Valerie Isham
British mathematician
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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.
Valerie S. Isham | |
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| Born | 1947 (age 78–79) |
| Alma mater | Imperial College London |
| Scientific career | |
| Workplaces | University College London |
| David Cox | |
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.