The Lukacs Distinguished Professor chair was established in 1989 by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Bowling Green State University in honor of Eugene Lukacs, who came to Bowling Green with his colleagues Radha Laha and Vijay Rohatgi in 1972 to establish the doctoral program in statistics. Eugene Lukacs was Bowling Green's first Distinguished University Professor.

Each year an outstanding senior researcher in probability or statistics is invited to serve as the Eugene Lukacs Distinguished Visiting Professor during the academic year or a semester. The Lukacs Professors are invited based on their distinguished record of research in the application or theory of probability or statistics. The Lukacs professor typically collaborates with current faculty on research, participates in seminars and colloquia, and typically gives a graduate course or presents a series of related seminars. Lukacs Professors have organized Lukacs Symposia on a variety of topics in probability and statistics.

Lukacs Distinguished Visiting Professors

YearProfessorInstitution
1990–1991Gábor J. SzékelyBudapest Institute of Technology, Hungary
1991–1992Tim RobertsonUniversity of Iowa
1992–1993Samuel KotzUniversity of Maryland
1992–1993A. K. Md. Ehsanes SalehCarleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
1993–1994Malay GhoshUniversity of Florida
1993–1994Anatoliy SkorokhodMichigan State University
1994–1995Abram KaganUniversity of Maryland
1995–1996Vyacheslav GirkoUkrainian National Academy of Sciences
1996–1997Pranab K. SenUniversity of North Carolina
1997–1998C. R. RaoPennsylvania State University
1998–1999G. P. PatilPennsylvania State University
1999 Fall semesterKanti V. MardiaUniversity of Leeds
1999 Fall semesterRaju GovindarajuluUniversity of Kentucky
2000 Spring semesterNail BakirovRussian Academy of Sciences
2000 March 13–17James BergerDuke University
2000 Fall semesterNozer SingpurwallaGeorge Washington University
2001 March 19–30Norbert HenzeUniversity of Karlsruhe, Germany
2001 April 1–5Bradley EfronStanford University
2001 Fall semesterYasunori FujikoshiHiroshima University, Japan
2002 Spring semesterHung T. NguyenNew Mexico State University
2002 April 8–12Peter J. BickelUniversity of California, Berkeley
2003 March 28 – April 2C. C. HeydeColumbia University and Australian National University
2003 Spring semesterDamodar ShanbhagUniversity of Sheffield, U.K.
2003 Fall semesterEugene SenetaUniversity of Sydney, Australia
2004 Spring semesterLeandro PardoComplutense University of Madrid, Spain
2005 Spring semesterN. BalakrishnanMcMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
2006 May 30 – June 3Ioannis KaratzasColumbia University
2006 June 12 – June 15Donald St. P. RichardsPennsylvania State University
2007 Spring semesterM. S. SrivastavaUniversity of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lukacs Symposia
YearLukacs ProfessorSymposiumTitle
1990–1991Gabor J. SzekelyFirst Lukacs Symposium, March 1991Probability and Statistics
1991–1992Tim Robertson and Sam KotzSecond Lukacs Symposium, March 1992Order Restricted Statistical Inference
1992–1993A. K. Md. Ehsanes SalehThird Lukacs Symposium – March 1993Revival of Distributions and Regression Quantiles
1993–1994Malay Ghosh and Anatoliy SkorokhodFourth Lukacs Symposium – March 1994Infinite Dimensional Randomly Perturbed Dynamical Systems
1994–1995Abram KaganFifth Lukacs Symposium – March 1995Statistical Inference in Semiparametric Models
1995–1996Vyacheslav GirkoSixth Lukacs Symposium – March 1996Multidimensional Statistical Analysis and Theory of Random Matrices
1996–1997Pranab K. SenSeventh Lukacs Symposium – April 1997(1999) Robustness in Multivariate and Survival Models
1997–1998C. R. RaoEighth Lukacs Symposium — April 1998Statistics for the 21st Century
1998–1999G. P. PatilNinth Lukacs Symposium — April 1999Frontiers of Environmental and Ecological Statistics for the 21st Century
2005N. BalakrishnanApril 15–16, 2005 May 14, 2005"Statistical Distributions and Applications" "Ordered Data and Applications"

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  • , organized by C. R. Rao.
  • convened by G. P. Patil.