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Olle Häggström

Professor

Mathematical Statistics
Chalmers University of Technology
S-412 96 GÖTEBORG
SWEDEN
Phone: +46 31 772 5311 (office)
Email: olleh@chalmers.se

My CV

Click here to access my official (but rather less informative) Chalmers homepage.

Announcements

Ph.D. course on Fundamentals of Bayesian Reasoning, November-December 2016.
My new book Here Be Dragons: Science, Technology and the Future of Humanity is on sale, e.g., here and here.
Kurs MVE420 Nya teknologier, global risk och mänsklighetens framtid, mars-maj 2016.
Kurs TMA321 Matematisk statistik, mars-maj 2016.
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From an amazing workshop

in Abisko, May 2006

(Photo by Jan-Olov Johansson)

Some recent research papers: abstracts and fulltext.

Books, introductory papers and lecture notes: abstracts and fulltext.

List of publications

Coauthors

Marina Axelson-Fisk, Jonathan Bagley, Itai Benjamini, Jacob van den Berg, Graham Brightwell, Erik Broman, Mia Deijfen, Devdatt Dubhashi, Kimmo Eriksson, Hans-Otto Georgii, Timo Hirscher, Alexander Holroyd, Daniel Johansson, Jenny Jonasson (formerly known as Jenny Andersson), Johan Jonasson, Jeff Kahn, Gil Kalai, Christof Külske, Marie-Colette van Lieshout, Torgny Lindvall, Russell Lyons, Christian Maes, Gabriele Mambrini, Marianne Månsson, Ronald Meester, Péter Mester, Jesper Møller, Elchanan Mossel, Karin Nelander, Brian O'Neill, Lorenzo Orecchia, Alessandro Panconesi, Robin Pemantle, Yuval Peres, Chiara Petrioli, Jeff Rosenthal, Roberto Schonmann, Oded Schramm, Mauro Sozio, Jeff Steif, Claudia Tebaldi, Tatyana Turova, Andrea Vitaletti, Johan Wästlund, Peter Winkler.

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.
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

Old stuff

Ph.D. course on Markov random fields, March-May, 2014.
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.

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