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Olle Häggström

Professor

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Announcements

• As of July 1, 2011, I serve as head of the Mathematical Statistics division at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg.

• Selected Works of Oded Schramm, eds I. Benjamini and O. Häggström, Springer 2011.
  This volume is dedicated to the memory of the late Oded Schramm (1961-2008), distinguished mathematician. Throughout his career, Schramm made profound and beautiful contributions to mathematics that will have a lasting influence.
  In these two volumes, Editors Itai Benjamini and Olle Häggström have collected some of his papers, supplemented with three survey papers by Steffen Rohde, Häggström and Cristophe Garban that further elucidate his work. The papers within are a representative collection that shows the breadth, depth, enthusiasm and clarity of his work, with sections on Geometry, Noise Sensitivity, Random Walks and Graph Limits, Percolation, and finally Schramm-Loewner Evolution. An introduction by the Editors and a comprehensive bibliography of Schramm's publications complete the volume. The book will be of especial interest to researchers in probability and geometry, and in the history of these subjects.

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From an amazing workshop

in Abisko, May 2006

(Photo by Jan-Olov Johansson)

Some recent research papers: abstracts and postscript files.

Introductory papers and lecture notes: abstracts and postscript files.

List of publications

Coauthors

Erdös number: 2.

Graduate students

• Karin Nelander. Ph.D. thesis 1998, Contributions to Percolation Theory and Exact Sampling.
• Kajsa Larson (formerly known as Kajsa Fröjd), Licentiate thesis 1999, Perfect Simulation of Some Spatial Point Processes. Later, without my supervision, she went on to complete her Ph.D. thesis On Perfect Simulation and EM Estimation (2010).
• Mia Deijfen. Ph.D. thesis 2003, Stochastic Models for Spatial Growth and Competition.
• Per Hallberg. Ph.D. thesis 2004, Gibbs Measures and Phase Transitions in Potts and Beach Models.
• Fredrik Lundin, Ph.D. thesis 2006, Case Studies in Omniparametric Simulation.
• Oskar Sandberg, Ph.D. thesis 2007, The Structure and Dynamics of Navigable Networks.
• Daniel Ahlberg, Ph.D. thesis 2011, Asymptotics and Dynamics in First-Passage and Continuum Percolation.
• Oscar Hammar. Ph.D. thesis 2011, Percolation: Inference and Applications in Hydrology.
• Timo Hirscher.

Some of my other professional activities

• Despite being elected member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA), 2004, as well as of the Kungliga Vetenskaps- och Vitterhetssamhället i Göteborg (KVVS), 2006, and the The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), 2010, I still do not consider myself a devoted royalist.
• Associate editor of the Annals of Probability.
• Associate editor of the open access journal Probability Surveys.
• Associate editor of the twin journals Advances in Applied Probability and Journal of Applied Probability.
• Chairman of the board of NCM (Nationellt Centrum för Matematikutbildning).
• Member of the Scientific Council for Natural and Engineering Sciences at the Swedish Research Council.
• Member of the advisory group of GMV (Centre for Environment and Sustainability).

Debattinlägg i skolfrågor

Kommentarer om klimatfrågan

Texter om vetenskapens gränsmarker

Math links

• The Probability Web
• MathSciNet
  • Mirror site in Bielefeld
  • My author profile
• The NECI Scientific Literature Digital Library
• Probability Abstracts
• The xxx archive
• Mathematical Physics Preprint Archive
• David Wilson's webpage on exact simulation
• Philippe Flajolet's webpage on analysis of algorithms
• Regeringens matematikdelegation
  • reaktioner på betänkandet
• Some institutes and departments:
  • Göteborg University
  • Computing Science, Chalmers
  • Dept of Mathematics, KTH
  • Mathematical Statistics, Stockholm University
  • Dept of Mathematics, Uppsala University
  • Mathematical Statistics, Lund University
  • Institut Mittag-Leffler
  • MaPhySto
  • EURANDOM

Other links

• Google
  • My citations at Google Scholar
• Gula Sidorna
• Dagens Nyheter
• Svenska Dagbladet
• Kapten Stofil
• New York Review of Books
• Nationalencyklopedin
• TheFreeDictionary.com
• Wikipedia
  • Wiktionary
  • Wikipedia Sverige
• bokfynd.nu
• Edge
• Some blogs: Scott Aaronson, Niclas Berggren, Tanja Bergkvist, David Chalmers, Climate Progress, Anders Emretsson, Andrew Gelman, Felicia Gilljam, Timothy Gowers, Mig Greengard, Robert Grumbine, Humanistbloggen, Leif Häggström, Robin Hanson, Morgan Johansson, Bo Jonsson, Gil Kalai, Kaptenen och Vänsterdojjan, Paul Krugman, Sandra Larsson, Patrik Lindenfors, Mark Lynas, George Monbiot, PZ Myers, Naturskyddsföreningen, Panda's Thumb, Lage Rahm, RealClimate, Birger Schlaug, Oded Schramm (in memoriam), Erik Svensson, Thomas Svensson, Terence Tao, Uppsalainitiativet, Eliezer Yudkowsky et al.

Marita and myself

(Photo by Marita)

Family

• Marita (wife)
• Lisa (sister)
• Lotta (sister)
• ...and here is some information about the rest of my family.

Old stuff

• During 2008-2012 I was chairman of the board of NCM (Nationellt Centrum för Matematikutbildning).
• Gradute course on Percolation Theory, January-March 2012.
• During 2005-2009 I was coordinator of graduate studies in mathematical statistics, Chalmers and Göteborg University, but as of March 1, 2009, this position is taken over by Tommy Norberg.
• Studiecirkel om Statistikens filosofi och historia, april-maj 2008.
• GMMC-symposium om Samhälle och sociala dilemman: spelteoretisk och annan matematisk modellering, Chalmers, 22-23 maj 2008.
• I was chairman of the Svenska matematikersamfundet 2005-2007.
• Svenska matematikersamfundets årsmöte i Lund, 1-2 juni 2007.
• Svenska matematikersamfundets utbildningsdagar i Stockholm, 25-26 janari 2007.
• Svenska matematikersamfundets höstmöte i Uppsala, 1-2 december 2006.
• Applications for a 4-year position as assistant professor (forskarassistent) of discrete probability and spatial random processes! Deadline for applications was on September 12, 2006.
• Svenska matematikersamfundets årsmöte i Stockholm, 9-10 juni 2006.
• I samband med Nobelfesten den 10 december 2005, deltog jag i ett radiosamtal som går att hitta här. Och här utvecklar jag mina synpunkter en smula ytterligare.
• Svenska matematikersamfundets höstmöte i Karlstad, 25-26 november 2005.
• Svenska matematikersamfundets årsmöte, Göteborg, 3-4 juni 2005.
• Doktorandkurs om Markovkedjor, september-oktober 2004.
• Workshop on Stochastic-geometric and combinatorial ideas in statistical mechanics, Göteborg, June 21-25, 2004.
• Svenska matematikersamfundets höstmöte, Göteborg, 14-15 november 2003.
• Graduate course on Large Deviations, February-May 2003.
• Workshop on Probability, Trees, and Genetics, Chalmers, Göteborg, May 22-23, 2003.
• Course on RANDOMIZED ALGORITHMS, March-May 2002.
• 19th Nordic Conference on Mathematical Statistics, Stockholm, June 9-13, 2002.
• Workshop on Discrete Probability at EURANDOM, Eindhoven, June 17-20, 2002.
• Mini-symposium on percolation theory, Göteborg, November 8, 2001.
• Concentrated lecture series on Convergence rates for Markov chains, Göteborg, October 24-26, 2001.
• Symposium on PROBABILITY and ALGORITHMS, August 2001.
• Lecture series on COUPLINGS: OLD AND NEW IDEAS, March-May 2001.
• Complexity for probabilists, January-March, 2000.
• 1999 Summer School on Coupling Methods in Probability
• Some nice photos from the winter conference in Hemavan, 1999.
• Sannolikhetsteorins grunder, januari-mars 1999.
• A photo from the 1997 Göteborg percolation conference.