$McMaster University$

Graduate Program in Statistics

SPEAKER:: Nancy M. Reid; Department of Statistics; University of Toronto

ABSTRACT:: This talk will outline a number of areas of mathematics that impact on the development of the theory and methods of statistics, and areas of statistics that have led to the development of new mathematics. A very personal view of some of the more interesting or fruitful areas of overlap will be described and illustrated.

About the Speaker: Prof. Reid is a professor in the Department of Statistics at University of Toronto. Her major areas of research interest are in asymptotic theory of statistics and likelihood methods. She has also worked in applied statistics and, in particular, the design of experiment on which topic she has written a recent book with Sir David R. Cox. Recent work has also looked at the connections between Bayesian and frequentist approaches to statistical inference.
Prof. Reid did her undergraduate work at the University of Waterloo, and did graduate work at the University of British Columbia and Stanford University where she completed her PhD in statistics under the supervision of R. G. Miller. After completing her PhD Prof. Reid was a NATO postdoctoral fellow at Imperial College in London and then returned to join the faculty at the University of British Columbia. In 1986, she joined the faculty at University of Toronto and was Chair of that department from 1997 until 2000. Among her many honours are the COPSS award for the best statistician under the age of 40 which she won in 1992 and in 2001 Prof. Reid was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 1996-97 Prof. Reid was President of the Institute for Mathematical Statistics. She is currently Vice-President of the International Statistical Institute and President-Elect of the Statistical society of Canada.