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March 31, 2026
Jane-Ling Wang is Distinguished Research Professor in Statistics at the University of California, Davis. She obtained her PhD in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1982 under the guidance of Jack Kiefer and Lucien Le Cam, and joined the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University…
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.…