Chris Heyde
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". Christopher Charles Heyde (20 April 1939, in Sydney – 6 March 2008, in Canberra) was a prominent Australian statistician who did leading research in probability, stochastic processes and statistics.
Heyde was a professor at Columbia University, the University of Melbourne, CSIRO, University of Manchester, University of Sheffield, Michigan State University, and The Australian National University, Canberra.[1][2][3][4]
In 2008, Heyde died of metastatic melanoma.
Honours
- 1972 – Member of the International Statistical Institute
- 1973 – Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- 1977 – Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)[5]
- 1981 – Honorary Life Member of the Statistical Society of Australia Inc. (SSAI)[6]
- 1988 – Awarded the Statistical Society of Australia's Pitman Medal[6] and served as President of the Society
- 1994 – Shared the Australian Academy of Science's Hannan Medal with Peter Hall.
- 1995 – Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal of the Australian Academy of Science.[7]
- 1998 – D.Sc. honoris causa, University of Sydney
- 2003 – Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA)[8]
- 2003 – Appointed Member of the Order of Australia (AM) "for service to mathematics, particularly through research into statistics and probability, and to the advancement of learning in these disciplines".[9]
Offices held
- Vice President of the International Statistical Institute
- President of the Bernoulli Society
- President of the Statistical Society of Australia (1979–1981)
- Vice President of the Australian Mathematical Society
- Editor of the Australian Journal of Statistics
- Editor of Stochastic Processes and Their Applications (1983–1989)
- Editor-in-chief of Journal of Applied Probability (1990–2008)
- Editor-in-chief of Advances in Applied Probability (1990–2008).
References
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- ↑ Joe Gani and Eugene Seneta, Obituary: Christopher Charles Heyde AM, DSc, FAA, FASSA Template:Webarchive, Journal of Applied Probability, vol 45, pp.587–592 (2008)
- ↑ Paul Glasserman and Steven Kou, "A conversation with Chris Heyde" Template:Webarchive, Statistical Science, 2006, vol 21, No. 2, pp 286–298.
- ↑ CAP Template:Webarchive, Center for Applied Probability at Columbia University
- ↑ Christopher C. Heyde 1939 – 2008 Template:Webarchive, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
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- ↑ a b Awards Template:Webarchive, Statistical Society of Australia Inc.
- ↑ Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal Template:Webarchive, Australian Academy of Science, retrieved 2010-06-06.
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External links
- Template:PAGENAMEBASE at the Mathematics Genealogy ProjectTemplate:EditAtWikidata
- Memoir full transcription from Historical Records of Australian Science, vol.20, no.1, 2009
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- 1939 births
- 2008 deaths
- Probability theorists
- Australian statisticians
- Academic staff of the Australian National University
- Members of the Order of Australia
- Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science
- Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
- People educated at Barker College
- Michigan State University faculty
- Academics of the University of Sheffield
- Mathematical statisticians
- Academics from Sydney