Bernard Silverman

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|name = Bernard Silverman

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|birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1952|2|22}}

|birth_place = London, England{{Cite web|url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=1jhpy%2F6lP0zamJmdemxBpQ&scan=1|title=Index entry|access-date=30 December 2017|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}}

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|field = Statistician

|work_institutions = University of Oxford

|education = City of London School

|alma_mater = University of Cambridge

|doctoral_advisor = D. G. Kendall

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|thesis_title = Data Analysis: Some Theory and Practice

|thesis_year = 1978

|known_for = density estimation, nonparametric regression, functional data analysis

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|prizes = Mayhew Prize (1974)
Smith's Prize (1976)
Gold Medal International Mathematical Olympiad
Guy Medal (Bronze, 1984) (Silver, 1997)
COPSS Presidents' Award (1991)
Fellow of the Royal Society

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Sir Bernard Walter Silverman, {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS|FAcSS|size=100%|sep=,}} (born 22 February 1952) is a British statistician and former{{Cite web |last=Silverman |first=Bernard |date=30 December 2022 |title=Resignation from Ministry in the Church of England |url=https://bernardsilverman.co.uk/onewebmedia/Deed%20of%20Relinquishment_redaction.pdf}} Anglican clergyman. He was Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, from 1 October 2003 to 31 December 2009. He is a member of the Statistics Department at the University of Oxford, and has also been attached to the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, and the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance. He has been a member of the Council of the University of Oxford and of the Council of the Royal Society.[http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?tip=1&id=1032 Council for 2008/9] of the Royal Society He was briefly president of the Royal Statistical Society in January 2010, a position from which he stood down upon announcement of his appointment as Chief Scientific Adviser to the Home Office.{{cite web|url=http://press.homeoffice.gov.uk/press-releases/chief-scientific-adviser.html|title=New Home Office Chief Scientific Adviser announced|publisher=Home Office Press Office|access-date=19 February 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100410193023/http://press.homeoffice.gov.uk/press-releases/chief-scientific-adviser.html|archive-date=10 April 2010|df=dmy-all}} He was awarded a knighthood in the 2018 New Years Honours List, "For public service and services to Science".[https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/671148/NY18_Queens_List_-_Final_.pdf Official 2018 New Years Honours List]

Education

Silverman was educated at the City of London School,{{cite web|url=https://www.cityoflondonschool.org.uk/support-us/alumni|title=City of London School - Old Citizens|work=City of London School|access-date=12 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170509171639/http://www.cityoflondonschool.org.uk/support-us/alumni|archive-date=9 May 2017|url-status=dead}} an independent day school in Central London, from 1961 to 1969, on a Carpenter Scholarship (similar to today's full bursary),{{cite web|url=http://www.jcc.org.uk/News/Q---A-with-Sir-Bernard-Silverman.aspx|title=Q & A with Sir Bernard Silverman|work=John Carpenter Club|date=17 April 2018|access-date=12 July 2018}} followed by Jesus College at the University of Cambridge.

Career

1970–73 Undergraduate, Jesus College, Cambridge.
1973–74 Graduate Student, Jesus College, Cambridge.
1974–75 Research Student, Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge.
1975–77 Research Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.
1976–77 Calculator Development Manager, Sinclair Radionics Ltd.
1977–78 Junior Lecturer in Statistics, University of Oxford, and Weir Junior Research Fellow of University College, Oxford.
1978–80 Lecturer in Statistics, University of Bath.
1981–84 Reader in Statistics, University of Bath.
1984 and 1992–93 Head of Statistics Group, University of Bath.
1984–93 Professor of Statistics, University of Bath.
1988–91 Head of School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath.
1993–2003 Professor of Statistics, University of Bristol
1993–97 and 1998–99 Head of Statistics Group, University of Bristol
1999–2003 Henry Overton Wills Professor of Mathematics, University of Bristol
2000–03 Provost of the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol
2003–09 Master of St Peter's College, Oxford
2010– Senior Research Fellow, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford (part-time)
2010– Professorial Research Associate, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford (part-time)
2010–17 Chief Scientific Adviser, Home Office
2018–22 Professor of Modern Slavery Statistics, Rights Lab, University of Nottingham{{cite web|url=https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/beacons-of-excellence/rights-lab/our-experts/index.aspx|title=Rights Lab|work=University of Nottingham|access-date=6 Dec 2018}}

=Degrees and qualifications=

1973 Bachelor of Arts, Cambridge. (Wrangler)
1974 Part III of Mathematical Tripos, Cambridge (with Distinction)
1977 Doctor of Philosophy, Cambridge
1989 Doctor of Science, Cambridge
1993 Chartered Statistician, Royal Statistical Society
2000 Bachelor of Theology, Southampton (First Class Honours) through STETS

=Awards and honours=

1970 Gold Medal, International Mathematical Olympiad
1974 Mayhew Prize for Mathematical Tripos Part III, University of Cambridge
1976 Smith's Prize, University of Cambridge
1984 Royal Statistical Society Guy Medal in Bronze
1985 Special Invited Paper, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
1988 Technometrics Special Discussion Paper, American Statistical Association
1991 Presidents' Award of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies
1993 Fulkerson Lecturer, Cornell University
1995 Royal Statistical Society Guy Medal in Silver
1997 Fellow of the Royal Society
1999 Special Invited Paper, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
1999 Henri Willem Methorst Medal, International Statistical Institute
2000 Corcoran Lecturer, University of Oxford
2001 Member of Academia Europaea
2002 Original Member, Highly Cited Researchers database, ISI
2003 Honorary Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge
2018 Knight Bachelor in the 2018 New Year Honours for public service and services to Science.{{London Gazette |issue=62150 |date=30 December 2017 |page=N2 |supp=y}}

=Ecclesiastical career=

Silverman was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1999 and as a priest in 2000.{{Crockford| surname = Silverman | forenames = Bernard Walter | id = 31037 | accessed = 19 May 2017}} From 1999 to 2005, he was an honorary assistant curate of Cotham Parish Church in the Diocese of Bristol. Between 2005 and 2009, he held Permission to Officiate in the Diocese of Oxford. Then, from 2009 to 2015, he was an honorary assistant curate of St Giles' Church and St Margaret's Church, Oxford. From 2015 to 2022, he held Permission to Officiate in both the Diocese of Oxford and in the Diocese of London. He renounced his orders in 2022.

Books

{{cite book |last1=Green |first1=P. J. |last2=Silverman |first2=B. W. |year=1994 |title=Nonparametric Regression and Generalized Linear Models: A Roughness Penalty Approach |publisher=Chapman & Hall }}
{{cite book |last1=Ramsay |first1=J. O. |last2=Silverman |first2=B. W. |year=2002 |title=Applied Functional Data Analysis: Methods and Case Studies |publisher=Springer-Verlag }}
{{cite book |last1=Ramsay |first1=J. O. |last2=Silverman |first2=B. W. |orig-year=1997 |year=2005 |title=Functional Data Analysis |publisher=Springer-Verlag |edition=second, expanded and rewritten }}
{{cite book |last=Silverman |first=B. W. |title=Density Estimation for Statistics and Data Analysis |publisher=Chapman & Hall |year=1986 |bibcode=1986desd.book.....S }}
{{cite book |editor1-first=B. W. |editor1-last=Silverman |editor2-first=J. C. |editor2-last=Vassilicos |year=2000 |title=Wavelets: The Key to Intermittent Information? |publisher=Oxford University Press }}

References

Sources and links

[http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~silverma/pdf/silvermancv.pdf Bernard Silverman's CV]
[http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~silverma/ Bernard Silverman home page]
{{IMO results|id=10185}}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20120821061853/http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/s/10393/Bernard%2BWalter.aspx Prof Bernard Silverman, FRS] at Debrett's People of Today

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