Leading Statistician to Give Krishnaiah Memorial Lectures on 25 and 26 April

9 April 2003 -- James O. Berger, a leading theorist in the use of statistical estimation in decisionmaking and a Visiting Krishnaiah Scholar at Penn State, will present the Krishnaiah Memorial Lectures on 25 and 26 April 2003 on the Penn State University Park campus. His lecture on 25 April, titled "Statistical Validation of Computer Models," will take place in 107 Wartik Laboratory at 9:30 a.m. His lecture on 26 April, titled "Reflections on Bayesian and Non-Bayesian Statistics," will take place in 201 Thomas Building at 2:45 p.m.

Berger is Arts and Sciences Professor at Duke University and director of the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI), a partnership of Duke University, North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the National Institute of Statistical Sciences.

He has received numerous honors in recognition of his many contributions to statistics, including a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship from 1977 to 1978, an Alfred E. Sloan Foundation Fellowship from 1979 to 1981, the President's Award of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies in 1985, and being selected to give the DeGroot Memorial Lecture at Carnegie Mellon University in 1995 and the R. A. Fisher Lecture of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies in 2001. He is a member of the Spanish Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He served as president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics from 1995 to 1996, as co-editor of the journal Annals of Statistics from 1997 to 2001, and began serving as director of the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute in 2002.

The Krishnaiah lectures, which are open to the public at no charge, are part of the workshop titled "Current Trends in Bayesian Methods" organized by the Center for Multivariate Analysis in the Department of Statistics. For access assistance to the Krishnaiah Memorial Lectures or to register to attend the "Current Trends in Bayesian Methods" workshop, contact C. R. Rao by e-mail at <crr1@psu.edu>.

The Krishnaiah Lectures and the Krishnaiah Visiting Scholar Program are named in honor of P. R. Krishnaiah, the founder of the Journal of Multivariate Analysis and an influential statistician during the latter half of the 20th century. He in addition to being a leading theorist in the use of statistical estimation in decision making, he is a pioneer in the development of novel approaches to an area of statistics known as Bayesian inference, which is used in decision making. His work has revolutionized the modern study of an area of decision theory known as the Frequentist DecisionTheoretic Study of Statistical Estimation. He wrote and co-wrote a pair of major textbooks in the area, which together provide the definitive modern perspective on the widely used field of statistical inference.

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