The Lukacs Distinguished Professor chair was established in 1989Establishment of the Eugene Lukacs Visiting Professorship in Statistics by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Bowling Green State University in honor of Eugene Lukacs, (Obituary) who came to Bowling Green with his colleagues Radha Laha and Vijay Rohatgi in 1972 to establish the doctoral program in statistics. Eugene Lukacs was Bowling Green's first Distinguished University Professor.Eugene Lukacs (1906–1987).
Each year an outstanding senior researcher in probability or statistics is invited to serve as the Eugene Lukacs Distinguished Visiting Professor during the academic year or a semester. The Lukacs Professors are invited based on their distinguished record of research in the application or theory of probability or statistics. The Lukacs professor typically collaborates with current faculty on research, participates in seminars and colloquia, and typically gives a graduate course or presents a series of related seminars. Lukacs Professors have organized Lukacs SymposiaDistinguished Visiting Faculty on a variety of topics in probability and statistics.
Lukacs Distinguished Visiting Professors Year Professor Institution 1990–1991 Gábor J. Székely Budapest Institute of Technology, Hungary 1991–1992 Tim Robertson University of Iowa1992–1993 Samuel Kotz University of Maryland1992–1993A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada1993–1994 Malay Ghosh University of Florida1993–1994 Anatoliy Skorokhod Michigan State University1994–1995 Abram Kagan University of Maryland1995–1996 Vyacheslav Girko Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences1996–1997 Pranab K. Sen University of North Carolina1997–1998 C. R. Rao Pennsylvania State University1998–1999 G. P. Patil Pennsylvania State University1999 Fall semester Kanti V. Mardia University of Leeds1999 Fall semester Raju Govindarajulu University of Kentucky2000 Spring semester Nail Bakirov Russian Academy of Sciences2000 March 13–17 James Berger Duke University 2000 Fall semester Nozer Singpurwalla George Washington University 2001 March 19–30 Norbert Henze University of Karlsruhe, Germany2001 April 1–5 Bradley Efron Stanford University2001 Fall semester Yasunori Fujikoshi Hiroshima University, Japan2002 Spring semester Hung T. Nguyen New Mexico State University2002 April 8–12 Peter J. Bickel University of California, Berkeley2003 March 28 – April 2 C. C. Heyde Columbia University and Australian National University2003 Spring semester Damodar Shanbhag University of Sheffield, U.K.2003 Fall semester Eugene Seneta University of Sydney, Australia2004 Spring semester Leandro Pardo Complutense University of Madrid, Spain2005 Spring semester N. Balakrishnan McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada2006 May 30 – June 3 Ioannis Karatzas Columbia University2006 June 12 – June 15 Donald St. P. Richards Pennsylvania State University2007 Spring semester M. S. Srivastava University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
+ Lukacs Symposia Year Lukacs Professor Symposium Title 1990–1991 Gabor J. Szekely First Lukacs Symposium, March 1991 Probability and Statistics 1991–1992 Tim Robertson and Sam Kotz Second Lukacs Symposium, March 1992 Order Restricted Statistical Inference1992–1993A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh Third Lukacs Symposium – March 1993 Revival of Distributions and Regression Quantiles1993–1994 Malay Ghosh and Anatoliy Skorokhod Fourth Lukacs Symposium – March 1994Infinite Dimensional Randomly Perturbed Dynamical Systems1994–1995 Abram Kagan Fifth Lukacs Symposium – March 1995Statistical Inference in Semiparametric Models1995–1996 Vyacheslav Girko Sixth Lukacs Symposium – March 1996Multidimensional Statistical Analysis and Theory of Random Matrices1996–1997 Pranab K. Sen Seventh Lukacs Symposium – April 1997(1999) Robustness in Multivariate and Survival ModelsSpecial issue of Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, on the Proceedings of The Seventh Eugene Lukacs Conference on Mathematical Statistics and Probability Theory, Volume 75, pp. 223–236.1997–1998 C. R. Rao Eighth Lukacs Symposium — April 1998 Statistics for the 21st Century1998–1999 G. P. Patil Ninth Lukacs Symposium — April 1999 Frontiers of Environmental and Ecological Statistics for the 21st Century 2005 N. Balakrishnan April 15–16, 2005 May 14, 2005 "Statistical Distributions and Applications" "Ordered Data and Applications"
See also List of statisticians History of statistics
References
External links Statistics for the 21st Century, 1998 Lukacs Symposium, organized by C. R. Rao. Frontiers of Environmental and Ecological Statistics for the 21st Century: Synergistic Challenges, Opportunities and Directions for Statistics, Ecology, Environment, and Society 1999 Lukacs Symposium convened by G. P. Patil.