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6:00 p.m.

The eminent historian of statistics Stephen M. Stigler, who is the Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor and chair of the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago, will present the 2010 John M. Chemerda Lectures in Science on 26 and 27 April 2010 on the Penn State University Park campus.  Stigler will give a public lecture titled “The Five Most Consequential Ideas in the History of Statistics” at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, 26 April, in 101 Thomas Building.

He also will present two lectures of a more technical nature on 27 April.  The first of these additional lectures, titled “Darwin, Galton, and the Statistical Enlightenment,” will take place at 1:25 p.m. in 104 Thomas Building.  The second, titled “Hedge Funds, Dice, and the Origin of Mathematical Probability,” will take place at 4:15 p.m. in 101 Thomas Building.  These free public lectures are sponsored by the Penn State Eberly College of Science.

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WEBSITE: http://www.science.psu.edu/news-and-events/2010-news/Chemerda3-2010