W.L. Gore Lecture Series in Management Science

The W.L. Gore Lecture Series in Management Science, which is sponsored by an endowment from the Gore family, features experts who apply probability, statistics and experimental design to decision making. Their work has applications in academia, business, government, engineering and medicine.

The lecture series recognizes the key role that the fields of probability, statistics, and experimental design have played in the success of W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. The inaugural lecture in this series was given in March 2011.

For more information, contact Darwin Davis or Caroline Swift.

Lecture History

2023
Dr. John V. Gray
Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Operations and Business Analytics, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University

2022
Dr. Richard D. De Veaux
C. Carlisle and Margaret Tippit Professor of Statistics, Williams College

2019
Dr. Katherine B. Ensor
Noah G. Harding Professor of Statistics, and Director, Center for Computational Finance and Economic Systems, Rice University

2017
Dr. A. Blanton Godfrey
Joseph D. Moore Distinguished University Professor of Textile & Apparel Technology & Management, College of Textiles, North Carolina State University

2016
Sinan Aral
David Austin Professor of Management & Associate Professor of IT & Marketing, MIT Sloan School of Management

2015
Dr. A. Parasuraman
James W. McLamore Chair in Marketing, Professor, and Department Chair, Marketing, School of Business Administration, University of Miami

2014
Dr. William H. Woodall
Professor of Statistics at Virginia Tech

2013
Dr. James M. Lucas
Principal at J.M. Lucas and Associates, Statistics and Quality Management

2013
Dr. Ron Snee
President of Snee Associates

2012
J. Stuart Hunter
Professor Emeritus at Princeton University in the school of Engineering and Applied Science

2011
Dr. Douglas C. Montgomery
Regents’ Professor of Industrial Engineering and Statistics and ASU Foundation Professor of Engineering at Arizona State University