Magda Peligrad is a Romanian

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and mathematical statistician known for her research in

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, and particularly on

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s and

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es. She works at the

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, where she is Distinguished Charles Phelps Taft Professor of Mathematical Sciences.

Education and career

Peligrad obtained her Ph.D. in 1980 from the Center of Statistics of the

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. By 1983 she was working at the

Sapienza University of Rome The Sapienza University of Rome (), formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", abbreviated simply as Sapienza ('Wisdom'), is a Public university, public research university located in Rome, Italy. It was founded in 1303 and is ...

and by 1984 she had arrived at Cincinnati, where since 1988 she has supervised the dissertations of seven doctoral students. With

Florence Merlevède Florence Merlevède is a French probability theorist whose research interests focus on dependent and weakly dependent random variables, including Bernstein inequalities and central limit theorems for these variables. She is a professor in the ...

and Sergey Utev, she is coauthor of the book ''Functional Gaussian Approximation for Dependent Structures'' (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Recognition

In 1995, Peligrad was elected as a Fellow of the

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, which she had served in 1990 as the Institute's representative to the Joint Committee on Women in Mathematical Sciences, an umbrella organization for women in eight societies of mathematics and statistics. A conference on "limit theorems for dependent data and applications" was organized in her honor in Paris in 2010, celebrating her 60th birthday, by the researchers at four Parisian universities. She was named Taft professor in 2004.

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