Valerie Isham

Valerie S. Isham
Born1947 (age 76–77)
NationalityBritish
Alma materImperial College London
AwardsGuy Medal (Bronze, 1990)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity College London
Doctoral advisorDavid Cox

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.

Education and career

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

Isham is the coauthor with Cox of the book Point Processes (Chapman & Hall, 1980).[2]

Recognition

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

  1. ^ Valerie Isham at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ "RSS President". Royal Statistical Society. Archived from the original on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
  4. ^ "Professor Valerie Isham". Department of Statistics, University College London. Retrieved 26 January 2011.