The Mitchell Lectures
This lecture series was founded in 1925 through an endowment generously established by Sir George Arthur Mitchell, a prominent Glasgow industrialist and a graduate of the University. The endowment reflected the importance Mitchell attached to good use of statistical methods within the business community. At various times, the endowment has been used to support the appointment of staff within the University but in its most recent form it has allowed statisticians of the highest international prominence to be brought to the University for high profile visits to give public lectures and to interact with staff and research students.
Recent Mitchell Lectures
- 2024 Chris Wiggins
Chief Data Scientist, New York Times
Data Science at the New York Times - 2023 Prof Huixia Judy Wang
The George Washington University
Semiparametric approaches for studying extreme conditional quantiles
Recording available - 2022 Prof Alexandra M. Schmidt
McGill University
Modelling non-Gaussian spatio-temporal processes
Recording available - 2021 Prof Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri
Some Examples at the Interface of “AI” and Dynamic Statistical Models for Complex Environmental and Ecological Data
Recording available - 2019 Prof Brendan Murphy
University College Dublin
Clusters everywhere: A tour of cluster analysis and its application