Professor Philippe Smets passed away on Monday night November the 14th, at home with his family around. He had been suffering from a brain tumor for several months. For those interested in uncertainty modeling and handling, he was an outstanding researcher in this area, in some sense a guiding light. Philippe Smets was born in Brussels (Belgium) on November 27, 1938. He first received a medical...

Louis (Lou) J. Guillette, Jr., one of the most influential research scientists in the field of environmental health, died 6 August 2015 at the age of 60. Lou had been battling non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma for almost a decade, but his passing, caused by bacterial pneumonia, came as a shock to everyone who knew him. He was an extremely energetic man with a passion for the natural environ ment. He revel...

We develop a Priestley-style duality theory for different classes of algebras having a bilattice reduct. A similar investigation has already been realized by B. Mobasher, D. Pigozzi, G. Slutzki and G. Voutsadakis, but only from an abstract category-theoretic point of view. In the present work we are instead interested in a concrete study of the topological spaces that correspond to bilattices a...

Reconnection is a major commonality of solar and magnetospheric physics. It was conjectured by Giovanelli in 1946 to explain particle acceleration in solar flares near magnetic neutral points. Since than it has been broadly applied in space physics including magnetospheric physics. In a special way this is due to Harry Petschek, who in 1994 published his ground breaking solution for a 2D magnet...

It was a privilege for me to first meet Umberto Veronesi, in a uniquely spacious office of the Milan ‘Istituto dei Tumori’ in 1976, as it corresponded to his position as Institute Director and accomplished surgeon and clinical researcher. Knowing of his impressive list of worldwide accomplishments, I wondered whether he could spare some minutes for an informal visit by a medical oncologist repr...

R Kissling, a pillar of US Center for Disease Control (CDC) infectious diseases programs through an era of great programmatic and institutional growth (1947– 1973), died November 13, 2013 at his home in North Carolina. Through his years at CDC, Bob led investigations of great diversity and impact, always with the same sense of openness, integrity, composure, and respect for everyone involved. T...

ERIK Duval, full professor at the Computer Science Department of KU Leuven, passed away on 12 March, 2016, after a two-year illness with cancer, T-ALL Leukaemia. He was 50. During these two years, he was still supervising his team and as always sharing his great thoughts with all of us. He was optimistic, as always, and we were all optimistic for him. It was only in the last few weeks that unex...

1 Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 2 Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom, 3 The Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 4 School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University Bremen...