The Corcoran Memorial lectures are named in memory of Stephen Corcoran who was a graduate student in the Department of Statistics until his death in 1996. Stephen was a student of Wadham College, Oxford and graduated First Class Honours in Mathematics in 1991.  He subsequently gained a Diploma in Mathematical Statistics from Cambridge University before returning to Oxford to study for a DPhil in Statistics.

Stephen's research was in the field of empirical likelihood. He made substantial progress in this work but sadly his thesis remained unfinished at the time of his death from cancer. Part of Stephen's uncompleted thesis was edited by Professor A. C. Davison and published in Biometrika (1998, pages 967-972).

A family bequest has established an annual lecture in honour of Stephen in which distinguished guest lecturers are invited to deliver a lecture on important aspects of their work. In addition, the Corcoran Memorial Prize is awarded every two years to students of the Department of Statistics for outstanding graduate work. The prizewinners are also invited to give a lecture.

Corcoran Memorial Prize Awards

  • 1998 - Mark Mathieson
  • 2000 - Dr Matthew Stephens
  • 2002 - Dr Yih-Choung Teh
  • 2004 - Dr Anja Sturm
  • 2006 - Dr Simon Myers
  • 2008 - Dr Ludger Evers & Dr Chris Spender (joint winners)
  • 2010 - Dr Chris Yau
  • 2012 - Dr Robin Ryder
  • 2014 - Dr Therese Graversen
  • 2016 - Dr Fiona Skerman
  • 2018 - Dr Sarah Penington
  • 2020 - Dr Chris J. Maddison

Past Corcoran Memorial Lectures

Corcoran Memorial Lecture 2022

Thursday 1st December 2022, 3.30 pm

 

Professor Ruth Keogh (The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

 

From population to person: Counterfactual risk prediction

 

For full details see Corcoran Memorial Lecture 2022