# Lukacs Distinguished Professor

The Lukacs Distinguished Professor chair was established in 1989 by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Bowling Green State University in honor of Eugene Lukacs, who came to Bowling Green with his colleagues Radha Laha and Vijay Rohatgi in 1972 to establish the doctoral program in statistics. Eugene Lukacs was Bowling Green's first Distinguished University Professor.
Each year an outstanding senior researcher in probability or statistics is invited to serve as the Eugene Lukacs Distinguished Visiting Professor during the academic year or a semester. The Lukacs Professors are invited based on their distinguished record of research in the application or theory of probability or statistics. The Lukacs professor typically collaborates with current faculty on research, participates in seminars and colloquia, and typically gives a graduate course or presents a series of related seminars. Lukacs Professors have organized Lukacs Symposia on a variety of topics in probability and statistics.

## Lukacs Distinguished Visiting Professors

| Year | Professor | Institution |
| 1990–1991 | Gábor J. Székely | Budapest Institute of Technology, Hungary |
| 1991–1992 | Tim Robertson | University of Iowa |
| 1992–1993 | Samuel Kotz | University of Maryland |
| 1992–1993 | A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh | Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| 1993–1994 | Malay Ghosh | University of Florida |
| 1993–1994 | Anatoliy Skorokhod | Michigan State University |
| 1994–1995 | Abram Kagan | University of Maryland |
| 1995–1996 | Vyacheslav Girko | Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences |
| 1996–1997 | Pranab K. Sen | University of North Carolina |
| 1997–1998 | C. R. Rao | Pennsylvania State University |
| 1998–1999 | G. P. Patil | Pennsylvania State University |
| 1999 Fall semester | Kanti V. Mardia | University of Leeds |
| 1999 Fall semester | Raju Govindarajulu | University of Kentucky |
| 2000 Spring semester | Nail Bakirov | Russian Academy of Sciences |
| 2000 March 13–17 | James Berger | Duke University |
| 2000 Fall semester | Nozer Singpurwalla | George Washington University |
| 2001 March 19–30 | Norbert Henze | University of Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 2001 April 1–5 | Bradley Efron | Stanford University |
| 2001 Fall semester | Yasunori Fujikoshi | Hiroshima University, Japan |
| 2002 Spring semester | Hung T. Nguyen | New Mexico State University |
| 2002 April 8–12 | Peter J. Bickel | University of California, Berkeley |
| 2003 March 28 – April 2 | C. C. Heyde | Columbia University and Australian National University |
| 2003 Spring semester | Damodar Shanbhag | University of Sheffield, U.K. |
| 2003 Fall semester | Eugene Seneta | University of Sydney, Australia |
| 2004 Spring semester | Leandro Pardo | Complutense University of Madrid, Spain |
| 2005 Spring semester | N. Balakrishnan | McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
| 2006 May 30 – June 3 | Ioannis Karatzas | Columbia University |
| 2006 June 12 – June 15 | Donald St. P. Richards | Pennsylvania State University |
| 2007 Spring semester | M. S. Srivastava | University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Lukacs Symposia :
| Year | Lukacs Professor | Symposium | Title |
| 1990–1991 | Gabor J. Szekely | First Lukacs Symposium, March 1991 | Probability and Statistics |
| 1991–1992 | Tim Robertson and Sam Kotz | Second Lukacs Symposium, March 1992 | Order Restricted Statistical Inference |
| 1992–1993 | A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh | Third Lukacs Symposium – March 1993 | Revival of Distributions and Regression Quantiles |
| 1993–1994 | Malay Ghosh and Anatoliy Skorokhod | Fourth Lukacs Symposium – March 1994 | Infinite Dimensional Randomly Perturbed Dynamical Systems |
| 1994–1995 | Abram Kagan | Fifth Lukacs Symposium – March 1995 | Statistical Inference in Semiparametric Models |
| 1995–1996 | Vyacheslav Girko | Sixth Lukacs Symposium – March 1996 | Multidimensional Statistical Analysis and Theory of Random Matrices |
| 1996–1997 | Pranab K. Sen | Seventh Lukacs Symposium – April 1997 | (1999) Robustness in Multivariate and Survival Models |
| 1997–1998 | C. R. Rao | Eighth Lukacs Symposium — April 1998 | Statistics for the 21st Century |
| 1998–1999 | G. P. Patil | Ninth Lukacs Symposium — April 1999 | Frontiers of Environmental and Ecological Statistics for the 21st Century |
| 2005 | N. Balakrishnan | April 15–16, 2005 May 14, 2005 | "Statistical Distributions and Applications" "Ordered Data and Applications" |