Valerie Isham

Valerie S. Isham
Valerie S. Isham
Born	1947 (age 75–76)
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Imperial College London
Awards	Guy Medal (Bronze, 1990)
	Scientific career
Institutions	University College London
Doctoral advisor	David 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

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), MR 0598033
"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.

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[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), MR 0598033

[rsspres-3] "RSS President". Royal Statistical Society. Archived from the original on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2011.

[ucl-4] "Professor Valerie Isham". Department of Statistics, University College London. Retrieved 26 January 2011.

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21st century	2001–2003 Peter Green 2003–2005 Andy Grieve 2005–2007 Tim Holt 2008–2009 David Hand 2010–2010 Bernard Silverman (resigned Feb 2010; replaced pro tem by David Hand) 2011–2012 Valerie Isham 2013–2014 John Pullinger 2014–2016 Peter Diggle 2017–2018 David Spiegelhalter 2019– Deborah Ashby
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