Valerie Isham
Appearance
Valerie S. Isham | |
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Born | 1947 (age 76–77) |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Imperial College London |
Awards | Guy Medal (Bronze, 1990) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University College London |
Doctoral advisor | David Cox[1] |
Valerie Susan Isham (born 1947) is a British applied probabilist and President of the Royal Statistical Society 2011–12.
Isham's research interests in include point processes, spatial processes, spatio-temporal processes and population processes. She went to Imperial College London (B.Sc., Ph.D.) where she was a student of a prominent statistician David Cox. She has been a professor of probability and statistics at University College London since 1992. She was the president of the Royal Statistical Society for 2011–2012. She was awarded its Guy Medal in Bronze in 1990.[2][3] In 2018 she received the Forder Lectureship from the London Mathematical Society and the New Zealand Mathematical Society.
References
- ^ Valerie Isham at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "RSS President". Royal Statistical Society. Archived from the original on 2012-03-17. Retrieved 2011-01-26.
- ^ "Professor Valerie Isham". Department of Statistics, University College London. Retrieved 2011-01-26.