Students of Stig Larsson

Current graduate students

• Matteo Molteni is working on numerical methods for stochastic partial differential equations.
• Adam Andersson is working on numerical methods for stochastic partial differential equations.
• Fredrik Lindgren is working on numerical methods for stochastic partial differential equations.
  Supervised together with Mihaly Kovacs.
• Bengt Hakberg is working on numerical methods for the Kolmogorov-Petrovski-Piskunov (KPP) equation in combustion theory.
• Niklas Ericsson is working on hybrid finite element/Fourier methods for the Stokes equations in axi-symmetric domains.

Postdoctoral students

• Mihaly Kovacs, University of Otago, New Zealand, 2006-2008. Funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR).
• Milena Racheva, Technical University of Gabrovo, Bulgaria, 2004-2005. Funded by the Swedish Institute (SI).
• Ezekiel Ayoola, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 2004-2005. Funded by the Swedish Institute (SI).

Previous graduate students

• Karin Kraft (now at Linköping University)
  Supervised together with Mathias Lidberg, Department of Applied Mechanics.
  PhD thesis: ''Adaptive Finite Element Methods for Optimal Control Problems'', (pdf).
  Disputation: February 25, 2011. Opponent: Tomas Johansson, University of Birmingham.
  Licentiate thesis: ''Adaptive Finite Element Methods for Optimal Control Problems'', 2008 (pdf).
• Ali Mesforush (now at Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran)
  PhD thesis: ''Finite Element of the Deterministic and the Stochastic Cahn-Hilliard Equation'', (pdf).
  Disputation: June 7, 2010. Opponent: Matthias Geissert, Technische Universität, Darmstadt.
  Licentiate thesis: ''Finite Element Approximation of the Linear Stochastic Cahn-Hilliard Equation'', May 27, 2009, (pdf).
• Fardin Saedpanah (now at University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran)
  PhD thesis: ''The Finite Element Method for Fractional Order Viscoelasticity and the Stochastic Wave Equation'', (pdf).
  Disputation: May 26, 2009. Opponent: Omar Lakkis, University of Sussex.
  Licentiate thesis: ''The Continuous Galerkin Method for Fractional Order Viscoelasticity'', 2007 (pdf).
• Christoffer Cromvik (now at FS Dynamics AB)
  Licentiate thesis: ''Numerical folding of airbags based on optimization and Origami'', 2007 (pdf).
  (Licentiate thesis 2007 supervised together with K. Eriksson, University West, and B. Pipkorn, Autoliv,
  and funded by Autoliv Development AB. PhD 2009 supervised by Michael Patriksson.)
• Erik Svensson (now at Imego)
  PhD thesis: ''Computational characterization of mixing in flows'' (pdf).
  Disputation: September 1, 2006. Opponent: Kunibert G. Siebert, Universität Augsburg.
  Licentiate thesis: ''From Eulerian to Lagrangian viewpoints in fluid flows: convective chaotic mixing in microfluidics'', 2004 (pdf).
• Klas Adolfsson (now at Husqvarna AB)
  PhD in Applied Mechanics (main supervisor: Mikael Enelund, Applied Mechanics).
  PhD thesis: ''Models and numerical procedures for fractional order viscoelasticity''.
  Disputation: April 21, 2004. Opponent: Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Graz Technical University, Austria.
• Yan Yubin (now at the University of Chester)
  PhD thesis: ''Error analysis and smoothing properties of discretized deterministic and stochastic parabolic problems''.
  Disputation: June 3, 2003. Opponent: Cesar Palencia, University of Valladolid.
  Licentiate thesis: ''Smoothing properties and approximations of time derivatives in time stepping methods
  for homogeneous parabolic equations'', November 2000 (supervised by Vidar Thomée).
• Johan Ivarsson (now at Jeppesen)
  PhD thesis: ''On the finite element method for the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations''. Abstract.
  Disputation: October 12, 2001. Opponent: Donald J. Estep, Colorado State University.
  Licentiate thesis: ``A posteriori error analysis of a finite element method for the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations'', June 1998.
  abstract, dvi, postscript
• Mats Boman
  PhD thesis: ''On a posteriori error analysis in the maximum norm''.
  Introduction, paper 1, paper 2, paper 3.
  Disputation: December 15, 2000. Opponent: Ricardo H. Nochetto, University of Maryland.