Christer Kiselman's current and former PhD students

I am the second advisor of two graduate students.

Eric Beyram Torbrand is a graduate student of mathematics at Uppsala University. He presented his Licentiate Thesis at a seminar on June 7, 2006. Johan Tysk is his principal advisor.

Abtin Daghighi is a graduate student of mathematics at Mid Sweden University (Campus Sundsvall) from July 1, 2009, financed by the Graduate School in Mathematics and Computing. His principal advisor is Egmont Porten. Stefan Borell is his third advisor (effective 2011-11-30; before that date it was Cornelia Schiebold).

I have been the principal scientific advisor of the following seventeen persons.

• Christer Borell. Thesis: Convex Measures on Infinite-Dimensional Vector Spaces, defended on 1974-05-20 at Uppsala University. Opponent: Jørgen Hoffman-Jørgensen. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded him its Strömer—Ferrnerska prize in 1977 and its Edlundska prize on March 26, 1998. Now professor at Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg.

• Urban Cegrell. Thesis: Removable Singularities for Plurisubharmonic Functions and Related Problems, defended on 1975-05-23 at Uppsala University. Opponent: Pierre Lelong. Professor at Umeå University up to his retirement in 2010. Lives in Stockholm now.

• Bengt Josefson. Thesis: Analytic Phenomena in l ^∞(A) and c₀(A), defended on 1975-10-29 at Uppsala University. Opponent: Martin Schottenloher. Now senior lecturer at Linköping University.

• Aboubakr Bayoumi. Thesis: Holomorphic Functions on Metric Vector Spaces, defended on 1979-04-07 at Uppsala University. Opponent: Bengt Josefson. Now at Al-Azhar University, Cairo, and Basic Research Institute, Florida, USA; earlier professor at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

• Gunnar Berg. Thesis: Bounded Holomorphic Functions of Several Variables, defended on 1979-05-26 at Uppsala University. Opponent: Tord Ganelius. Senior lecturer at Uppsala University up to his retirement in 2009. Doing research on the history of mathematics.

• Leif Abrahamsson. Thesis: Extension of Holomorphic Mappings, defended on 1982-11-13 at Uppsala University. Opponent: Lawrence Gruman. Now senior lecturer at Uppsala University and Director of the International Programme in the Mathematical Sciences, Uppsala University.

• Mikael Passare. Thesis: Residues, Currents, and Their Relation to Ideals of Holomorphic Functions, defended on 1984-12-15 at Uppsala University. Opponent: Nils Øvrelid. Mikael was born on January 01, 1959, and died prematurely in Oman on September 15, 2011. Please go to the web page MIKAEL PASSARE IN MEMORIAM.

• Xiaoqin Wang. Thesis: Singular Integrals and Analyticity Theorems in Several Complex Variables, defended on 1990-05-05. Opponent: Ahmed Zeriahi. Now senior lecturer at University of Gävle.

• Stanley Einstein-Matthews. Thesis: Extremal Plurisubharmonic Functions and Complex Monge–Ampère Operators, defended on 1993-05-08 at Uppsala University. Opponent: Slawomir Kolodziej. Now full professor at Howard University, Washington, DC, USA.

• Stefan Halvarsson. Thesis: Duality in Convexity Theory Applied to Growth Problems in Complex Analysis, defended on 1996-05-15 at Uppsala University. Opponent: Józef Siciak. Now working with Försvarets radioanstalt, FRA.

• Jonas Avelin. Thesis: Differential Calculus for Multifunctions and Nonsmooth Functions, defended on 1997-05-24 at Uppsala University. Opponent: Boris Mordukhovich. Now working at the National Food Administration in Uppsala.

• Björn Ivarsson. Thesis: Regularity and Boundary Behavior of Solutions to Complex Monge–Ampère Equations, defended on 2002-02-08 at Uppsala University. Opponent: Zbigniew Blocki. Now senior lecturer at Mid Sweden University, Campus Sundvall.

• Thomas Ernst. Thesis: A New Method for q-Calculus, defended on 2002-11-14 at Uppsala University. Opponent: Hari M. Srivastava. (Sten Kaijser was his principal advisor prior to December, 2001; after that assistant advisor). Now researcher at Uppsala University.

• Ola Weistrand. Thesis: Global Shape Description of Digital Objects, defended on 2005-12-09 at Uppsala University. Opponent: Michael S. Floater. (Gunilla Borgefors and Örjan Smedby were assistant advisors.) Now working with RaySearch Laboratories in Stockholm.

• Erik Melin. Thesis: Digital Geometry and Khalimsky Spaces, defended on 2008-02-29 at Uppsala University. Opponent: Jean Serra. (Gunilla Borgefors and Mikael Passare were assistant advisors.) The Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala awarded him a Benzelius prize on September 2, 2008. Now working at Comsol in Stockholm.

• Hanna (Hania) Uscka-Wehlou defended her thesis Digital lines, Sturmian Words, and Continued Fractions on 2009-09-25 at Uppsala University. Opponent: Damien Jamet. Her other advisors were Maciej Klimek, Gunilla Borgefors, and Mikael Passare. The Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala awarded her a Benzelius prize on August 31, 2010. She is now employed at MITM AB, Uppsala, where she works on a new medical-decision-support system, iotaMed.

• Shiva Samieinia defended her thesis Digital Geometry, Combinatorics, and Discrete Optimization on 2011-01-21 at Stockholm University. Opponent: Rémy Malgouyres. Her other advisors were Julius Borcea up to 2009-04-08 and from that day on Rikard Bøgvad. She presented her Licentiate Thesis at a seminar on 2007-09-25 with Damien Jamet as the opponent. Now working at MITM AB (see above).

• Thomas Erlandsson. Thesis: Geometry of Contact Transformations in Dimension Three, defended on 1981-05-23 at Uppsala University. Opponent: Anders Melin. His principal advisor was William Thurston. Now senior lecturer at Uppsala University.
• Qi Guo. Thesis: Minkowski Measure of Asymmetry and Minkowski Distance for Convex Bodies, defended on 2004-05-26 at Uppsala University. Opponent: Marek Lassak. His principal advisor was Sten Kaijser. Now at Suzhou (Soochow) University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
• Robin Strand. Thesis: Distance Functions and Image Processing on Point-Lattices, defended on 2008-11-07 at Uppsala University. Opponent: David Coeurjolly. He was a graduate student in computerized image processing. Gunilla Borgefors was his principal advisor, Stina Svensson his second; I was his third. Now employed as a research assistant at Uppsala University, the Centre for Image Analysis.