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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Colloquium Presenters." National Research Council. 1990. Chairing the Mathematical Sciences Department of the 1990s: Proceedings of a Colloquium October 27-28, 1989 Arlington, Virginia. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9477.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Colloquium Presenters." National Research Council. 1990. Chairing the Mathematical Sciences Department of the 1990s: Proceedings of a Colloquium October 27-28, 1989 Arlington, Virginia. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9477.
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APPENDICES APPENDS A: 1 989 COLLOQUIUM PRESENTERS Lawrence H. Cox is director of the Board on Mathematical Sciences. Previously he was the senior mathematical statistician and assistant chief, Statistical Research Division, Bureau of the Census and adjunct professor at the University of Maryland. He received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Brown University. Ronald G. Douglas has been dean of physical sciences and mathematics for over three years and served two terms as chair of the Mathematics Department at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He has served on various boards and committees in the mathematical sciences community concerned with research, teaching, and resources. Frank L. Gilfeather is chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New Mexico. He is a member of the Committee on Science Policy of the American Mathematical Society. In addition to other professional service, he recently spent four years in Washington, D.C., at the National Science Foundation and as director of the National Research Council's Board on Mathematical Sciences. James Glimm is chair of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He has served on the faculties of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rockefeller University, and Courant Institute of New York University. Dr. Glimm is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. Daniel Gorenstein is Jacqueline B. Lewis Professor at Rutgers University. He is the director of the National Science Foundation Science Technology Center in Discrete Mathematics and Computational Science. Dr. Gorenstein is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. PhillipA. Griffiths is provost end dames B. Duke Professor of Mathematics et Duke University as well as chair of the NRC's Board on Mathematical Sciences. He has also been a professor of mathematics at Harvard and Princeton Universities. Dr. Griffiths is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Jeffrey H. Hooper is the head of the Quality Theory and Technology Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He received a Ph.D. in operations research from Cornell University. Frank C. Hoppensteadt is dean of the College of Natural Science at Michigan State University. He has served on the faculties of the University of Wisconsin and New York University. Dr. Hoppensteadt was chair of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah from 1982 through 1985. Dean L. Isaacson is director of the Statistical Laboratory and chair of the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University. Dr. Isaacson has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in statistics and mathematics and has conducted research in martingales, stochastic integrals, and Markov chains. HereceivedaPh.D. in mathematics from the University of Minnesota. 95

CHASING TO MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF TO 1990S Gerald J. Lieberman is professor of operations research and statistics at Stanford University. He has served as vice-provost and dean of graduate studies and research, associate dean of humanities and sciences, and was the founding chair of the Department of Operations Research at Stanford. Dr. Lieberman is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He received a Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University. Calvin C. Moore is associate vice president for academic affairs in the Office of the President of the University of California, with responsibility spanning the nine campuses of the University of California system. He has been on the faculty of the Mathematics Department of the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Moore has also served as dean of physical sciences and founding deputy director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. Ingram Olkin is professor of statistics and education at Stanford University. Previously he was professor of statistics at the University of Minnesota and Michigan State University, and president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He received a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of North Carolina. Walter R. Pirie has been on the statistics faculty at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University since 1970. He is chair of the American Statistical Association's Committee on Undergraduate Curriculain Statistics. Dr. Pirie received a Ph.D. in statistics from Florida State University. Michael C. Reed is professor of mathematics at Duke University. He is an analyst who recently completed a second term as chair of the Mathematics Department at Duke. Jerome Sacks is professor of statistics at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Jayaram Sethuraman is chair of the Department of Statistics at Florida State University. He is a member of the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics (National Research Council) and of the Council of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Dr. Sethuraman received a Ph.D. from the Indian Statistical Institute. James R. Thompson is a professor and the founding chair of the Department of Statistics at Rice University. Previously, he served on the faculty of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Rice. Dr. Thompson is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and is an elected member of He International Statistical Institute. He received aPh.D. in mathematics from Princeton University. James A. Voytak is director of the Mathematical Sciences in the Year 2000 (MS 2000) project at the National Research Council. Prior positions include associate executive director of the American Mathematical Society and executive of ficer in the Mathematical Sciences Department at RensselaerPolytechnic Institute. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Carnegie Institute of Technology. 96

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