From left: Partha Lahiri, Junni Zhang, Don Rubin, and Asis Chattopadhyay; photo taken by Gaurangadeb Chatopadhyay shortly after the S.N Roy Memorial Lecture, December 27, 2018.

Donald Rubin delivered the S.N Roy Memorial lecture, “Conditional Calibration and the Sage Statistician,” December 27, 2018, at the 10th International Triennial Symposium, held at Calcutta University.

Rubin is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and has received numerous honors and awards. He is a professor at the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University; a Murray Shusterman Senior Research Fellow, Fox School of Business; and professor emeritus, Harvard University.

In 1966, the department of statistics at Calcutta University started the distinguished lecture series in honor of S.N. Roy.