Lars Håkan Eliasson (born 13 July 1952) is a Swedish mathematician.

Biography

Eliasson received in 1984 his PhD from the

Stockholm University Stockholm University (SU) () is a public university, public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, social ...

under

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with thesis ''Hamiltonian systems with Poisson commuting integrals''. He was a professor at the

Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology (), abbreviated KTH, is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH conducts research and education in engineering and technology and is Sweden's largest technical university. Since 2018, KTH consist ...

in Stockholm and then became a professor at the

University of Paris VII Paris Diderot University, also known as Paris 7 (), was a French university located in Paris, France. It was one of the inheritors of the historic University of Paris, which was split into 13 universities in 1970. Paris Diderot merged with Paris ...

(Denis Diderot) and the Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu of the Universities Paris VI and VII and the

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. His research deals with dynamical systems, quasiperiodic motion, the problem of small denominators in perturbation theory, the KAM Theory and multiscale analysis in perturbation theory, Hamiltonian partial differential equations, and localization and diffusion in quasiperiodic Schrödinger operators. In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker at the

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in Berlin. In 2005 and in 2012 he was at the

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.Eliasson, Hakan , Institute for Advanced Study
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1995 he received the

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, 2007 he received the Eva & Lars Gårding Prize in Mathematics and 2008 he received the

Sophie Germain Prize The Sophie Germain Prize (in French: ''Prix Sophie Germain'') is an annual mathematics prize awarded by the French Academy of Sciences to researchers who have carried out fundamental research in mathematics. The award has been conferred every year ...

. He was at the editorial committee of

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2012–2017.

Selected publications

* * * * *with Sergei Kuksin:

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Eliasson, Hakan 1952 births 20th-century Swedish mathematicians 21st-century Swedish mathematicians Academic staff of the University of Paris Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars Living people Stockholm University alumni