User:Richard D. Gill

I am an emeritus professor of Mathematical Statistics in the department of mathematics, science faculty, University of Leiden, Netherlands. My scientific interests are in statistics, probability, history and philosophy of both. I have worked both on the pure theory of statistics, and in various application fields, in particular: medical statistics, survival analysis, quantum statistics, forensic statistics. On the theoretical side I am interested in asymptotic theory, in particular, non-parametric maximum likelihood, asymptotic optimality for estimation of infinite dimensional parameters, the functional delta method. Biographical detail: I was born in 1951 in the UK but spent my professional life in the Netherlands.

My homepage at Leiden University is http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~gill

I have recently spent a lot of time on Wikipedia talking and learning and fighting about the Monty Hall problem. I plan to start off here by writing an article on that famous brain-teaser - probability-puzzle.

Biography

Academic credentials:

• 1973, B.A. degree, 1st class, in Mathematics from University of Cambridge, U.K.
• 1974, Diploma in Statistics, with distinction, from University of Cambridge, U.K.
• 1979. Ph.D. degree in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, from Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Work and other experience:

• 1974 - 1983, Research associate in Department of Mathematical Statistics, Mathematical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 1979 - 1982, Part-time research associate at Interfaculty for Actuarial Science and Econometrics, Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 1980 (four months), Researcher at Statistical Research Unit, Danish Medical and Social Sciences Research Councils, Copenhagen, Denmark
• 1983 - 1988, Head of Department of Mathematical Statistics, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 1986 - 1990, Special professorship at University of Leiden, Netherlands
• 1988 - 2006, Professor in Department of Mathematics, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
• 1998 - 2006, Various sabbaticals at other universities and a guest professorship at Aarhus University, Denmark
• 2006 - to date, Professor of Mathematical Statistics, University of Leiden, Netherlands

Distinctions, special invitations, appointments and awards

• 1981, Invited lecturer at Summer School of Probability, Kuusamo, Finland
• 1984, Elected member of International Statistical Institute
• 1988, Lecture course on semiparametric models at the University of Michigan at East Lansing, Michigan
• 1989, Special invited lecture at the Institute of Mathematical Statistics meeting at Davis, California
• 1989, Elected fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
• 1990–1996, Editor-in-chief of Statistica Neerlandica
• 1990 Winner of van Dantzig prize (awarded every 5 years by Dutch Statistical Society)
• 1992 Lecturer at Saint-Flour Summer School of Probability
• 1995 Keynote speaker at First Seattle Symposium in Biostatistics, Seattle, Washington
• 1998 Opening lecture, 22nd European Meeting of Statisticians, Vilnius, Lithuania
• 1999 Elected member of Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences
• 2001 Invited lecture course at University of Vannes, Brittany, France
• 2003 Read paper to Royal Statistical Society, London on quantum statistics
• 2006 Invited lecture course on quantum statistics, ENS, Paris
• 2007– President of Dutch society for statistics and operations research
• 2008 LeCam lecture at joint meeting of Statistical Society of Canada and French Statistical Society at Ottawa, Canada
• 2009 etc etc ... to be continued

Other

• Coeditor, associate editor, or editorial board member of eleven scholarly journals devoted to mathematics and statistics
• Participated in the organization of 23 international conferences and workshops
• Invited lecturer at more than 35 conferences and workshops
• More details are available online at Curriculum Vitae R.D. Gill