Malvin Carl Teich, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at Columbia University and Boston University. He is the coauthor of Fundamentals of Photonics (with B. E. A. Saleh) and Fractal-Based Point Processes (with S. B. Lowen). He is a Fellow of the AAAS, APS, ASA, IEEE, OPTICA, SPIE, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is the recipient of the IEEE Browder Thompson Memorial Prize, the IEEE Morris Leeds Award, the Commemorative Medal of Palacký University, and the Charles DeLisi Award of Boston University.