The Pfizer Colloquium began in 1978 at University of Connecticut-Storrs under the leadership of the Late Professor
Harry O. Posten (University of Connecticut-Storrs) and Dr. David S. Salsburg (Pfizer Global Research and
Development-Groton, Connecticut). In view of the historical importance of this project, this joint initiative has been
continually supported by funding from Pfizer Global Research and Development-Groton, Connecticut, the Department of
Statistics at the University of Connecticut-Storrs, and the American Statistical Association (ASA). After Professor
Posten’s death in March 2002 and Dr. Salsburg’s retirement from Pfizer, Professor Nitis Mukhopadhyay of the University
of Connecticut-Storrs and Dr. Naitee Ting (then with Pfizer) served as program leaders for the respective
organizations. After Dr. Ting moved to Boehringer-Ingelheim, Dr. William T. Duggan of Pfizer took over the role of Dr.
Ting in August 2009. The current Steering Committee members include Dr. Demissie Alemayehu (Pfizer), Professor Dipak
Dey (UConn) and Dr. Ron Wasserstein (ASA).
Along with this featured guest of honor, two other distinguished statisticians are also normally invited. The featured
guest of honor delivers a special lecture under the auspices of “Pfizer Colloquia by Distinguished Statisticians in
Honor of Dr. David S. Salsburg”. Then, a “conversation” with the featured guest of honor and the other two
distinguished statisticians is arranged under the auspices of “Conversations with Distinguished Statisticians in
Memory of Professor Harry O. Posten”. These are campus-wide live events, normally held on a Thursday evening, and they
are open to all, free of any charge.
Pfizer Colloquium | Speaker | Affiliation | Year | Other Links |
25 | Nan Laird | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health | 2020 | Link |
24 | Grace Wahba | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2018 | Link |
23 | Pranab K. Sen |
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | 2012 | |
22 | Stephen E. Fienberg |
Carnegie Mellon University | 2009 | Link |
21 | Barbara A. Bailar |
Statistical Consultant | 2007 | Link |
20 | Emanuel Parzen |
Texas A & M University | 2006 | Link |
19 | C.C. Heyde |
Columbia University | 2005 | |
18 | David R. Brillinger |
University of California, Berkeley | 2004 | Link |
17 | Bradley Efron |
Stanford University | 2001 | Link |
16 | Janet Norwood |
The Urban Institute | 2000 | |
15 | Robert V. Hogg |
University of Iowa | 1998 | Link |
14 | Ingram Olkin |
Stanford University | 1997 | Link |
13 | Theodore W. Anderson |
Stanford University | 1995 | Link |
12 | David R. Cox |
University of Oxford | 1994 | Link |
11 | Erich Lehmann |
University of California, Berkeley | 1992 | Link |
10 | Herbert Robbins |
Rutgers University | 1990 | Link |
9 | Herman Chernoff |
Harvard University | 1989 | Link |
8 | Frederick Mosteller |
Harvard University | 1987 | |
7 | Morris H. Hansen |
Westat, Inc. | 1985 | Link |
6 | Churchill Eisenhart | National Bureau of Standards | 1984 | |
5 | Gottfried Noether |
University of Connecticut | 1983 | |
4 | C.R. Rao |
University of Pittsburgh and Indian Statistical Institute | 1981 | Link |
3 | Harold Cramér |
Stockholm University | 1980 | |
2 | Jerzy Neyman |
University of California, Berkeley | 1979 | |
1 | C.R. Rao | Indian Statistical Institute | 1978 |