Robin Sibson (4 May 1944 – 19 March 2017)
was a British mathematician and educator.
He was a fellow of
King's College, Cambridge
King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the city ...
, professor of statistics at the
University of Bath and then vice-chancellor of the
University of Kent
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. He was chief executive of the
Higher Education Statistics Agency from 2001
until 2009.
He was also a member of the Committee for Higher Education and Research (CC-HER),
the predecessor to the Steering Committee for Higher Education and Research (CDESR).
He died on 19 March 2017 at the age of 72.
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Research
He was the developer of natural neighbour interpolation
image:Natural-neighbors-coefficients-example.png, 200px, Natural neighbor interpolation with Sibson weights. The area of the green circles are the interpolating weights, ''w'i''. The purple-shaded region is the new Voronoi cell, after inserting ...
on discrete sets of points in space.
Selected bibliography
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Chapter in books
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References
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Professor Robin Sibson appointed as new Chief Executive of HESA
1944 births
2017 deaths
20th-century British mathematicians
21st-century British mathematicians
Fellows of King's College, Cambridge
Academics of the University of Bath
Vice-Chancellors of the University of Kent
Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
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