Our beloved Aya passed away / איה היקרה שלנו נפטרה

איה האהובה שלנו הלכה לעולמה ב-20 בפברואר 2019. החדשות העציבו וזעזעו את בני משפחתה, ידידיה ורבים מעמיתיה, תלמידיה, מיועצים במעבדה הסטטיסטית בטכניון, ועוד רבים אחרים שאיתם היו לה קשרים חמים של שנים ארוכות.
בלוג זה הוקם בשנת 2008 כדי להנציח את פרישתה של איה מהטכניון. היא שמחה לקרוא את ההודעות היפות שנכתבו על ידי רבים כל כך מאלה שהיא נגעה בחייהם.
בזמן עצוב זה החלטנו לפתוח מחדש את הבלוג לכתיבת סיפורים לזכרה, כאנדרטה וירטואלית. אתם מוזמנים "לשמוע" על חייה ותרומותיה הנפלאות של איה ולשתף בסיפוריכם שלכם

Our beloved Aya passed away on Feb 20, 2019. The news has saddened and shocked her family, friends and many of her colleagues, past students, mentees, advisees at the Technion statistics lab, and so many more with whom Aya had wonderful life-long relationships.
This blog was created in 2008 to commemorate Aya's retirement from the Technion. She was delighted to read the lovely posts contributed by so many of those whose lives she touched.
In this sad moment of Aya's passing away, we decided to re-open the blog for posts, serving as a virtual memorial. We invite everyone to "hear" about Aya's life and wonderful contributions, and to share your stories.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Best wishes to Aya from the Kettenring family

Hi Aya!

Your impending retirement brings back fond memories of the Cohen family visits, long and short, to Bell Labs and Bellcore. Our shared interests in applied statistics created a strong bond but even more important were our fun times together, which always included a parade of stories about our growing families. This was topped off for Pat and me by your hosting in Haifa of our daughter, Karin, during her internship in Israel. (Karin has just begun an appointment as an assistant professor at Utah State University in Logan, UT.)

This past week I was reviewing some of our ancient joint work on visualizing distances among objects in ways that reveal clusters in multivariate data. Work of this kind is still important. After your retirement, you should have more time to reflect on the big problems in life, such as this one!

Having preceded you in retirement by several years, I am sure you will find much fulfillment and more time for things that are at the top of your priority list.

Pat and I send along our best wishes and look forward to our next get together.

With warmest regards,

Jon

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