faculty at Michigan State University for 37 years. He retired voluntarily in 2019 and moved with his wife Deepa (whom he married in 1985) to Bengaluru,…