1. CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME: Dean L. Isaacson
I. Field of Specialization: Probability
II. Personal Data:
Born: 10 April 1941, in St. Cloud, Minnesota
Marital Status: Married
III. Degrees Held:
1963 B.S. Macalester College Mathematics
1966 M.S. University of Minnesota Mathematics
1968 Ph.D. University of Minnesota Mathematics
IV. Experience:
1966-67 Macalester College Visiting Instructor (summers)
9/65-6/68 University of Minnesota Teaching Assistant
V. Iowa State University Record:
09/68 Assistant Professor (Mathematics and Statistics)
11/68 Associate Member of Graduate Faculty
07/72 Associate Professor (Mathematics and Statistics)
08/72-present Director of Graduate Studies
11/72 Full Member of the Graduate Faculty
07/76 Full Professor (Mathematics and Statistics)
1984-86 Acting Director of Statistical Laboratory and Head of Statistics
1986-2002 Director of Statistical Laboratory and Head of Statistics
2002-present Professor of Statistics
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2. VI. Honors & Awards:
1980 Iowa State University Outstanding Teaching Award
1994 Fellow of American Statistical Association
VII. Teaching:
a) Productivity
1968-69 642(W), Math 514(F), 554(W), 555(S)
1969-70 545(SS2), 599, 642(W), 648(S), Math 409(F), 410(W), 555(S)
1970-71 648(S), 599, 699, 545(SS2), Math 514(F), 515(W), 554(W), 555(S)
1971-72 490(F), 642(W), 648(S), Math 204(F), 204(W), 555(S), 545(SS2), 590
1972-73 Math 514(F), 204(W), 515(W), 555(S), 648(SS2), 545(SS2)
1973-74 Math 150X(F), Math 151(W), 642(W), Math 555(S), 545(SS2)
1974-75 Math 514(F), Math 515(W), 642(W), Math 555(S), 545(SS2)
1975-76 Math 150(F), 151(W), 304(S), 127(S), 545(SS2)
1976-77 Math 514(F), Math 514(W), Math 555(S), 127(S), 545(SS2)
1977-78 Math 150(F), 150(W), 642(W), 151(S), 545(SS2)
1978-79 Math 514(F), Math 515(W), Stat 127(W), Math 304(S), 545(SS2)
1979-80 Math 514(F), Math 515(W), Stat 127(W), Math 555(S), 545(SS2)
1980-81 Math 150(F), Math 151(W), Stat 642(W), Math 555(S), Stat 648(S),
Stat 545(SS2)
1981-82 Math 514(F), Stat 227(S), Math 304(S)
1982-83 Math 514(F), Math 555(S), Stat 227(S)
1983-84 Math 166(F), Math 166(S)
1984-85 Stat 227(F), Stat 227(S)
1985-86 Stat 105(F), Stat 642(S)
1986-87 Stat 105(F), Stat 105(S)
1987-88 Stat 105(F), Stat 105(S)
1988-89 Stat 105(F), Stat 105(S)
1989-90 Stat 105(F), Stat 105(S)
1990-91 Stat 105(F), Stat 105(S)
1991-92 Stat 105(F), Stat 105(S)
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3. VII. Teaching: (continued)
1992-93 Stat 105(F), Stat 105(S)
1993-94 Stat 105(F), Stat 105(S)
1994-95 Stat 105(F), Stat 105(S)
1995-96 Math 514(F), Stat 105(S)
1996-97 Stat 105(F), Stat 105(S)
1997-98 Stat 105(F), Stat 105(S)
1998-99 Math 150(F), Stat 105(S)
1999-00 Stat 104(F), Stat 104(S)
2000-01 Stat 104(F), Stat 104(S)
2001-02 Stat 104(F), Stat 104(S)
2002-03 Stat 104(F), Stat 104(S), Math 150 (S)
2003-04 Stat 104 (2 sections in the Fall), Stat 104 (2 sections in the Spring)
2004-05 Stat 104 (1 section in the Fall), Stat 104 (2 sections in the Spring)
2005-06 Stat 104 (1 section in the Fall), Stat 104 (2 sections in the Spring)
2006-07 Stat 104 (1 section in the Fall), Stat 104 (2 sections in the Spring)
b) The quality of this teaching was recognized by the University in 1980 through an
Outstanding Teaching Award. The student evaluations in Stat 104 classes were 3.89,
4.46, 4.30, 4.14 and 4.48 over the first five semesters. The evaluation in Math 150
was 4.22. (The scale is 1 to 5 with 5 being best.) The student evaluations in Stat 104
remain around 4.00.
VIII. Service:
Statistical Department Committees:
1968-69 Graduate Faculty Council, Seminar
1969-70 Social (Chair),
Committee for Examinations for the Nonthesis M.S. (Chair)
1970-71 Honors and Awards, Social,
Committee for Examinations for the Nonthesis M.S.
1971-72 Graduate (ex-officio), Assistantship Evaluation (ex-officio),
Committee for Examinations for the Nonthesis M.S.,
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4. Transportation Chairman for the regional meetings of IMS, ASA, and
ENAR held in Ames (1972)
VIII. Service: (continued)
1972-73 Graduate (ex-officio), Assistantship Evaluation (ex-officio),
Committee for Examinations for the Nonthesis M.S.
1973-74 Graduate, Graduate Affairs, Assistantship Evaluation,
Committee for Examinations for the Nonthesis M.S. (Chair)
1974-75 Graduate, Graduate Affairs, Assistantship Evaluation, Seminar
1975-76 Graduate, Graduate Affairs, Assistantship Evaluation
1976-77 Graduate, Graduate Affairs, Assistantship Evaluation
1977-78 Graduate, Graduate Affairs, Assistantship Evaluation
1978-79 Graduate, Graduate Affairs, Graduate Theory Courses (Stat)
1979-80 Graduate, Graduate Affairs, Curriculum,
Search Committee for Barry Arnold’s position
1980-81 Graduate (Chair), Curriculum
1981-82 Graduate, Curriculum
1982-83 Graduate, Curriculum,
Local Arrangements Committee for the 50th
Anniversary (Transportation)
1983-84 Graduate, Curriculum
2001-02 Wrote nomination for SPAIG Award
2002-03 DOGE, Honors & Awards, Capital Campaign, Undergraduate, Help
Session for Math 514 students
2003-04 Admissions, DOGE, Honors & Awards, Undergraduate, Help Session
for Stat 642 students.
2004-05 Admissions, DOGE Honors & Awards, Undergraduate, Help Session for
Stat 642 students
2005-06 Admissions, DOGE; Chair, Honors & Awards; Undergraduate; Help
Session for Stat 642 students
2006-07 Admissions, DOGE; Chair, Honors & Awards; Undergraduate; Help
Session for Stat 642 students
2007-08 Admissions, DOGE, Honors and Awards, Help Sessions for Stat 642
students
Mathematical Department Committees:
1968-69 None
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5. 1969-70 Undergraduate
1970-71 Math for Engineers, Undergraduate
1971-72 Math for Engineers, Undergraduate
1972-73 Social, Undergraduate,
Committee on Development of Math 150X, 151X
VIII. Service (continued)
1973-74 Ph.D. Qualifying Exam (Analysis), Undergraduate,
Coordinator for Math 150X, 151X
1974-75 Undergraduate
1975-76 None
1976-77 Graduate
1977-78 Graduate
1978-79 None
1979-80 None
1980-1981 Ph.D. Qualifying Exam (Analysis)
1981-82 Ph.D. Qualifying Exam (Analysis),
Search Committee for Stochastic Differential Equations Position (Chair)
1982-83 Search Committee for Stochastic Differential Equations Position
1983-84 None
1984-85 Ph.D. Qualifying Exam (Analysis),
Search Committee for Stochastic Differential Equations Position (Chair)
1985-86 Search Committee for Stochastic Differential Equations Position
1986-87 None
College and University Committees:
1977-78 Representative Assembly
1978-79 Representative Assembly
1982-83 Search Committee for Dean of Sciences & Humanities
1986-89 Strategic Planning Committee for Sciences & Humanities
1987-88 Committee on Faculty Salary Increase Administration,
Search Committee for Dean of Agriculture
1988-89 Search Committee for Assoc. Dean of Engineering,
Search Committee for Dean of Sciences & Humanities
1988-90 Strategic Planning Committee for Agriculture
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6. 1989-90 Ad Hoc Committee to Review the Academic Status of Iowa State
University’s Student Athletes,
Search Committee for Head of Agronomy (Chair)
1990-93 DEO Council
1991-94 Steering Committee on TQM
1988-95 Board of Directors for Iowa Quality Coalition
VIII. Service (continued)
1993-94 Strategic Planning Committee in College of Agriculture,
Ad Hoc Committee in LAS on Faculty Evaluation,
Search Committee for Chair of Economics (Chair)
1994-95 Strategic Planning Task Force on Internal Management,
Strategic Planning Committee in College of Agriculture
1995-96 Faculty Evaluation Committee in Liberal Arts and Sciences
1996-97 Faculty Reward Structure Task Force,
Committee to Review Promotion and Tenure Document
1997-98 Committee to Review Promotion and Tenure Document
1998-99 Committee to Review the Provost’s Office
1999-00 Search Committee for Dean of Agriculture,
Search Committee for Contracts and Grants Officer
2000-01 Search Committee for Director of the Laurence H. Baker Center for
Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics,
Search Committee for new Chair of Mathematics (Chair)
2002-03 Benchmarking Committee for College of Agriculture
2004-08 LAS Curriculum Committee
2005-08 AGEP Fellowship Committee
Professional Service:
1970-2002 Referee papers and proposals
1998 NSF Review Panel for CAREER Awards
2000-2006 Member of SPAIG Committee for ASA
2001 NSF Review Panel for VIGRE Grants
2002 Program Review of Math Sciences Department at Memphis
2002 Served as discussion leader at VIGRE Conference
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7. IX. Professional Society Membership:
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
American Statistical Association (Elected Fellow in 1994)
X. Speeches, Papers:
1. “On a Subclass of Square Integrable Martingales.” A contributed paper given at the
regional meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Iowa State University,
Ames, Iowa, April 26, 1972.
2. “A Decomposition of Continuous Square Integrable Martingales.” A contributed
paper given at regional meeting of IMS, Montreal, Canada, August 19, 1972.
3. “L1 Ergodic Behavior of Non-Negative Kernels.” A contributed paper given at the
regional meeting of IMS, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio,
June 10-12, 1974.
4. “Ergodicity of Nonstationary Markov Chains.” At Summer Research Institute on
Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes, Indiana University, Bloomington,
Indiana, August 1, 1974.
5. “Ergodicity Using Mean Visit Times.” A contributed paper given at the Annual
Meeting of IMS, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, August 18-21, 1976.
6. “Strong Ergodic Markov Chains and Rates of Convergence Using Spectral
Conditions.” Presented at the 1978 annual joint meetings of the AMS, the Biometric
Society, and IMS, San Diego, California, August 1978.
7. “Ergodicity Versus Strong Ergodicity.” Presented at the Department of Mathematics
and Business Analysis at Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, Ohio, March 3-7, 1978.
8. “Markov Chains and Their Applications.” Presented at Macalester College, St. Paul,
Minnesota, Feb. 27, 1978 and at Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, Ohio, March 3-7,
1978.
9. "Ergodicity Versus Strong Ergodicity" and "Markov Chains and Their Applications."
Presented at North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, April 25-26, 1979
10. “Ergodicity, Geometric Ergodicity, and Strong Ergodicity.” A contributed paper
presented at the Ninth Conference on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications at
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois on August 9, 1979; also presented at the
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 29, 1980.
11. “Markov Chains and Their Applications.” Presented at Grinnell College, Grinnell,
Iowa, November 2, 1979 and at Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota,
November 29, 1979.
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8. 12. “Ergodic Behavior for Homogeneous and Inhomogeneous Markov Chains.” A
contributed paper presented at the 1981 Annual Meeting of the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics at Vail, Colorado, August 18, 1981.
13. “Markov Chains and Their Applications.” Presented at Carleton College, Northfield,
Minnesota, October 30, 1981.
14. “Markov Chains and Their Applications.” Presented at Luther College, Decorah,
Iowa and at Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa, November 5, 1982.
15. “Statistics as an Independent Unit.” Invited paper at the 1989 Department Chairs’
Colloquium, Arlington, Virginia, October 28, 1989.
X. Speeches, Papers: (continued)
16. “The B.S. Program in Statistics at Iowa State University.” Invited paper at the 1990
Annual Meeting of the ASA, Anaheim, California, August 6, 1990.
17. “What Do Mathematicians Do When They Grow Up?” KME Banquet, Wartburg
College, Waverly, Iowa, March 1992.
18. “TQM Within a University/Statistics Department.” 1992 Annual Meeting of the
ASA, Boston, Massachusetts, August 1992.
19. “The Iowa Quality Coalition.” Presented at Marshalltown Rotary Club,
Marshalltown, Iowa, March 1993.
20. “The M.S. in Statistics for General Motors Employees.” Presented at six G.M. sites,
March 16-18, 1994.
21. “Strong Ergodicity for Nonhomogeneous Markov Chains.” Presented at Department
of Statistics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, October 7, 1994.
22. “Undergraduate Program in Statistics at Iowa State: Past, Present and Future.”
Invited paper at the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association,
Washington DC, November 1, 1994.
23. “The Benefits and Costs of Outreach.” Invited paper at the meeting of Department
Chairs in the Mathematical Sciences, Washington, DC, October 11-12, 1996.
24. “Update on Statistics Partnerships among Academe, Industry and Government.”
Invited paper at Twin Cities Chapter Meeting of ASA, University of St. Thomas, St.
Paul, Minnesota, March 18, 1997.
25. “Partnering with Departments on Campus.” Invited paper at the SPAIG Conference,
Raleigh, North Carolina, May 30, 1997.
26. “Partnerships between Colleges and Universities.” Invited paper presented with Tom
Moore (Grinnell College) at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Anaheim, California,
August 12, 1997.
27. “Graduate Education at a Distance - The Iowa State Experience.” Invited paper
presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Baltimore, Maryland, August 1999.
28. “SPAIG Initiatives at Iowa State.” Invited paper presented at the Joint Statistical
Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia, August 2001.
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9. 29. “Statistics Graduate Program at Iowa State, The Pew Midstates Science and
Mathematics Consortium, St. Olaf College, November, 2003
30. Invited Discussant for the SPAIG session at the JSM in Toronto, August 2004.
XI. Refereed Publications:
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1. Stochastic Integrals and Derivatives. Annals of Mathematical Statatistics 40:5, 1610-
1616, October 1969.
2. Note on the Three Series Theorem. Annals of Mathematical Statatistics 40:5, 1844,
October 1969.
3. Continuous Martingales with Discontinuous Marginal Distributions. Annals of
Mathematical Statatistics 42:6, 2139-2141, 1971.
4. Uniform Integrability of Square Integrable Martingales. Annals of Mathematical
Statatistics 43:2, 688-689, April 1972.
5. On a Subclass of Square Integrable Martingales. Proceedings of the American
Mathematical Society 34, 521-526, 1972.
6. A Decomposition of Square Integrable Martingales. Zur Wahrscheinlichkeits
Theorie und Verwandte Gebiete 23, 327-330, 1974.
7. Strongly Ergodic Behavior of Non-Stationary Markov Processes. R. Madsen and D.
L. Isaacson. Annals of Probability 1:2, 329-335, 1973.
8. Positive Columns for Stochastic Matrices. D. L. Isaacson and R. Madsen. Journal of
Applied Probability 11, 829-835, 1974.
9. L1 Ergodic Behavior of Non-Negative Kernels. R. Madsen and D. L. Isaacson. Israel
Journal of Mathematics 17, 350-363, 1974.
10. Markov Chains: Theory and Applications. D. L. Isaacson and Richard Madsen. A
Volume in the Wiley Series in Probability and Mathematical Statistics, 1976.
11. On Solutions to min aXYX
d
=),( and min bYaXYX
dd
==),( . Barry Arnold and
D. L. Isaacson. Zur Wahrscheinlichkeits Theorie und Verwandte Gebiete 35, 115-
119, 1976.
12. The Rate of Convergence of Certain Nonhomogeneous Markov Chains. C. C.
Huang, D. L. Isaacson, and B. Vinograde. Zur Wahrscheinlichkeits Theorie und
Verwandte Gebiete 35, 141-146, 1976.
13. Ergodicity Using Mean Visit Times. C. C. Huang and D. L. Isaacson. Journal of the
London Mathematical Society 14, 570-576, 1977.
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10. 14. The Convergence of Cesaro Averages for Certain Nonstationary Markov Chains. B.
Bowerman, H. T. David, and D. L. Isaacson. Stochastic Processes and Their
Applications 7, 113-121, 1977.
15. Criteria for Strong Ergodicity of Markov Chains. D. L. Isaacson and R. Tweedie.
Journal of Applied Probability 15, 87-95, 1978.
16. Approximate Behavior of the Posterior Distribution for a Large Observation. G.
Meeden and D. L. Isaacson. Annals of Statistics 5, 899-908, 1977.
17. Strongly Ergodic Markov Chains and Rates of Convergence Using Spectral
Conditions. D. L. Isaacson and G. Luecke. Stochastic Processes and Their
Applications 7, 113-121, 1978.
XI. Refereed Publications: (continued)
18. On Normal Characterizations by the Distribution of Linear Forms Assuming Finite
Variance. Barry Arnold and D. L. Isaacson. Stochastic Processes and Their
Applications 7:2, 227-230, 1978.
19. Strong Ergodicity for Continuous-Time Markov Chains. D. L. Isaacson and Barry
Arnold. Journal of Applied Probability 15, 699-706, 1978.
20. A Characterization of Geometric Ergodicity. Zur Wahrscheinlichkeits Theorie und
Verwandte Gebiete 49, 267-273, 1979.
21. On Ergodicity for Countable Inhomogeneous Markov Chains. D. L. Isaacson and E.
Seneta. Linear Algebra and Its Applications 48, 37-44, 1982.
22. Levels of Null Persistency for Markov Chains. D. L. Isaacson and Peter Colwell.
Journal of Applied Probability 19, 425-429, 1982.
23. Strong Ergodicity for Continuous Time, Nonhomogeneous Markov Chains. Mark
Scott, Barry Arnold, and D. L. Isaacson. Journal of Applied Probability 19, 692-694,
1982.
24. Proportional Intensities and Strong Ergodicity for Markov Processes. Mark Scott and
D. L. Isaacson. Journal of Applied Probability 20, 185-190, 1983.
25. Determination of the Basis of a Convergent Nonhomogeneous Markov Chain. A:
Mukherjea, A. Nakassis and D. L. Isaacson. Statistics and Decisions 2, 363-375,
1984.
26. Better Priors for Bayesian Bettors. D.L. Isaacson and Glen Meeden. Australian
Journal of Statistics 26(3), 263-271, 1984.
27. Conditions for Strong Ergodicity Using Intensity Matrices. Jean Johnson and D. L.
Isaacson. Journal of Applied Probability 25, 35-42, 1988.
28. On Strong Ergodicity for Nonhomogeneous Continuous-time Markov Chains. A. I.
Zeifman and D. L. Isaacson. Stochastic Processes and Their Applications 50(2), 263-
273, 1994.
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11. XII. Nonrefereed Publications:
1. A Computational Procedure to Analyze a Markov Chain. D. L. Isaacson and Vince
Sposito. Statistical Numerical Analysis and Data Processing Series, No. 15, 1973.
2. The B.S. Program in Statistics at Iowa State University, Proceedings of the American
Statistical Association - Section on Statistical Education, p. 14-17, 1990.
3. How to Apply to Graduate School. Murray K. Clayton and D. L. Isaacson. Stats 9,
p. 19-22, Spring 1993.
4. Partnerships between Colleges and Universities. D. L. Isaacson and Tom Moore.
Proceedings of the American Statistical Association - Section on Statistical
Education, 1997.
5. Benefits Received from SPAIG Partnerships, AmStat News, 2003.
XIII. Graduate Students:
Norman Hosely, M.S. (nonthesis), February, 1971
Charles MacIsaac, M.S. (nonthesis), February, 1971
Richard Dorsch, M.S. (nonthesis), May, 1971
Richard Madsen, Ph.D., August 1971 (co-chair with H. T. David)
Peampan Davivongs, M.S. (nonthesis), August, 1971
Phanitpar Sakarindr, M.S. (nonthesis), August, 1974
Choosak Udomsri, M.S. (nonthesis), August, 1974
Mohammed Pashazedeh, M.S. (nonthesis), August, 1975
Anuchit Lamyordmakpol, M.S. (nonthesis), August, 1975
Richard Chung, Ph.D., August, 1975 (co-chair with H. T. David)
Jose Villasenor, Ph.D., December, 1975 (co-chair with B. Arnold)
Chen-Chi Huang, Ph.D., August, 1977 (co-chair with B. Vinograde)
Mark Scott, Ph.D., August, 1979 (co-chair with B. Arnold)
David Cassell, M.S. (nonthesis), December, 1981
Jean Johnson, Ph.D. August, 1984 (co-chair with G. Luecke)
XIV. External Funding
(a) “Collaborative Research between General Motors Corporation and Iowa State
University.” NSF Grant (DMS-9705045). September 1997 - August 1999. Co-PIs:
Ken Koehler and Steve Vardeman. $66,954.
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12. (b) “VIGRE-Department of Statistics.” Co-PI with Mark Kaiser. Funded for $1.8
million for 2001-2006.
(c) “Iowa Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate.” Co-PI with Phil
Kutzko of Iowa. Funded by NSF for $2.4 million for 2002-2007.
(d) “The Alliance for the Production of African American PhD’s in the Mathematical
Sciences.” Co-PI with Phil Kutzko, University of Iowa. Funded by NSF for 1.8
million for 2002-2005. Renewed for 2005-2010 for 2.4 million.
XV. Diversity Activities
As co-PI on both the Alliance and AGEP grants I have attended AMP (Alliance for
Minority Participation) meetings in Louisiana (2002 and 2003) and Texas (2003). At
these meetings we recruit students for graduate study and summer internships. There
have been about four African American students in the Statistics Department each of the
past four summers. In 2005 I mentored two of these students.
XV. Diversity Activities (continued)
Recruitment of Ph.D. students from under represented groups has been a priority for the
Department of Statistics. Through the AGEP and Alliance programs we recruited one
African American student for 2005-06. For 2006-07 we recruited six African American
students. For 2007-08 we recruited two more African American students. We are
currently working on programs and policies that will help with retention and successful
completion of a PhD in Statistics for these students.
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