Foundations of Modern Probability (Probability Theory and Stochastic Modelling, 99)

Olav Kallenberg (Ph.D., Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden, 1972) is an Emeritus Professor at Auburn University. He has held research positions in Sweden and abroad and taught in the US for more than 30 years. In 1977 he was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize by Cambridge University, in 1989 he was elected a Fellow of the IMS, and in 1991–94 he served as the editor of PTRF. He has given plenary talks at major conferences all over the world, and was the opening lecturer at both the Vilnius Conference in 2006 and at the SPA Conference in Gothenburg in 2018. Apart from his numerous research papers, he is known for his Springer books Probabilistic Symmetries and Invariance Principles (2005) and Random Measures, Theory and Applications (2017). His book Foundations of Modern Probability (1997, 2002, and 2021) has become a classic reference work.