Laurens de Haan
Laurens (Laurentius) Franciscus Maria de Haan (born January 15, 1937 in Rotterdam ) is a Dutch mathematical statistician, known for contributions to extreme value theory . He is a professor at the University of Rotterdam .
Life
De Haan received his diploma as a mathematician in 1966 and received his doctorate in 1970 from the University of Amsterdam under Johannes Runnenburg (On Regular Variation and its Application to the Weak Convergence of Sample Extremes). From 1966 he conducted research at the Mathematisch Centrum (CWI) in Amsterdam. 1971/72 he was visiting professor at Stanford University . From 1977 until his retirement in 1988 he was a professor at the University of Rotterdam .
His work in extreme value statistics was partly motivated by the Delta Project , the defense of the Dutch coastlines against storm surges. Here he was involved in the Overschrijdingslijnen project (for determining dyke heights from statistical data, by the Rijkswaterstaat - Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) and the Meteorological Service of the Netherlands), which ran from 1984 to 1992, and in the Neptun project ( ended in 1997 and funded by the EU). In extreme value statistics, he also worked with AA Balkema ( Guus Balkema ). He also deals with extreme value theory in business.
De Haan was a part-time professor of statistics at Tilburg University from 2008 to 2011. In 1994 he was visiting professor at Beijing University .
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1977). In 2000 he received an honorary doctorate in Lisbon.
Fonts
- with Ana Ferreira: Extreme Value Theory: An Introduction , Springer Series in Operations Research and Financial Engineering 2006
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Laurens de Haan in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English) . Published in the Mathematisch Center Tracts
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Haan, Laurens de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch statistician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rotterdam |