Peter Gavin Hall

Infobox Scientist
name = Peter Gavin Hall

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birth_date = birth date|1951|11|20|df=yes
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nationality = Australia
field = Mathematics, statistics
work_places = Australian National University
University of California Davis
alma_mater = University of Sydney
Australian National University
University of Oxford
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prizes = Rollo Davidson Prize (1986)

Peter Gavin Hall "FAA FRS" (born November 20, 1951) is an Australian researcher in probability theory and mathematical statistics. He is currently an ARC Federation Fellow in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Australia. [http://uninews.unimelb.edu.au/articleid_3404.html Seven new Federation Fellows for Melbourne. "The University of Melbourne: UniNews", Vol. 15, No. 9, 29 May - 12 June 2006] ] He previously held a Professorship in the Centre for Mathematics and its Applications at The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. His parents were Ruby Payne-Scott (a pioneer in radiophysics and radio astronomy) and telephone technician William Holman Hall, and his younger sister is the artistic photographer and sculptor Fiona Hall.

Contributions

Hall is among the world's most prolific and highly-cited authors in both probability and statistics. Mathscinet lists him with more than 500 publications as of January 2008. He has made very substantial and important contributions to nonparametric statistics, in particular for curve estimation and resampling: the bootstrap method, smoothing, density estimation, and bandwidth selection. He has worked on numerous applications across fields of economics, engineering, physical science and biological science. Hall has also made groundbreaking contributions to surface roughness measurement using fractals. In probability theory he has made many contributions to limit theory, spatial processes and stochastic geometry. His paper "Theoretical comparison of bootstrap confidence intervals" (Annals of Statistics, 1988) has been reprinted in the "Breakthroughs in Statistics" collection.

Hall teaches at the Statistics Department of the University of California Davis, and gives invited lectures and at conferences worldwide.

Honours and awards

Hall has obtained numerous awards and honors, including the Rollo Davidson Prize and the Australian Mathematical Society Medal in 1986, and the Pitman Medal in 1990. He was a S. S. Wilks Lecturer in 1988, Mahalanobis Memorial Lecturer in 1992, and Kolmogorov Lecturer in 1996. He became a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1987, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in 1990, and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1996. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2000.He holds a honorary degree at Université catholique de Louvain. For an extensive list of awards and honors see [http://www.cirs-tm.org/researchers/researchers.php?id=280 CIRS] .

Bibliography

* P. Hall; C.C. Heyde (1980): "Martingale Limit Theory and its Application", Academic Press, New York. ISBN 0123193508
* P. Hall (1982): "Rates of Convergence in the Central Limit Theorem", Pitman, London. ISBN 0273085654
* P. Hall (1988): "Introduction to the Theory of Coverage Processes", Wiley, New York. ISBN 0471857025
* P. Hall (1992): "The Bootstrap and Edgeworth Expansion", Springer, New York. ISBN 0387977201

References

External links

* [http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=79323 Mathematical genealogy of Peter Hall]
* [http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/Personnel/profile.php?PC_id=308 Peter Hall's Homepage at the University of Melbourne]
* [http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/author.cgi?id=1234&cb=97 ISI Highly Cited Researcher: Peter Hall]