Bernard Silverman

Bernard Walter Silverman, (born 22 February 1952) is a British statistician and Anglican Priest. He was Master of St Peter's College, Oxford from 1 October 2003 to 31 December 2009. He is a member of the Statistics Department at Oxford University, and is also attached to the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, and the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance. He has been a member of the Council of Oxford University and of the Council of the Royal Society. He was briefly President of the Royal Statistical Society in January 2010, a position from which he stood down upon announcement of his appointment as Chief Scientific Advisor to the Home Office.

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• Career
• Degrees and qualifications
• Awards and honours
• Ecclesiastical career
• Books
• References

Career

1970–73 Undergraduate, Jesus College, Cambridge.

1973–74 Graduate Student, Jesus College, Cambridge.

1974–75 Research Student, Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge.

1975–77 Research Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.

1976–77 Calculator Development Manager, Sinclair Radionics Ltd.

1977–78 Junior Lecturer in Statistics, Oxford University and Weir Junior Research Fellow of University College, Oxford.

1978–80 Lecturer in Statistics, University of Bath.

1981–84 Reader in Statistics, University of Bath.

1984 and 1992–93 Head of Statistics Group, University of Bath.

1984–93 Professor of Statistics, University of Bath.

1988–91 Head of School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath.

1993–2003 Professor of Statistics, University of Bristol

1993–97 and 1998–99 Head of Statistics Group, University of Bristol

1999–2003 Henry Overton Wills Professor of Mathematics, University of Bristol

2000–03 Provost of the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol

2003–09 Master of St Peter's College, Oxford

2010– Senior Research Fellow, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford (part-time)

2010– Professorial Research Associate, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford (part-time)

2010– Chief Scientific Advisor, Home Office

Degrees and qualifications

1973 Bachelor of Arts, Cambridge. (Wrangler)

1974 Part III of Mathematical Tripos, Cambridge (with Distinction)

1977 Doctor of Philosophy, Cambridge

1989 Doctor of Science, Cambridge

1993 Chartered Statistician, Royal Statistical Society

2000 Bachelor of Theology, Southampton (First Class Honours) through STETS

Awards and honours

1970 Gold Medal, International Mathematical Olympiad

1974 Mayhew Prize for Mathematical Tripos Part III, University of Cambridge

1976 Smith's Prize, Cambridge University

1984 Royal Statistical Society Guy Medal in Bronze

1985 Special Invited Paper, Institute of Mathematical Statistics

1988 Technometrics Special Discussion Paper, American Statistical Association

1991 Presidents' Award of the Committee of presidents of Statistical Societies

1993 Fulkerson Lecturer, Cornell University

1995 Royal Statistical Society Guy Medal in Silver

1997 Fellow of the Royal Society

1999 Special Invited Paper, Institute of Mathematical Statistics

1999 Henri Willem Methorst Medal, International Statistical Institute

2000 Corcoran Lecturer, Oxford University

2001 Member of Academia Europaea

2002 Original Member, Highly Cited Researchers database, ISI

2003 Honorary Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge

Ecclesiastical career

Silverman was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1999 and as a priest in 2000. From 1999 to 2005, he was an honorary assistant curate of Cotham Parish Church in the Diocese of Bristol. Between 2005-2009, he held Permission to Officiate in the Diocese of Oxford. Then, from 2009 to 2015, he was an honorary assistant curate of St Giles' Church and St Margaret's Church, Oxford. Since 2015, he has held Permission to Officiate in both the Diocese of Oxford and in the Diocese of London.

Books

Green, P.J.; Silverman, B.W. (1994). Nonparametric Regression and Generalized Linear Models: A Roughness Penalty Approach. Chapman & Hall. 

Ramsay, J.O.; Silverman, B.W. (2002). Applied Functional Data Analysis: Methods and Case Studies. Springer-Verlag. 

Ramsay, J.O.; Silverman, B.W. (2005) [1997]. Functional Data Analysis (second, expanded and rewritten ed.). Springer-Verlag. 

Silverman, B.W. (1986). Density Estimation for Statistics and Data Analysis. Chapman & Hall. 

Silverman, B.W.; Vassilicos, J.C., eds. (2000). Wavelets: The Key to Intermittent Information?. Oxford University Press.