Chris Heyde
{{short description|Australian statistician}}
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{{Infobox scientist
|name = Chris Heyde
|honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM|size=100%}}
|birth_date = {{Birth-date|20 April 1939}}
|death_date = {{Death-date and age|6 March 2008|20 April 1939}}
|birth_place = Sydney, Australia
|death_place = Canberra, Australia
|alma_mater = The Australian National University
|workplaces = Columbia University,
University of Melbourne, CSIRO,
University of Manchester,
University of Sheffield,
Michigan State University,
The Australian National University, Canberra.
|doctoral_advisor = Patrick Alfred Pierce Moran
|fields = Probability theory,
Stochastic processes,
Statistics
|nationality = Australian
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|known_for =
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Christopher Charles Heyde (20 April 1939, in Sydney – 6 March 2008, in Canberra) was a prominent Australian statistician who did leading research in probability, stochastic processes and statistics.
Heyde was a professor at Columbia University, the University of Melbourne, CSIRO, University of Manchester, University of Sheffield, Michigan State University, and The Australian National University, Canberra.Joe Gani and Eugene Seneta, [http://webee.technion.ac.il/people/adler/heyde-obit.pdf Obituary: Christopher Charles Heyde AM, DSc, FAA, FASSA] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724081428/http://webee.technion.ac.il/people/adler/heyde-obit.pdf |date=24 July 2011 }}, Journal of Applied Probability, vol 45, pp.587–592 (2008)Paul Glasserman and Steven Kou, [http://www2.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/pglasserman/Other/conversation.pdf "A conversation with Chris Heyde"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703171749/http://www2.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/pglasserman/Other/conversation.pdf |date=3 July 2008 }}, Statistical Science, 2006, vol 21, No. 2, pp 286–298.[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cap/ CAP] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180111051041/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cap/ |date=11 January 2018 }}, Center for Applied Probability at Columbia University[http://www.stat.columbia.edu/misc-pages/Chris.html Christopher C. Heyde 1939 – 2008] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080407234508/http://www.stat.columbia.edu/misc-pages/Chris.html |date=7 April 2008 }}, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
In 2008, Heyde died of metastatic melanoma.
Honours
- 1972 – Member of the International Statistical Institute
- 1973 – Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- 1977 – Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA){{Cite web |title=Chris Heyde |url=https://www.science.org.au/profile/chris-heyde |access-date=2023-11-25 |website=Australian Academy of Science |language=en}}
- 1981 – Honorary Life Member of the Statistical Society of Australia Inc. (SSAI)
- 1988 – Awarded the Statistical Society of Australia's Pitman Medal[http://www.statsoc.org.au/Awards.htm Awards] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110216083624/http://www.statsoc.org.au/Awards.htm |date=16 February 2011 }}, Statistical Society of Australia Inc. and served as President of the Society
- 1994 – Shared the Australian Academy of Science's Hannan Medal with Peter Hall.
- 1995 – Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal of the Australian Academy of Science.[http://www.science.org.au/awards/awards/lyle.html Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101128133557/http://science.org.au/awards/awards/lyle.html |date=28 November 2010 }}, Australian Academy of Science, retrieved 2010-06-06.
- 1998 – D.Sc. honoris causa, University of Sydney
- 2003 – Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA){{Cite web |title=Academy Fellow – Professor Chris Heyde AM, FASSA |url=https://socialsciences.org.au/academy-fellow/?sId=0032v000033l9OVAAY |access-date=2023-11-25 |publisher=Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia |language=en-AU}}
- 2003 – Appointed Member of the Order of Australia (AM) "for service to mathematics, particularly through research into statistics and probability, and to the advancement of learning in these disciplines".{{cite web | title =Heyde, Christopher Charles, AM | publisher =Government of Australia | work =It's an Honour | date =26 January 2003 | url =https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1042199 | accessdate =2008-03-17 | archive-date =26 May 2011 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20110526091225/http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=1042199&search_type=simple&showInd=true | url-status =live }}
Offices held
- Vice President of the International Statistical Institute
- President of the Bernoulli Society
- President of the Statistical Society of Australia (1979–1981)
- Vice President of the Australian Mathematical Society
- Editor of the Australian Journal of Statistics
- Editor of Stochastic Processes and Their Applications (1983–1989)
- Editor-in-chief of Journal of Applied Probability (1990–2008)
- Editor-in-chief of Advances in Applied Probability (1990–2008).
References
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External links
- {{MathGenealogy|id=57372}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110806091004/http://www.science.org.au/fellows/memoirs/heyde.html Memoir] full transcription from Historical Records of Australian Science, vol.20, no.1, 2009
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Category:Probability theorists
Category:Australian statisticians
Category:Academic staff of the Australian National University
Category:Members of the Order of Australia
Category:Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science
Category:Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
Category:People educated at Barker College
Category:Michigan State University faculty
Category:Academics of the University of Sheffield