Kurt Johansson (mathematician)

Kurt Johansson (born 1960) is a Swedish mathematician, specializing in probability theory.

Johansson received his PhD in 1988 from Uppsala University under the supervision of Lennart Carleson^[1] and is a professor in mathematics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.^[2]

In 2000 Johansson was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize in Probability theory. In 2002 he was an invited speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing^[3] and was awarded the Göran Gustafsson Prize. In 2006 he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 2012 he was elected a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Selected publications

• Johansson, Kurt (1997). "On Random Matrices from the Compact Classical Groups". The Annals of Mathematics. 145 (3): 519–545. doi:10.2307/2951843. JSTOR 2951843.
• Johansson, Kurt (1998). "On fluctuations of eigenvalues of random Hermitian matrices". Duke Mathematical Journal. 91 (1): 151–204. doi:10.1215/S0012-7094-98-09108-6. ISSN 0012-7094.
• Baik, Jinho; Deift, Percy; Johansson, Kurt (1999). "On the distribution of the length of the longest increasing subsequence of random permutations". Journal of the American Mathematical Society. 12 (4): 1119–1179. doi:10.1090/S0894-0347-99-00307-0.
• Johansson, Kurt (2000). "Transversal fluctuations for increasing subsequences on the plane". Probability Theory and Related Fields. 116 (4): 445–456. arXiv:math/9910146. doi:10.1007/s004400050258. hdl:2027.42/142448. S2CID 16313314.
• Johansson, Kurt (2000). "Shape Fluctuations and Random Matrices". Communications in Mathematical Physics. 209 (2): 437–476. arXiv:math/9903134. Bibcode:2000CMaPh.209..437J. doi:10.1007/s002200050027. ISSN 0010-3616. S2CID 16291076.
• Johansson, Kurt (2001). "Random Growth and Random Matrices". European Congress of Mathematics. Progress in Mathematics, vol. 201. pp. 445–456. doi:10.1007/978-3-0348-8268-2_25. ISBN 978-3-0348-9497-5.
• Johansson, Kurt (2001). "Discrete orthogonal polynomial ensembles and the Plancherel measure" (PDF). Annals of Mathematics. 153 (1): 259–296. arXiv:math/9906120. doi:10.2307/2661375. JSTOR 2661375. S2CID 14120881.
• Johansson, Kurt (2002). "Non-intersecting paths, random tilings and random matrices". Probability Theory and Related Fields. 123 (2): 225–280. arXiv:math/0011250. doi:10.1007/s004400100187. S2CID 17994807.
• Johansson, Kurt (2005). "Non-intersecting, simple, symmetric \- random walks and the extended Hahn kernel". Annales de l'Institut Fourier. 55 (6): 2129–2145. arXiv:math/0409013. doi:10.5802/aif.2155. ISSN 0373-0956. S2CID 8434266.
• Johansson, K. (2007). "From Gumbel to Tracy-Widom". Probability Theory and Related Fields. 138 (1–2): 75–112. doi:10.1007/s00440-006-0012-7. S2CID 15410267.
• Adler, Mark; Johansson, Kurt; Van Moerbeke, Pierre (2014). "Double Aztec diamonds and the tacnode process". Advances in Mathematics. 252: 518–571. arXiv:1112.5532. doi:10.1016/j.aim.2013.10.012.
• Adler, Mark; Chhita, Sunil; Johansson, Kurt; Van Moerbeke, Pierre (2015). "Tacnode GUE-minor processes and double Aztec diamonds" (PDF). Probability Theory and Related Fields. 162 (1–2): 275–325. doi:10.1007/s00440-014-0573-9. S2CID 119126886.
• Johansson, Kurt (2019). "The two-time distribution in geometric last-passage percolation". Probability Theory and Related Fields. 175 (3–4): 849–895. arXiv:1802.00729. doi:10.1007/s00440-019-00901-9.