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Professor emeritus of Mathematical statistics since 1st of November 2007

You find me in the Mathematics Department, room 3444 Lindstedtsvägen 13. Map.
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Professor of Mathematical statistics at the Royal Institute of Technology 1989-2007
Senior Lecturer at Uppsala University 1971-1988
Dissertation for filosofie doktorsgrad and was made Docent at Uppsala University 1972
Studied at Lund University 1962-1970
Born in Helsingborg and graduated from high school in 1961

My research has mainly been in Probability theory including applications.

Some keywords: Conditional limit theorems, central limit theorems, sampling, occupancy problems, coupon collecting problems, birthday problems, urnmodels, combinatorial probability, spacings, circle coverage, geometric probability, embedding in birth processes, Poisson processes, coupling, Poisson approximation, Stein-Chen method, extreme values, move-to-front rule, stochastic models for nucleation and growth, stable distributions, functionals of Brownian motion, Poisson-Dirichlet and related distributions, records.

Scientific works

• A list of my publications.
• Reviews of my publications (requires MathSciNet access rights).
• Reviews I have written (requires MathSciNet access rights).

Besides the ordinary work as a teacher and researcher in Mathematical Statistics at KTH I have been involved in the management of KTH:

• Vice dean of the School of Engineering Physics July 1990 - June 1993
• Dean of the School of Engineering Physics July 1993 - June 1997
• Member of the President's executive group at KTH January 1993 - June 1997
• Vice dean of KTH May 2003 - January 2007

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