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 process In statistics and probability theory, a point process or point field is a collection of mathematical points randomly located on a mathematical space such as the real line or Euclidean space. Kallenberg, O. (1986). ''Random Measures'', 4th edition. ...

es, spatial processes, spatio-temporal processes and population processes.

Education and career

Isham went to Imperial College London (

B.Sc. A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University of ...

, Ph.D.) where she was a student of statistician David Cox. She has been a professor of probability and

statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ''wikt:Statistik#German, Statistik'', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of ...

at University College London since 1992.

Book

Isham is the coauthor with Cox of the book '' Point Processes'' (Chapman & Hall, 1980).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 David Vere-Jones (born in 1936 in England) is a New Zealand statistician and probabilist. He is known in particular for his work on earthquake forecasting. Career David Vere-Jones obtained his doctorate in 1962 at Oxford University under the ...

(1982),

Recognition

Isham was the president of the Royal Statistical Society for 2011–2012. She was awarded its

Guy Medal The Guy Medals are awarded by the Royal Statistical Society in three categories; Gold, Silver and Bronze. The Silver and Bronze medals are awarded annually. The Gold Medal was awarded every three years between 1987 and 2011, but is awarded biennia ...

in Bronze in 1990. In 2018 she received the Forder Lectureship from the

London Mathematical Society The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is one of the United Kingdom's learned societies for mathematics (the others being the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), the Edinburgh Mathematical S ...

and the New Zealand Mathematical Society.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Isham, Valerie S. Probability theorists 20th-century British mathematicians 21st-century British mathematicians British statisticians Women mathematicians Women statisticians 1947 births Living people Academics of University College London Presidents of the Royal Statistical Society