Madan Lal Puri

Background

Puri, Madan Lal was born on February 20, 1929 in Sialkot. Son of Ganesh Das and S. V. Puri. came to the United States, 1957, naturalized, 1973.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Punjab U., India, 1948; Master of Arts, Punjab U., India, 1950; Doctor of Science, Punjab U., India, 1975; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley, 1962.

Career

Head department mathematics, Dayanand Anglo-Vedic College, Punjab U., 1955-1957; instructor, U. Colorado, 1957-1958; teaching assistant, research assistant, junior research statistician, University of California at Berkeley, 1958-1962; assistant professor, associate professor mathematics, Courant Institute, New York University, 1962-1968; visiting associate professor, U. North Carolina, summers 1966-1967; professor mathematics, Indiana U., Bloomington, since 1968. Guest professor statistics U. Gottingen, West Germany, 1972, Alexander von Humboldt guest professor, 1974-1975. Guest professor of University Dortmund, West Germany, 1972, Technische Hochschule Aachen, West Germany, 1973, U. Goteborg, Chalmers U. Technology, both Sweden, 1974.

Visiting professor U. Auckland, New Zealand, 1977, University of California, Irvine, 1978, U. Washington, Seattle, 1978-1979, U. Bern (Switzerland), 1982, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1988. Distinguished visitor London School Economics and Political Science, 1991. Visiting professor U. Göttingen, Germany, 1991, June-July 1992.

Research fellow Katholieke U., Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 1992. Visiting professor U. Des Sciences et Technology de Lille, France, 1994, U. Basel, Switzerland, since 1995, U. New South Wales, Australia, 1996.

Achievements

• Madan Lal Puri has been listed as a noteworthy Mathematics educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Statistical Inference and Related Topics
  • Nonparametric Techniques in Statistical Inference by Madan Lal Puri (2009-03-09)

Membership

Fellow Royal Statistical Society, Institute Mathematics Statistics, American Statistical Association;member Mathematics Association American, International Statistical Institute, Bernoulli Society Mathematics Statistics and Probability. M C.

Connections

Married Uma Kapur, August 24, 1962. 3 children.

Father:

Ganesh Das

Mother:

S. V. Puri

Spouse:

Uma Kapur