This lecture series in honor of  Georges Matheron, a  leader in the field of geostatistics, was initiated in 2005, and the first lecture was given in 2006 at the IAMG Annual Meeting in Liège, Belgium.

The Georges Matheron Lecturer Committee, chaired by a Vice President, selects two (2) other members of the Association familiar with the work of Georges Matheron to serve on the committee in accordance with By-Law 7, and seeks nominations and selects each year a Georges Matheron Lecturer who is a scientist with proven research ability in the field of spatial statistics or mathematical morphology. The Director of the École des Mines Centre de Géostatistiques in Fontainebleau (France) serves as non-voting member ex officio. Members of the Georges Matheron Lecturer Committee are ineligible to be selected as Georges Matheron Lecturer while serving on the committee.

Letters of nomination should include a curriculum vitae of the nominee and a short statement summarizing the ways in which he or she fulfills the nomination criteria.

Letters should be directed to the Chair of the Georges Matheron Lecturer Committee by e-mail to:
           qiuming@yorku.ca

or by regular mail to :

Qiuming Cheng
Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario  M3J1P3
Canada
Tel: +1-416-7362100-22842; Fax: +1-416-736-5817

Georges Matheron Lecturer Committee:

Qiuming Cheng - Chair (York University, Canada;
        China University of Geosciences, China)
Katsuaki Koike (Kumamoto University, Japan)
Jean Serra (École des Mines, France)
 

Lecturers and Topics:

2006 Jean Serra (École des Mines, France): Random set modelling

2007 Wynand Kleingeld (De Beers, South Africa): Narrating on a journey to solve a sampling problem

2008 Adrian Baddeley (Univ. of Western Australia): Special point process models on exploration geology

2009 Jean-Laurent Mallet (École Nationale Superieure de Géologie, Nancy Université, France):
GeoChron: A Mathematical framework for sedimentary geology

2010 Donald A. Singer (United States Geological Survey) :
Solving the wrong resource assessment and exploration problems precisely

last update: 2010--11-27