This just received from John Wormald:
I was informed recently that Peter Hall was held in such high regard by the University of Melbourne that a building on the campus has been renamed in his memory:
I also found this reference to his award of the Order of Australia. It has a full list of his achievements, which is quite impressive.
Professor Peter Gavin Hall
Officer of the Order of Australia
Professor Peter Gavin Hall AO FRS FAA FAustMS has been made an Officer of
the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours for distinguished service to
mathematical science in the field of statistics through international contributions
to research, as an academic and mentor, and through leadership of advisory and
professional organisations.
• Professor of Statistics and Australian Laureate Fellow, Department of
Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, since 2006
• Distinguished Professor of Statistics, University of California, Davis, USA,
since 2006
• Australian Laureate Fellow, Australian Research Council, 2012–2016
• Professor of Statistics, Australian National University, 1988–2006
• Honorary Fellow, Division of Mathematics and Statistics, CSIRO, 1990
• Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee, Australian Mathematical Sciences
Institute, 2002–2009
• Member, Advisory Board, KAUST Institute for Applied Mathematics and
Computational Science
• Member, International Advisory Committee, Department of Business Statistics
and Econometrics, Peking University, China
• Deputy Chair, International Review of Mathematics, UK, 2010
• Member, Working Party for the National Strategic Review of Mathematical
Sciences Research in Australia, 2006
• Member, Reference Committee for the Group of Eight Universities’ Review
of Education in Mathematics, Data Science and Quantitative Disciplines,
2009
• Secretary (Physical Sciences)/Vice-President, Australian Academy of Science,
2008–2012
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• President, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2010-2011
• President, Australian Mathematical Society, 2006–2008
• President, Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability,
2000–2002
• Member, Statistical Society of Australia
• Member, International Statistical Institute
• Member, International Chinese Statistical Association
• Fellow, Royal Society, 2000
• Fellow, American Statistical Association, 1996
• Fellow, Australian Academy of Science, 1987
• Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1984.
Publications include
• The Bootstrap and Edgeworth Expansion (1992)
• Introduction to the Theory of Coverage Processes (1988)
• Rates of Convergence in the Central Limit Theorem (1982)
• Martingale Limit Theory and its Application (1980).
Awards/recognition include
• Centenary Medal, 2001.
