The University of Delaware's Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics welcomes Prof. Richard De Veaux as the featured speaker of the W.L. Gore Lecture Series in Management Science at 6 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 10, in Clayton Hall. A reception will follow the lecture.

The W.L.Gore Lecture Series in Management Science is sponsored by an endowment from the Gore family. It features experts in the application of probability, statistics, and experimental design to decision making, including applications in academia, business, government, engineering and medicine.

De Veaux is the C. Carlise and Margaret Tippit Professor of Statistics and currently serves as chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Williams College. He holds degrees in civil engineering (Princeton), mathematics (Princeton), dance education and and statistics (Stanford). He has won numerous teaching awards from the Engineering Council at Princeton. He has won both the Wilcoxon and Shewell (twice) awards from the American Society for Quality, is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and an elected member of the International Statistical Institue.

W.L.Gore Lecture Series in Management Science recognizes the key role that the fields of probability, statistics, and experimental design have played in the success of W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. The inaugural lecture in this series was given in March 2011.

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