Robin Sibson

Robin Sibson
Born(1944-05-04)4 May 1944
Died19 March 2017(2017-03-19) (aged 72)
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Known forNatural neighbour interpolation
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Bath
Doctoral advisorDavid George Kendall
Doctoral studentsGuy Nason

Robin Sibson (4 May 1944 – 19 March 2017)[1] was a British mathematician and educator.

He was a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, professor of statistics at the University of Bath and then vice-chancellor of the University of Kent. He was chief executive of the Higher Education Statistics Agency from 2001[2] until 2009.[3] He was also a member of the Committee for Higher Education and Research (CC-HER),[4] the predecessor to the Steering Committee for Higher Education and Research (CDESR).[5]

He died on 19 March 2017 at the age of 72.[6]

Research

He was the developer of natural neighbour interpolation on discrete sets of points in space.[7]

Selected bibliography

Books

  • Sibson, Robin; Jardine, Nicholas (1971). Mathematical taxonomy. London, New York: Wiley. ISBN 9780471440505.

Chapter in books

  • Sibson, Robin (1981), "A brief description of natural neighbour interpolation", in Barnett, Vic (ed.), Interpreting multivariate data, Chichester West Sussex New York: Wiley, pp. 21–35, ISBN 9780471280392

References

  1. ^ "Birthday's today". The Telegraph. 4 May 2011. Archived from the original on 5 May 2011. Retrieved 26 April 2014. Prof Robin Sibson, Chief Executive, Higher Education Statistics Agency, 2001–09, 67
  2. ^ "Professor Robin Sibson appointed as new Chief Executive of HESA (press release 42)". Higher Education Statistics Agency. 7 July 2000. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
  3. ^ "Alison Allden appointed Chief Executive of HESA (press release 132)". HESA. 14 April 2009. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
  4. ^ Ballester, José María; Mazza, Gabriele (2006), "Foreword", in Bergan, Sjur; Sanz, Nuria (eds.), The heritage of European universities, Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing, pp. 9–10, ISBN 9789287161215, Our thanks also go to Professor Robin Sibson, former Vice Chancellor of the University of Kent at Canterbury and a member of the CC-HER Bureau, who launched the idea of including the university heritage in the campaign in the first place.
  5. ^ "Universities as Sites of Citizenship". Council of Europe. Retrieved 26 April 2014. As a follow-up to one of its preliminary contributions to the definition of the concept of citizenship, the CC-HER (Higher Education and Research Committee, predecessor of the CDESR) adopted, at its 6th plenary session on 16–18 March 1999, an outline project called "University as site of citizenship" and instructed its Bureau and its Secretariat to develop the project further.
  6. ^ Prof. Robin Sibson
  7. ^ Sibson, Robin (1981), "A brief description of natural neighbour interpolation", in Barnett, Vic (ed.), Interpreting multivariate data, Chichester West Sussex New York: Wiley, pp. 21–35, ISBN 9780471280392


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