Valerie Isham Explained

Valerie S. Isham
Caption:	Valerie S. Isham
Nationality:	British
Workplaces:	University College London
Alma Mater:	Imperial College London
Doctoral Advisor:	David Cox
Awards:	Guy Medal (Bronze, 1990)

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.

Education and career

Isham went to Imperial College London (B.Sc., Ph.D.) where she was a student of statistician David Cox. 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).^[1]

Recognition

Isham was the president of the Royal Statistical Society for 2011–2012. She was awarded its Guy Medal in Bronze in 1990.^{[2] [3]} In 2018 she received the Forder Lectureship from the London Mathematical Society and the New Zealand Mathematical Society.

Notes and References

1. Reviews of Point Processes: J. D. Biggins (1981), Math. Gaz.,, ; D. J. Daley, ; Fergus Daly (1991), JRSSA,, ; Paul T. Holmes (1983), JASA,, ; David Vere-Jones (1982),
2. Web site: RSS President. Royal Statistical Society. 2011-01-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20120317044904/http://www.rss.org.uk/site/cms/contentviewarticle.asp?article=485. 2012-03-17. dead.
3. Web site: Professor Valerie Isham. Department of Statistics, University College London. 2011-01-26.