The Laurence Baxter Memorial Lectures

Friday April 9, 1999
10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Student Activities Center, Rm 302,
Stony Brook, Long Island, New York

No charge to attend. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. There is a suggested contribution of $25 to continue to series. E-mail registration to Nancy Mendell or to Stephen Finch

Schedule

10:00 Reception and Registration
10:15-11:15 Risk and Duality in Multidimensions, Karl Sigman, Columbia University (joint work with Bartek Blaszczyszyn, University of Wroclaw, Poland)

11:30-12:30 Continuous Time Jump Markov Decision Processes, Eugene A. Feinberg, SUNY at Stony Brook

12:30-2:00 Lunch

2:00-3:00 Strategies for Map Smoothing, Gary Simon, New York University

3:-3:30 Reception

Lawrence Baxter

Laurence Baxter died on November 8, 1996, at the age of 42, after a long struggle with an illness sustained with great courage and grace. A citizen of Great Britain, he earned his B.Sc. degree in statistics with First Class Honors in 1975 and his Ph.D. degree in 1980 from the University College of London. He joined the faculty at Stony Brook in 1981 as an assistant professor and became Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics in 1985. While at Stony Brook he was known as a superb lecturer and directed six Ph.D. students who now are employed in industry and academe throughout the world. His students and colleagues will remember him fondly for his warmth, his dedication, and his excellent wit.

Laurence's contributions to Operations Research are well known in the areas of applied probability and reliability theory in which he had over 50 publications. He also did extensive consulting in this area at places such as AT&T Bell Laboratories. He conceived of and was Editor-in-Chief of the Stochastic Modeling Series published by Chapman and Hall. He was Editor of the Applied Probability Newsletter and Associate Editor for the Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the Journal of Mathematical Analysis & Applications, Naval Research Logistics and the International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management. Laurence was a member of the Royal Statistical Society, the American Statistical Society and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

Laurence is survived by his wife Deborah Miller of New York City and Head of the Harbor, New York, his parents, Herbert and Beatrice Baxter, his two siblings, Michael Baxter and Gillian Baxter Miller and three nephews, who still reside in England.

Donations for the Memorial Lecture Series at Stony Brook

A lecture series in memory of Laurence Baxter has been created at the University of New York at Stony Brook in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics. Donations are welcome to sustain the series, checks should be made out to:

"Stony Brook Foundation - Laurence Baxter Memorial Lecture"
and sent to :
Professor Nancy Mendell
Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
SUNY Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY
11794-3600. USA

For further information contact nmendell@ams.sunysb.edu ( Nancy Mendell )