Pär Kurlberg
I am a professor at the department of mathematics at KTH. My main research interest is Number Theory related to Quantum Chaos.
Distinctions:
- 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.
Teaching
Articles on teaching.
Some reasons to study math:
- 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. By the way, 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 so unreasonably effective.
- Since it's the best job there is!
Research
Seminars/Workshops/Conferences
- Number theory miniworkshop (Sep 21, 2010).
- DNA-L
- Dynamical systems, Number theory, Analysis (DNA)
- 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
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
Some KTH computer notes.
Some ubuntu-feisty notes.
Redhat 7.1 upgrade caveats. Also applies to Redhat 7.2.