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Activity Number:
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554
- Memorial Session for Emanuel Parzen
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Invited
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Wednesday, August 2, 2017 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Memorial
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Abstract #321927
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Title:
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Manny Parzen, Friend and Colleague
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Author(s):
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Grace Wahba*
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Companies:
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University of Wisconsin
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Abstract:
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According to the Mathematics Genealogy project I was Manny Parzen's fifth student (PhD 1966, Postdoc 1967). Manny was a truly wonderful advisor and mentor and we remained friends for fifty years. Seeing Manny and Carol at JSM and numerous other meetings over the years was always a time of happy reunion. There are many fond memories. I learned about reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces as a student in one of his classes that occasionally met on the lawn in front of the old Sequoia Hall at Stanford in the 60's. In fact I knew Manny by his books Modern Probability and Stochastic Processes before I arrived at Stanford. And his classic paper "Statistical inference on time series by RKHS methods" served as a font of ideas as I embarked on an academic career. Manny gave me an autographed copy of an original reprint at a meeting in his honor at the University of Connecticut in 2006, which is a cherished possession. Manny was one of the greats and we have lost a beloved friend and colleague.
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