Peter Jagers (born 1941) is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Statistics at

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and

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who made lasting contributions in

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and general branching processes. Jagers was first vice president (2007–2010) of

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and Chair of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg (2012). He in an elected member of the

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, a Fellow of the

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and past President of the

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(2005–2007). He also served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of

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. Jagers has been coordinating editor of the

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and Advances in Applied Probability. He is on the Editorial Committee for

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's books on probability theory and was editor of

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1989–1993.

Honors and awards

Jagers received an honorary doctorate from the

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and in 2012 was awarded the Carver Medal by the

. In 2003 he received the Chalmers Medal and in 2005 was awarded King

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's gold medal for "services to mathematics in Sweden and internationally".

Publications

He has published a large number of scientific works, notably in

branching process In probability theory, a branching process is a type of mathematical object known as a stochastic process, which consists of collections of random variables indexed by some set, usually natural or non-negative real numbers. The original purpose of ...

theory and its applications, and is the author of two books, Branching Processes with Biological Applications (J. Wiley 1975) and Branching Processes: Variation, Growth, and Extinction of Populations (Cambridge U. Press 2005). The Crump-Mode-Jagers (or generalized) branching process is named for Jagers.

References

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