Lukacs Distinguished Professor
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The Lukacs Distinguished Professor chair was established in 1989 by The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Bowling Green State University
in honor of Eugene Lukacs
, who came to Bowling Green with his colleagues Radha Laha
and Vijay Rohatgi in 1972 to establish the doctoral program in statistics. Eugene Lukacs
was Bowling Green's first Distinguished University Professor.
Each year an outstanding senior researcher in probability or statistics is invited to serve as the Eugene Lukacs Distinguished Visiting Professor during the academic year or a semester. The Lukacs Professors are invited based on their distinguished record of research in the application or theory of probability or statistics. The Lukacs professor typically collaborates with current faculty on research, participates in seminars and colloquia, and typically gives a graduate course or presents a series of related seminars. Lukacs Professors have organized Lukacs Symposia on a variety of topics in probability and statistics.
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green State University, often referred to as Bowling Green or BGSU, is a public, coeducational research university located in Bowling Green, Ohio, United States. The institution was granted a charter in 1910 by the State of Ohio as part of the Lowry Bill, which also established Kent State...
in honor of Eugene Lukacs
Eugene Lukacs
Eugene Lukacs was a Hungarian statistician born in Szombathely, notable for his work in characterization of distributions, stability theory, and being the author of Characteristic Functions, a classic textbook in the field.From six weeks after birth Lukacs lived in Vienna, Austria...
, who came to Bowling Green with his colleagues Radha Laha
Radha Laha
Radha Govind Laha was a probabilist, statistician, and mathematician, known for his work in probability theory, characteristic functions, and characterization of distributions. He was born in Calcutta, India and he was a student of C. R...
and Vijay Rohatgi in 1972 to establish the doctoral program in statistics. Eugene Lukacs
Eugene Lukacs
Eugene Lukacs was a Hungarian statistician born in Szombathely, notable for his work in characterization of distributions, stability theory, and being the author of Characteristic Functions, a classic textbook in the field.From six weeks after birth Lukacs lived in Vienna, Austria...
was Bowling Green's first Distinguished University Professor.
Each year an outstanding senior researcher in probability or statistics is invited to serve as the Eugene Lukacs Distinguished Visiting Professor during the academic year or a semester. The Lukacs Professors are invited based on their distinguished record of research in the application or theory of probability or statistics. The Lukacs professor typically collaborates with current faculty on research, participates in seminars and colloquia, and typically gives a graduate course or presents a series of related seminars. Lukacs Professors have organized Lukacs Symposia on a variety of topics in probability and statistics.
Lukacs Distinguished Visiting Professors
| Year | Professor | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 1990–1991 | Gabor J. Szekely Gábor J. Székely Gábor J. Székely is a Hungarian-American statistician/mathematician best known for introducing E-statistics or energy statistics [see E-statistics or Package energy in R ], e.g... |
Budapest Institute of Technology Budapest University of Technology and Economics The Budapest University of Technology and Economics , in hungarian abbreviated as BME, English official abbreviation BUTE, is the most significant University of Technology in Hungary and is also one of the oldest Institutes of Technology in the world, having been founded in 1782.-History:BME is... , Hungary |
| 1991–1992 | Tim Robertson | University of Iowa University of Iowa The University of Iowa is a public state-supported research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the oldest public university in the state. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees... |
| 1992–1993 | Samuel Kotz Samuel Kotz Samuel Kotz was a Professor and Research Scholar in the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science at The George Washington University since 1997 until his death on March 16, 2010... |
University of Maryland University of Maryland When the term "University of Maryland" is used without any qualification, it generally refers to the University of Maryland, College Park.University of Maryland may refer to the following:... |
| 1992–1993 | A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh | Carleton University Carleton University Carleton University is a comprehensive university located in the capital of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario. The enabling legislation is The Carleton University Act, 1952, S.O. 1952. Founded as a small college in 1942, Carleton now offers over 65 programs in a diverse range of disciplines. Carleton has... , Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| 1993–1994 | Malay Ghosh | University of Florida University of Florida The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906... |
| 1993–1994 | Anatoliy Skorokhod Anatoliy Skorokhod Anatoliy Volodymyrovych Skorokhod was a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician, and an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine from 1985 to his death in 2011.... |
Michigan State University Michigan State University Michigan State University is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act.MSU pioneered the studies of packaging,... |
| 1994–1995 | Abram Kagan | University of Maryland University of Maryland When the term "University of Maryland" is used without any qualification, it generally refers to the University of Maryland, College Park.University of Maryland may refer to the following:... |
| 1995–1996 | Vyacheslav Girko | Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences |
| 1996–1997 | Pranab K. Sen Pranab K. Sen Pranab Kumar Sen is a statistician, a professor of statistics and the Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.-Academic biography:... |
University of North Carolina University of North Carolina Chartered in 1789, the University of North Carolina was one of the first public universities in the United States and the only one to graduate students in the eighteenth century... |
| 1997–1998 | C. R. Rao C. R. Rao Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao FRS known as C R Rao is an Indian statistician. He is currently professor emeritus at Penn State University and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo. Rao has been honored by numerous colloquia, honorary degrees, and festschrifts and was awarded the US... |
Pennsylvania State University Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU, is a public research university with campuses and facilities throughout the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855, the university has a threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service... |
| 1998–1999 | G. P. Patil | Pennsylvania State University Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU, is a public research university with campuses and facilities throughout the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855, the university has a threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service... |
| 1999 Fall semester | Kanti V. Mardia Kantilal Mardia Kantilal Vardichand Mardia is a statistician specializing in directional statistics, multivariate analysis, geostatistics, statistical bioinformatics and statistical shape analysis. He was born in Sirohi, Rajasthan, India and now resides and works in Leeds... |
University of Leeds University of Leeds The University of Leeds is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England... |
| 1999 Fall semester | Raju Govindarajulu | University of Kentucky University of Kentucky The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public co-educational university and is one of the state's two land-grant universities, located in Lexington, Kentucky... |
| 2000 Spring semester | Nail Bakirov Nail Bakirov Nail Kutluzhanovich Bakirov was a prominent Russian statistician, professor and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Ufa, Russia, known for his work in asymptotic theory of mathematical statistics.... |
Russian Academy of Sciences Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences consists of the national academy of Russia and a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation as well as auxiliary scientific and social units like libraries, publishers and hospitals.... |
| 2000 March 13–17 | James Berger | Duke University Duke University Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B... |
| 2000 Fall semester | Nozer Singpurwalla | George Washington University George Washington University The George Washington University is a private, coeducational comprehensive university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States... |
| 2001 March 19–30 | Norbert Henze | University of Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 2001 April 1–5 | Bradley Efron Bradley Efron Bradley Efron is an American statistician best known for proposing the bootstrap resampling technique, which has had a major impact in the field of statistics and virtually every area of statistical application... |
Stanford University Stanford University The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San... |
| 2001 Fall semester | Yasunori Fujikoshi | Hiroshima University Hiroshima University , located in the Japanese cities of Higashihiroshima and Hiroshima, was established 1949 by the merger of a number of national educational institutions.-History:Under the National School Establishment Law, Hiroshima University was established on May 31, 1949... , Japan |
| 2002 Spring semester | Hung T. Nguyen | New Mexico State University New Mexico State University New Mexico State University at Las Cruces , is a major land-grant university in Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States... |
| 2002 April 8–12 | Peter J. Bickel Peter J. Bickel Peter John Bickel is an American statistician, Professor of Statistics in University of California, Berkeley, who is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences... |
University of California-Berkeley |
| 2003 March 28-April 2 | C. C. Heyde Chris Heyde Christopher Charles "Chris" Heyde AM was a prominent Australian statistician who did leading research in probability, stochastic processes and statistics.... |
Columbia University Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the... and Australian National University Australian National University The Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students... |
| 2003 Spring semester | Damodar Shanbhag | University of Sheffield University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield is a research university based in the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. It is one of the original 'red brick' universities and is a member of the Russell Group of leading research intensive universities... , U.K. |
| 2003 Fall semester | Eugene Seneta Eugene Seneta Eugene Seneta is Professor Emeritus, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, known for his work in probability and non-negative matrices, applications and history. He is known for the variance gamma model in financial mathematics... |
University of Sydney University of Sydney The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania... , Australia |
| 2004 Spring semester | Leandro Pardo | Complutense University of Madrid, Spain |
| 2005 Spring semester | N. Balakrishnan | McMaster University McMaster University McMaster University is a public research university whose main campus is located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land in the residential neighbourhood of Westdale, adjacent to Hamilton's Royal Botanical Gardens... , Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
| 2006 May 30-June 3 | Ioannis Karatzas | Columbia University Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the... |
| 2006 June 12-June 15 | Donald St. P. Richards | Pennsylvania State University Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU, is a public research university with campuses and facilities throughout the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855, the university has a threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service... |
| 2007 Spring semester | M. S. Srivastava | University of Toronto University of Toronto The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada... , Ontario, Canada |
| Year | Lukacs Professor | Symposium | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990–1991 | Gabor J. Szekely Gábor J. Székely Gábor J. Székely is a Hungarian-American statistician/mathematician best known for introducing E-statistics or energy statistics [see E-statistics or Package energy in R ], e.g... |
First Lukacs Symposium, March 1991 | Probability and Statistics |
| 1991–1992 | Tim Robertson and Sam Kotz | Second Lukacs Symposium, March 1992 | Order Restricted Statistical Inference |
| 1992–1993 | A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh | Third Lukacs Symposium - March 1993 | Revival of Distributions and Regression Quantiles |
| 1993–1994 | Malay Ghosh and Anatoliy Skorokhod Anatoliy Skorokhod Anatoliy Volodymyrovych Skorokhod was a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician, and an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine from 1985 to his death in 2011.... |
Fourth Lukacs Symposium - March 1994 | Infinite Dimensional Randomly Perturbed Dynamical Systems |
| 1994–1995 | Abram Kagan | Fifth Lukacs Symposium - March 1995 | Statistical Inference in Semiparametric Models |
| 1995–1996 | Vyacheslav Girko | Sixth Lukacs Symposium - March 1996 | Multidimensional Statistical Analysis and Theory of Random Matrices |
| 1996–1997 | Pranab K. Sen Pranab K. Sen Pranab Kumar Sen is a statistician, a professor of statistics and the Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.-Academic biography:... |
Seventh Lukacs Symposium - April 1997 | (1999) Robustness in Multivariate and Survival Models |
| 1997–1998 | C. R. Rao C. R. Rao Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao FRS known as C R Rao is an Indian statistician. He is currently professor emeritus at Penn State University and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo. Rao has been honored by numerous colloquia, honorary degrees, and festschrifts and was awarded the US... |
Eighth Lukacs Symposium — April 1998 | Statistics for the 21st Century |
| 1998–1999 | G. P. Patil | Ninth Lukacs Symposium — April 1999 | Frontiers of Environmental and Ecological Statistics for the 21st Century |
| 2005 | N. Balakrishnan | April 15–16, 2005 May 14, 2005 |
"Statistical Distributions and Applications" "Ordered Data and Applications" |
External links
- Statistics for the 21st Century, 1998 Lukacs Symposium, organized by C. R. RaoC. R. RaoCalyampudi Radhakrishna Rao FRS known as C R Rao is an Indian statistician. He is currently professor emeritus at Penn State University and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo. Rao has been honored by numerous colloquia, honorary degrees, and festschrifts and was awarded the US...
. - Frontiers of Environmental and Ecological Statistics for the 21st Century: Synergistic Challenges, Opportunities and Directions for Statistics, Ecology, Environment, and Society 1999 Lukacs Symposium convened by G. P. Patil.