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Olav Kallenberg (born 1939) is a probability theorist known for his work on exchangeable
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and for his graduate-level textbooks and monographs. Kallenberg is a professor of mathematics at
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in the USA. From 1991 to 1994, Kallenberg served as the Editor-in-Chief of ''Probability Theory and Related Fields'' (a leading journal in probability).


Biography

Olav Kallenberg was educated in Sweden. He has worked as a probabilist in Sweden and in the United States.


Sweden

Kallenberg was born and educated in
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, with an undergraduate exam in
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from
Royal Institute of Technology The KTH Royal Institute of Technology ( sv, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, lit=Royal Institute of Technology), abbreviated KTH, is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH conducts research and education in engineering and technolog ...
(KTH) in
Stockholm Stockholm () is the capital and largest city of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people live in the municipality, with 1.6 million in the urban area, and 2.4 million in the metropo ...
. Kallenberg entered doctoral studies in
mathematical statistics Mathematical statistics is the application of probability theory, a branch of mathematics, to statistics, as opposed to techniques for collecting statistical data. Specific mathematical techniques which are used for this include mathematical an ...
at KTH, but left his studies to work in
operations analysis Operations research ( en-GB, operational research) (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a discipline that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve decis ...
for a consulting firm in
Gothenburg Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; sv, Göteborg ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has ...
. While in Gothenburg, Kallenberg also taught at
Chalmers University of Technology Chalmers University of Technology ( sv, Chalmers tekniska högskola, often shortened to Chalmers) is a Swedish university located in Gothenburg that conducts research and education in technology and natural sciences at a high international le ...
, from which he received his Ph.D. in 1972 under the supervision of Harald Bergström. After earning his doctoral degree, Kallenberg stayed with Chalmers as a lecturer. Kallenberg was appointed a full professor in
Uppsala University Uppsala University ( sv, Uppsala universitet) is a public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries still in operation. The university rose to significance during ...
.


United States

Later he moved to the United States. Since 1986, he has been Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at
Auburn University Auburn University (AU or Auburn) is a public land-grant research university in Auburn, Alabama. With more than 24,600 undergraduate students and a total enrollment of more than 30,000 with 1,330 faculty members, Auburn is the second largest ...
.


Honours and awards

In 1977, Kallenberg was awarded the
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, and Kallenberg was only the second recipient of the prize in history. Kallenberg is a Fellow of the
Institute of Mathematical Statistics The Institute of Mathematical Statistics is an international professional and scholarly society devoted to the development, dissemination, and application of statistics and probability. The Institute currently has about 4,000 members in all parts o ...
. In April 2006 Kallenberg was selected Auburn's 32nd annual Distinguished Graduate Faculty Lecturer at Auburn. Kallenberg delivered the 2003 AACTM Lewis-Parker Lecture at the
University of Alabama in Huntsville The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is a public research university in Huntsville, Alabama. The university is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and comprises nine colleges: arts, humanities & social scienc ...
.


Selected publications


Books

* Kallenberg, O., ''Probabilistic Symmetries and Invariance Principles''. Springer -Verlag, New York (2005). 510 pp. . * Kallenberg, O., ''Foundations of Modern Probability'', 2nd ed. Springer Series in Statistics. (2002). 650 pp. ; 3rd ed. Probability Theory and Stochastic Modelling. (2021). 946 pp.  * Kallenberg, O., ''Random Measures'', 4th edition. Academic Press, New York, London; Akademie-Verlag, Berlin (1986).


Scientific papers

* ''Homogeneity and the strong Markov property''. Ann. Probab. 15 (1987), 213–240. * ''Spreading and predictable sampling in exchangeable sequences and processes''. Ann. Probab. 16 (1988), 508–534. * ''Multiple integration with respect to Poisson and Lévy processes'' (with J. Szulga). Probab. Th. Rel. Fields (1989), 101–134. * ''General Wald-type identities for exchangeable sequences and processes''. Probab. Th. Rel. Fields 83 (1989), 447–487. * ''Random time change and an integral representation for marked stopping times''. Probab. Th. Rel. Fields 86 (1990), 167–202. * ''Some dimension-free features of vector-valued martingales'' (with R. Sztencel). Probab. Th. Rel. Fields 88 (1991), 215–247. * ''Symmetries on random arrays and set-indexed processes''. J. Theor. Probab. 5 (1992), 727–765. * ''Random arrays and functionals with multivariate rotational symmetries''. Probab. Th. Rel. Fields 103 (1995), 91–141. * ''On the existence of universal functional solutions to classical SDEs''. Ann. Probab. 24 (1996), 196–205.


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Brief CV for the 2003 Lewis-Parker Lecturer
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kallenberg, Olav Living people 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Swedish emigrants to the United States Swedish mathematicians Probability theorists KTH Royal Institute of Technology alumni Chalmers University of Technology alumni Auburn University faculty 1939 births Measure theorists Uppsala University faculty Probability Theory and Related Fields editors