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Biographical Information
Education
- A.B., Harvard, 1968, magna cum laude, History and Literature.
- M.A., Oxford, 1971, by special decree, Applied Mathematics.
- Ph. D., Cambridge, 1974, Statistics.
- Ph.D. Dissertation :
"Foundations of the Asymptotic Theory of Random Matrix Spectra,"
supervised by D. G. Kendall and J. F. C. Kingman, 4 June 1974.
Awards
- Distinguished Teaching Award, Division of Social Sciences, UCB, 2002.
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 27 April 1999.
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, April 1996.
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1997
- Fellow of the American Statistical Association, 1986
- Mindel Sheps Award of the Population Association of America, 1986.
- Phi Beta Kappa Junior Eight, 1967.
- Harvard Prize for History and Literature, 1967.
- Named Presidential Scholar by President Johnson, June 1964.
Chronology of Positions
- 1997-, Chair, Dept. of Demography, U.C. Berkeley
- 1985-, Professor of Demography and Statistics, U.C. Berkeley
- 1979-85, Associate Professor of Demography and Statistics, U.C. Berkeley.
- 1977-79, Miller Fellow in Statistics, University of California, Berkeley.
- 1974-78, Assistant/Associate Professor of Statistics, Harvard University.
- 1971-74, Research Fellow, St. Catherine's College, Oxford.
- 1970-71, Keasbey Memorial Scholar, Trinity College, Cambridge.
- 1968-69, Associate Member of Technical Staff, Bell Telephone Laboratories.
- 1964-68, Undergraduate, History and Litrature, Harvard College.
- 1958-64, Student, The Pingry School, Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Recent Professional Service
- Chair, Committee on Population, National Research Council, 2002-.
- Member, Committee on Population, National Research Council, 1999-.
- Editorial Board, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., 2000--2005.
- Board of Directors, Population Association of America, 1999-2002.
- Chair, National Research Council Workshop on the
Biodemography of Fertility and Family Formation Behavior, 2000-2003.
- Chair, Fachbeirat, Max Planck Institut fuer Demografische Forschung,
Rostock, Germany, 1999-2005.
- Steering Committee, 2000 Census Briefs, Russell Sage Foundation and
Population Reference Bureau, 1999-2004.
- John J. Carty Award Committee, National Academy of Sciences, 2002-2003.
- Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, Enseignant Invite' 1986,1993,2001.
- Selection Panel, Los Angeles Times Science Book Awards, 2000-2002.
