Peter Jagers
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Peter Jagers (born1941) is a Professor of Mathematical Statistics at University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology.[1]. Jagers has been vice president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Chair of the Chalmers Faculty Council, and Chair of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg. He in an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics[2] and the Fraunhofer Society and has been President of the Bernoulli Society[3]. Han has also been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Statistics Sweden[4].
Jagers has been coordinating editor of the Journal of Applied Probability and Advances in Applied Probability. He is on the Editorial Committee for Springer's books on probability theory[5], and has been editor of Stochastic Processes and their Applications.
Honors
Jagers is an honorary doctor at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and in 2012 was awarded the Carver Medal by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. In 2003 he received the Chalmers Medal, and in 2005 he was awarded King Carl XVI Gustaf 's Gold Medal for "services to mathematics in Sweden and internationally"[6]
Publications
He has published a large number of scientific works, notably in branching process 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).
Sources
- ^ "Peter Jagers | Chalmers". Staff.
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Category: Swedish statisticians; Swedish professors; faculty at University of Gothenburg; faculty at Chalmers Technical University; people born 1941; Living persons