The Georges Matheron Lecture Series is sponsored by the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG) to honor the legacy of the French engineer Georges François Paul Marie Matheron, known as the founder of geostatistics and a co-founder (together with Jean Serra) of mathematical morphology. The Georges Matheron Lecture was established in 2005 and is given by a scientist with proven research ability in the field of spatial statistics or mathematical morphology. It is presented annually if an eligible and worthy nominee is found. The first recipient of the award was Jean Serra, for a long time a scientists with the Centre of Mathematical Morphology, Fontainebleau. Serra delivered the first lecture at the IAMG conference in Liège, Belgium in 2006. The IAMG Lectures Committee seeks nominations and makes the selection.
Awardees
NameMatheron Lecturers , Iamg.org Country and Institution Year Lecture TitleFrance, École des Mines2006Random Set ModelingSouth Africa, De Beers2007Narrating on a Journey to Solve a Sampling ProblemAustralia, University of Western Australia2008Special Point Process Models on Exploration GeologyFrance, École Nationale Superieure de Géologie, Nancy Université2009GeoChron: A Mathematical Framework for Sedimentary GeologyUSA, United States Geological Survey2010Solving the Wrong Resource Assessment and Exploration Problems PreciselyIndia, Indian Statistical Institute-Bangalore Centre2011Mathematical Morphology in Geomorphology and GISciFrance, École National Supérieure des Mines de Paris, Fontainebleau2012Is There Still Room for New Developments in Geostatistics? Australia, University of Adelaide2013Quantifying Uncertainty for Mineral and Energy Resource Exploitation—Sources, Randomness, Scale and StructureGermany, University of Freiberg2014Multiple Point Statistics Understood in Matheronian PrinciplesCanada, McGill University2015Smart(er) Mining Complexes and Mineral Value Chains: A Technological Perspective on Risk Management and SustainabilityUSA, Landmark Graphics Corporation, Halliburton2016The Geostatistical Invasion of the Petroleum Industry; One Perspective from an Applied Geostatistician Australia, University of Wollongong2017A Conditional Approach to Multivariate Geostatistics France, Mines ParisTech2018Some Aspects of Geostatistical Simulations Spain, University of Girona2019Compositional Data in Geostatistics Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology2020From Matheron's Theory of Regionalized Variables to Exascale GeostatisticsNot Issued2021Not Issued2022 Chile, University of Chile2023A journey into covariance models for spatial dataDionissios T. HristopulosGreece, Technical University of Crete2024From Particles to Patterns: An Odyssey from Physics to Geostatistics and Beyond
See also IAMG Distinguished Lectureship Bullerwell Lecture List of geology awards List of geophysics awards List of mathematics awards
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