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March 31, 2026
David Blei is the William B. Ransford Professor of Statistics and Computer Science at Columbia University, USA. He studies probabilistic machine learning and Bayesian statistics, including theory, algorithms, and application. David has received several awards, including the 2013 ACM Prize in Computing, a 2017 Guggenheim fellowship, 2019 Simons Investigator Award,…
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.…
Arak M. Mathai, an eminent mathematician and statistician whose work markedly shaped modern multivariate analysis, special functions, and applied probability, passed away on December 20, 2025, after contending with a cancer that was as swift as it was unforeseen, bequeathing a legacy of enduring resonance and global influence.
Born in…