Dr. Warren J. Ewens, professor of biology and director of the Bioinformatics Center at the University of Pennsylvania, will deliver this year's C. Clark Cockerham Lecture at 4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 11, in Witherspoon Auditorium.

Following a reception at 3:30 p.m. in Witherspoon's Student Center, Ewens will speak on "Statistical Concepts in Bioinformatics."

Ewens is known for his theoretical research in population and human genetics. He has written over 100 scientific papers and two books, "Population Genetics" (1969), and "Mathematical Population Genetics" (1979). He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics from the University of Melbourne, and his Ph.D. in statistics from the Australian National University in 1964.

The Cockerham Lecture is part of the Statistical and Quantitative Genetics Symposium, which begins at 1 p.m. in Witherspoon. Sponsored by the departments of Statistics and Genetics and by the Cockerham Lecture Endowment, the symposium is free and open to the campus community.

Other speakers include Dr. Michael T. Clegg of the University of California at Riverside; Dr. William G. Hill of the University of Edinburgh; and Dr. Elizabeth A. Thompson of the University of Washington.

The Cockerham Lecture is named in honor of the late Dr. C. Clark Cockerham, a Distinguished University Professor of Statistics and Genetics who directed the university's program in quantitative genetics from 1960 to 1990.

Posted October 10, 2002

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