The Georges Matheron Lecture Series[1] 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.[2] [3] The Georges Matheron Lecture 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.[4] The IAMG Lectures Committee seeks nominations and makes the selection.[5]
| Name[6] | Country and Institution | Year | Lecture Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| France, École des Mines | 2006 | Random Set Modeling | ||
| [7] | South Africa, De Beers | 2007 | Narrating on a Journey to Solve a Sampling Problem | |
| [8] | Australia, University of Western Australia | 2008 | Special Point Process Models on Exploration Geology | |
| [9] | France, École Nationale Superieure de Géologie, Nancy Université | 2009 | GeoChron: A Mathematical Framework for Sedimentary Geology | |
| [10] | USA, United States Geological Survey | 2010 | Solving the Wrong Resource Assessment and Exploration Problems Precisely | |
| [11] | India, Indian Statistical Institute-Bangalore Centre | 2011 | Mathematical Morphology in Geomorphology and GISci[12] | |
| [13] | France, École National Supérieure des Mines de Paris, Fontainebleau | 2012 | Is There Still Room for New Developments in Geostatistics? | |
| [14] | Australia, University of Adelaide | 2013 | Quantifying Uncertainty for Mineral and Energy Resource Exploitation—Sources, Randomness, Scale and Structure | |
| [15] | Germany, University of Freiberg | 2014 | Multiple Point Statistics Understood in Matheronian Principles | |
| [16] | Canada, McGill University | 2015 | Smart(er) Mining Complexes and Mineral Value Chains: A Technological Perspective on Risk Management and Sustainability | |
| [17] | USA, Landmark Graphics Corporation, Halliburton | 2016 | The Geostatistical Invasion of the Petroleum Industry; One Perspective from an Applied Geostatistician | |
| Australia, University of Wollongong | 2017 | A Conditional Approach to Multivariate Geostatistics | ||
| [18] | France, Mines ParisTech | 2018 | Some Aspects of Geostatistical Simulations | |
| [19] | Spain, University of Girona | 2019 | Compositional Data in Geostatistics | |
| [20] | Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology | 2020 | From Matheron's Theory of Regionalized Variables to Exascale Geostatistics | |
| Not Issued | 2021 | |||
| Not Issued | 2022 | |||
| [21] | Chile, University of Chile | 2023 | A journey into covariance models for spatial data |