Leading statistician attends international conference at University of Wollongong

18 December 2001

One of the world's leading statisticians, Professor Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, is visiting the Illawarra this week for an international statistics conference being held at the University of Wollongong (UOW).

The International Conference on Statistics, Combinatorics and Related Areas and The Eighth International Conference of the Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics is being held at UOW from December 19 to 21.

Professor Rao was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from UOW yesterday, Monday 17 December. He also gave the occasional address to students at the Faculty of Informatics graduation ceremony. He has also accepted an invitation to be the first visiting professional fellow of the Institute for Mathematical Modelling and Computational Systems at the University.

A professor of statistics at Pennsylvania State University in the US, he has published more than 500 works in diverse areas of pure and applied statistics, in numerical matrix analysis and in areas of direct application. The conference starts tomorrow, Wednesday 19 December and will be held in Building 20.

For further information contact Professor Philip Broadbridge, Director of the Institute for Mathematical Modelling and Computational Systems at the School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics on (02) 4221 4400.

Media please note: A photograph of Professor Rao is available upon request. Contact Leanne Crouch on 4221 3110.