Summary
Valerie Susan Isham (born 1947) is a British applied probabilist and former President of the Royal Statistical Society. Isham's research interests in include point processes, spatial processes, spatio-temporal processes and population processes.
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 |
Education and career edit
Isham went to Imperial College London (B.Sc., Ph.D.) where she was a student of statistician David Cox.[1] She has been a professor of probability and statistics at University College London since 1992.
Book edit
Isham is the coauthor with Cox of the book Point Processes (Chapman & Hall, 1980).[2]
Recognition edit
Isham was the president of the Royal Statistical Society for 2011–2012. She was awarded its Guy Medal in Bronze in 1990.[3][4] In 2018 she received the Forder Lectureship from the London Mathematical Society and the New Zealand Mathematical Society.
References edit
- ^ Valerie Isham at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Reviews of Point Processes: J. D. Biggins (1981), Math. Gaz., doi:10.2307/3615757, JSTOR 3615757; D. J. Daley, Zbl 0441.60053; Fergus Daly (1991), JRSSA, doi:10.2307/2983051, JSTOR 2983051; Paul T. Holmes (1983), JASA, doi:10.2307/2288675, JSTOR 2288675; David Vere-Jones (1982), MR0598033
- ^ "RSS President". Royal Statistical Society. Archived from the original on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
- ^ "Professor Valerie Isham". Department of Statistics, University College London. Retrieved 26 January 2011.