Bernard Silverman

Professor Bernard Silverman FRS (born 22 February 1952) is a British statistician, Master of St Peter's College, Oxford and a member of the Statistics Department at Oxford University.

Career

* 1970-73 Undergraduate, Jesus College, Cambridge.
* 1973-74 Graduate Student, Jesus College, Cambridge.
* 1974-75 Research Student, Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge.
* 1975-77 Research Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.
* 1976-77 Calculator Development Manager, Sinclair Radionics Ltd.
* 1977-78 Junior Lecturer in Statistics, Oxford University and Weir Junior Research Fellow of University College, Oxford.
* 1978-80 Lecturer in Statistics, University of Bath.
* 1981-84 Reader in Statistics, University of Bath.
* 1984 & 1992-93 Head of Statistics Group, University of Bath.
* 1984-93 Professor of Statistics, University of Bath.
* 1988-91 Head of School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath.
* 1993–2003 Professor of Statistics, University of Bristol
* 1993-97 & 1998-99 Head of Statistics Group, University of Bristol
* 1999–2003 Henry Overton Wills Professor of Mathematics, University of Bristol
* 2000-03 Provost of the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol
* 2003- Master of St Peter’s College, Oxford

Degrees and qualifications

* 1973 Bachelor of Arts, Cambridge. (Wrangler)
* 1974 Part III of Mathematical Tripos, Cambridge (with Distinction)
* 1977 Doctor of Philosophy, Cambridge
* 1989 Doctor of Science, Cambridge
* 1993 Chartered Statistician, Royal Statistical Society
* 2000 Bachelor of Theology, Southampton (First Class Honours)

Awards and honours

* 1970 First Prize, International Mathematical Olympiad
* 1974 Mayhew Prize for Mathematical Tripos Part III, University of Cambridge
* 1976 Smith's Prize, Cambridge University
* 1984 Royal Statistical Society Guy Medal in Bronze
* 1985 Special Invited Paper, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
* 1988 Technometrics Special Discussion Paper, American Statistical Association
* 1991 Presidents' Award of American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Biometric Society (ENAR and WNAR) and Statistical Society of Canada for 'the outstanding statistician under forty' (the COPSS award)
* 1993 Fulkerson Lecturer, Cornell University
* 1995 Royal Statistical Society Guy Medal in Silver
* 1997 Fellow of the Royal Society
* 1999 Special Invited Paper, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
* 1999 Henri Willem Methorst Medal, International Statistical Institute
* 2000 Corcoran Lecturer, Oxford University
* 2001 Member of Academia Europaea
* 2002 Original Member, Highly Cited Researchers database, ISI
* 2003 Honorary Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge

Ecclesiastical

* 1999 Ordained Deacon Church of England
* 2000 Ordained Priest Church of England

Books

# Applied Functional Data Analysis: Methods and Case Studies by J. O. Ramsay and B. W. Silverman. Springer, 2002.
# Wavelets: The Key to Intermittent Information? edited by B. W. Silverman and J. C. Vassilicos. Oxford University Press, 2000.
# Functional Data Analysis by J. O. Ramsay and B. W. Silverman. Springer, 1997. (Second edition, expanded and rewritten, published 2005)
# Nonparametric Regression and Generalized Linear Models: A Roughness Penalty Approach by P. J. Green and B. W. Silverman. Chapman and Hall, 1994.
# Density Estimation for Statistics and Data Analysis by B. W. Silverman. Chapman and Hall, 1986.

ources and Links

* [http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~silverma/pdf/silvermancv.pdf Bernard Silverman's CV]
* [http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~silverma/ Bernard Silverman web-page]