The University of Guyana’s Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Mathematics, Physics and Statistics will be launching a lecture series on undergraduate research in Mathematics and Statistics by Professor Balgobin Nandram.
The series will begin on Monday, May 9, 2022, at 18:00 h via the Zoom platform.
The title of the first lecture is Bayesian Data Integration. Professor Nandram, who is Guyanese, received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics (Passed with Distinction) from the Department of Mathematics, in 1977. He also received Diploma in Education (Mathematics Education) from the Faculty of Education in 1979.
He earned a Master’s Degree in Applied Statistics at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in 1981. He then returned to Guyana, and after three years, he went to the United States. He studied at first at the State University of New York at Albany, and after one year, he moved to the University of Iowa where he earned the Ph.D. in statistics after an additional four years.
Since 2003, Professor Nandram has been working as a full Professor of Statistics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, USA. He has published nearly 200 peer reviewed research articles, guided more than 20 students for PhD degree in Statistics, and nearly 30 students for the MS degree (also in Statistics). He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, an elected member the International Statistical Institute and Sigma Xi, the scientific Society of America.
To join the event, interested persons can use the following link: https://zoom.us/j/91253709911
