Pär Kurlberg
I am a professor at the department of mathematics at KTH. My main research interest is Number Theory related to Quantum Chaos. Abridged CV.
Distinctions
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Member, 2023-.
- Gårding prize, 2021.
- Göran Gustafsson Prize, 2010.
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Research Fellowship, 2004-2009.
- Edlund Prize, 2008.
- "Feather in the hat" teaching award, Spring 2007.
- Göran Gustafsson junior research award, 2005.
- Wallenberg Prize, 2002.
Research
Teaching
SF1633 (SF1633 ht19) Old courses. Articles on teaching.
Why study math?
- You can do some deep stuff.
- According to the Economist, TAKING more maths in school can make you richer. In swedish: Matematikstudier ger 30 procent högre lön.
- Fighting nazis (another way, in swedish.)
- To stay upwind. Paul Graham also has some interesting essays on startups.
- Get rich: First way. Second way.
- No pain, no gain: "The fact is, if you are thinking about a PhD program in economics, you are advised to take math courses until it hurts."
- Gian-Carlo Rota's Lesson 10: Alumni who return to visit [MIT] invariably complain of not having taken enough math courses while they were undergraduates
- Since it is unreasonably effective.
- Apparently it's the best job there is!
A secret weapon, The Maths of life and death.
"Maths is the language of science. It crops up everywhere from physics to engineering and chemistry – aiding us in understanding the origins of the universe and building bridges that won’t collapse in the wind. Perhaps a little more surprisingly, maths is also increasingly integral to biology."
Seminars/Workshops/Conferences
- Institut Mittag-Leffler semester on Number Theory (spring 2024)
- Number Theory Session, 29 NCM, Aalborg, 2023
- Number Theory Session, 28 NCM, Aalto, 2022
- Institut Mittag-Leffler semester on Number Theory (spring 2021)
- KTH/SU number theory mailing list
- KTH/SU Number theory seminar
- KTH analysis seminar
- Number theory session at the 17th Nordic Congress (Stockholm, March 17-19, 2016)
- Number theory miniworkshop (Sep 21, 2010).
- Dynamical systems, Number theory, Analysis (DNA)
- DNA-L ("L" is for "light" or "learning".)
- KTH/SU Mathematics Colloquium
- Finnish-Swedish Number Theory Conference (May 26-28, 2010).
- CIAM/DNA mini-workshop on Computational Number Theory (May 15, 2008)
- Exponential sum working group (Spring 2007)
- DNA Workshop (April 14, 2005)
Contact information
Office: room 3627, Mathematics, KTH Email: My last name at math.kth.se. (Spam problems.) Phone: +46 (0)8 790 6582 Fax: +46 (0)8 723 1788 Mailing address: Par Kurlberg Department of Mathematics KTH SE-10044, Stockholm Sweden
Misc computer notes
Information about the department compute servers.
How to get a list of students in your course (with email + pnr etc), and how to get names + pnr for "all" students that took an exam.
Hint and tips for KTH room booking via exchange.
Latex template for KTH math letters.
Some other KTH computer notes.