On July 16, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University hosted an opening of the International Conference on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Professor Gvanji Mania, a prominent Georgian statistician and founder of the Georgian school of probability theory and mathematical statistics. Rector of TSU, Giorgi Sharvashidze, representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science, Georgian and foreign scientists, as well as invited guests attended the opening event.
TSU Professor, Head of the Department of Mathematics, Omar Purtukhia said that experts from 10 countries were invited to the conference. “We are especially glad to hold this event, because this year we mark the 100th anniversaries of Tbilisi State University and Georgian scientist Gvanji Mania. I believe that the conference will be very interesting,” he said.
Rimas Norvaiša, professor of Vilnius University, said: “I am glad to attend the conference in Tbilisi. I am here with my colleagues Misha Mania and Vazha Tarieladze. All of us work on scientific issues and it is especially pleasant to hear how much the Georgian mathematician had done in this sphere for years,” Prof. Norvaiša said.
Scientists working in the field of probability theory and mathematical statistics from the United States, Germany, New Zealand, Czech Republic, Holland, Uzbekistan, Denmark, Italy, Russia, Armenia, Israel and Lithuania are participating in the conference.
In 1968, Prof. Gvanji Mania founded the Department of Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics at the Tbilisi State University. He led the Department until the end of his life. Professor Mania worked productively as a tutor and a researcher. He is the author of many scientific papers, textbooks and monographs in probability theory and mathematical statistics. Professor Mania has founded limiting distributions of several important statistics and tabulated these distributions. These statistics are known as Mania’s Statistics in scientific literature. In 1974 the monograph “Statistical Estimations of Probability Distributions” was published, which was highly appreciated by colleagues. International Statistical Review cited 17 papers by Mania (including the above mentioned monograph) in bibliography of Werts and Schneider about statistical estimation of density, where this monograph is mentioned as “an excellent book”.
The anniversary event is organized by the Department of Mathematics of TSU Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences; A. Razmadze Mathematical Institute; Georgian Technical University; Muskhelishvili Institute of Computational Mathematics and Georgian Statistical Association.
