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Department of Statistics

Markus Pauly selected for Gumbel Lecture 2022

North Campus at sunset © Ekkehard Reinsch

Prof. Dr. Markus Pauly has been selected to deliver this year's Gumbel Lecture of the German Statistical Society (DStatG). The Gumbel Lecture, which was held for the first time at the Statistical Week 2006, bears the name of the German statistician Emil Julius Gumbel.

As a population statistician and founder of extreme value statistics in the 1930s, Gumbel is one of the most important representatives of his field. Starting from the actuarial problem of mortality tables and lifetime distributions, he investigated the maximum of independent random variables and derived their limiting distributions. He applied his theoretical findings not only to actuarial science, but also to climate research - specifically, to the prediction of floods and other climatic extremes. This and other information about Gumbel's work and life is recorded on the DStatG website.

Prof. Pauly will give his lecture titled "From world permuter to woodman thanks to resampling" as part of this year's Statistical Week, which will be held at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster from Sept. 20 to Sept. 23, 2022.