CURRICULUM VITAE - BENT NATVIG

 

Personal information:

Born August 1. 1946 in Oslo. Married 1971 to Helga Sagsveen, architect. Children - Maren born 1975 and Martin born 1979.

 

Nationality:

Norwegian.

 

Present position:

Professor in Mathematical Statistics (Reliability Theory), University of Oslo, since 1986.

 

Adresses:

Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, P.O.Box 1053, Blindern, N-0316 Oslo, Norway, telephone 47 22855872, fax 47 22854349. Home address: Binneveien 2B, N-0774, Oslo, Norway, telephone 47 22492762. Email: bent@math.uio.no

 

Degrees:

Cand.real., University of Oslo 1970, Department of Statistics and Insurance Mathematics.

Thesis: A queueing model where potential customers are discouraged by queue length. (In Norwegian).

Ph.D., University of Sheffield 1976, Department of Probability and Statistics. Thesis: A contribution to the theory of birth-and-death queueing models.

 

Present research activities and fields of interest:

Reliability theory, risk analysis, Bayesian methods, model evaluation, earthquake predictions, effects and side effects of medical drugs, risk and society.

 

Positions:

Military service, Research Institute of Defense, 1971.

Research Assistant, Norwegian Institute of Technology - Trondheim, 1972 - September 1973.

Research Assistant/Lecturer, University of Oslo, September 1975 - July 1976.

Lecturer, Norwegian Institute of Technology - Trondheim, August 1976 - September 1977. Research Assistant/Research Fellow/Lecturer, University of Oslo, October 1977 - July 1980.

Senior Lecturer, University of Oslo, April 1981 - June 1986.

Professor in Mathematical Statistics (Reliability Theory), University of Oslo, July 1986 - Consultant, Norwegian Computing Centre, 1998 -

 

Stays abroad:

Leverhulme European Visiting Fellow, University of Sheffield, October 1973 - July 1975.

Visiting Fellow, Operations Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, August 1980 - March 1981.

Visiting professor, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, Great Britain, September 1994 - February 1995.

Visiting professor, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, North Carolina, January - April 2003.

 

 

 

 

Academic administrative positions:

Chairman teaching activities at the Department of Statistics and Insurance Mathematics, 1982 - 1983.

Head Department of Statistics and Insurance Mathematics, 1987 - 1988, 2005 - 2008.

Member of Budget Committee, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, 1987 - 1988. Dean, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, 1990 - 1993.

President, University Council, University of Oslo, 1993.

Chairman Board UNIK (University studies at Kjeller), 1995 - 1998.

Member Council for disabled students, University of Oslo, 1996 - 1998.

Member of Research Education Committee, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, 2000 – 2002.

 

Administrative positions outside academia:

Representative for the international Norwegian marathon runners in the Norwegian Athletics Association, 1977 - 80.

Representative - Board of Congregations in Oslo, 1982 - 90. (Vice-President 1989 - 90).

Board Member, Centre for Industrial Research, 1992.

Council Member, Society of Industrial and Technical Research at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, 1993.

Board Member, Norwegian Computing Centre, 1993 - 1996.

Board Member, Oslo Bishopric Council, 1998.

Observer, Norwegian Delegation to the UN General Assembly, 1998, 2001.

Chairman, The National Research Committee for Research Ethics in Science and Technology,

2000 - 2005.

 

Memberships:

Society of Reliability Engineers (Vice-President Scandinavian Chapter 1983 - 87).

Norwegian Statistical Association (President 1989 - 90).

Norwegian Actuarial Society.

Bernoulli Society.

International Statistical Institute (Elected member 1997).

Science and Responsibility in the Nuclear Age (President 1989 - 2006).

Participant Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (Nobel peace prize laureate 1995) 1988, 1990, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999. (Chairman Norwegian Pugwash Committee since 1996).

 

Editorial activities:

Associate editor Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability since 1999.

 

Publications:

68 published (2 submitted) papers mainly in reliability theory, queueing theory, Bayesian methods, biostatistics and on reliability and society. Three invited contributions on queueing theory and reliability theory to the Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences.

 

Books:

Probability Assessments in the Nuclear Age, 1987, Universitetsforlaget, Oslo. (In Norwegian).

Reliability with Technological Applications, 1989, Department of Mathematics, Univ. of Oslo.

(In Norwegian).

Basic Probability Calculus, 1993, Aschehoug, Oslo. (With T. Nordseth, in Norwegian).

The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons, 1997, Tiden, Oslo. (Coeditor and author of two articles, in Norwegian).

Two Cultures?, 2002, Pax, Oslo, (Coeditor, in Norwegian).

Giga Mathematics for High School Vg1P, Vg2P, Vg1T, Vg2T, R1, S1, X, 2006-2007, N.W. Damm & Søn. Oslo (With T. Andersen, P. Jasper, F. Viken, A.G. Aven, S. Ødegaard, N. Forus, B. Aadne, J. Berg, in Norwegian).

Multistate reliability theory with applications, Wiley, London. To appear in 2011.

 

Refereeing:

J. Appl. Prob. since 1973.

Adv. Appl. Prob. since 1973.

Mathematical Reviews since 1975.

Scand. J. Statist. since 1976.

European J. Operational Research since 1979.

Fuzzy Sets and Systems since 1981.

Mathematics of Operations Research since 1981.

Elektronische Informationsverarbeitung und Kybernetik since 1982.

Stochastic Models since 1983.

Operations Research since 1986.

Naval Research Logistics since 1986.

Annals of Statistics since 1986.

Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering since 1986.

Journal of Peace Research since 1987.

Scandinavian Actuarial Journal since 1987.

Metrika since 1987.

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference since 1988.

Statistics since 1988.

Opsearch since 1990.

JASA since 1993.

Arab Journal of Mathematical Sciences since 1997.

Journal of Multivariate Analysis since 2000.

Statistical Methods since 2002.

Statistical Modelling since 2003.

Biometrical Journal since 2003.

Statistical Papers since 2004.

Reliability Engineering & System Safety since 2004.

Ecological Modelling since 2006.

IIE Transactions since 2007.

International Statistical Review since 2007.

Operations Research Letters since 2007.

 

Supervisions:

7 Ph.D. students.

30 cand.real./cand.scient/master students.

 

Guest lecturing/Invited lectures:

England - University of Bradford, March 1975.

European Meeting of Statisticians, Oslo, August 1978.

XV Astin Colloqium, Loen, Norway, June 1981.

DDR - Humboldt-University of Berlin and Academy of Science, Dresden, May 1982 as invited through the mutual cultural agreement.

Sweden - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, November 1982.

Austria - Technische Universität Wien, October 1983.

USA - Operations Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, December 1983, 1985, 1989, as special guest of professor Richard Barlow.

Sweden - Reliability Workshops, Linköping, June 1984.

Nordic Conference on Mathematical Statistics, Bolkesjø, Norway, June 1984. Invited discussant. Sweden - Symposium to the Memory of Waloddi Weibull, Stockholm, June 1984.

Sweden - Chalmers Institute of Technology, Gothenburg, November 1986.

Denmark - Danish Engineering Society, Copenhagen, April 1987.

Sweden - Technical University of Linköping, October 1987.

USA - International Research Conference on Reliability, Columbia, Missouri, May 1988.

USA - Reliability Theory and Practice in Europe, George Washington University, Washington D.C., May 1988.

Nordic Conference on Mathematical Statistics, Åbo, Finland, June 1988. Invited discussant.

Sweden - Scandinavian Research Course in Reliability, Vadstena, August 1988. Main organizer and lecturer.

DDR - European Meeting of Statisticians, Berlin, August 1988. Invited organizer and speaker in reliability session.

Italy - Workshop on Experimental Design and Optimal Decisions in Reliability, Rome, June 1989. Norwegian Meeting of Statisticians, Innerøya, June 1989.

Denmark - Conference on Inadvertent Nuclear War, Copenhagen, June 1990.

Italy - Reliability and Decision Making, Siena, October 1990.

Spain - Complutense University of Madrid, April 1991.

Egypt - 48 th Session, International Statistical Institute, Cairo, September 1991.

Estonia - Implication of the Dissolution of the Soviet Union on Accidental/Inadvertent Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Pärnu, April 1992.

Nordic Conference on Mathematical Statistics, Røros, Norway, June 1992. Invited speaker in reliability session.

Sweden - Summer University, Växjö, August 1992.

Reliability Workshop, Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, August 1992.

Nordic Conference on Mathematical Statistics, Lund, Sweden, August 1994. Invited organizer and speaker in reliability session.

Great Britain - University of Leichester, January 1995.

Great Britain - University of Warwick, January 1995.

Ireland - University College, Dublin, February 1995.

International seminar on Radiation risk - risk perception and social constructions, Oslo, October, 1995. Invited speaker.

National ethics seminar, Oslo, April 1997. Invited speaker.

Workshop on risk assessment with special focus on genetically modified plants, Stockholm, March 1998. Invited speaker.

Mathematical Methods in Reliability. Methodology and Practice, Trondheim, June, 2002.

USA - SAMSI seminar in Large - scale Computer Models for Environmental Systems, Durham, North Carolina, March, 2003.

USA - The ISDS Research Seminar, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, March, 2003.

Greece - International Workshop in Applied Probability, Piraeus, March, 2004.

European Meeting of Statisticians, Oslo, July 2005. (With F. Dahl and J. Gåsemyr).

ESREL, Stavanger, June 2007.

Spain – ESREL, Valencia, September 2008.

Seminar for Sustainable Development Indicators (SDI) and Nature Index (NI), Oslo, May 2009.

Invited speaker.

Czech Republic – ESREL, Prague, September 2009.

 

 

International guests:

Professor Ilya Gertsbakh, Israel, 1980, 1983, 1986.

Professor Bo Bergman, Sweden, 1982.

Professor William Jewell, USA, 1982.

Professor Peter Franken, DDR, 1983.

Professor Reinhard Viertl, Austria, 1984.

Professor Nozer Singpurwalla, USA, 1986.

Professor Richard Barlow, USA, 1986.

NTNF Research Fellow, Nicole Mazars, France, 1986.

Professor Elja Arjas, Finland, 1987.

Professor Lennart Råde, Sweden, 1988.

NAVF Research Fellow Karel Andrzejczak, Poland, 1990.

Senior Lecturer Bernd Gerlach, DDR, 1991.

Senior Lecturer Walther Warmuth, DDR, 1991.

Professor Max Mendel, USA, 1991.

Research Fellow Elvira Jandl, Austria, 1992.

Reasearch Fellow Liu Zhenggao, China, 1996.

 

Evaluation committees for Ph.D.'s:

Stig Rosenlund, University of Gothenburg, 1983.

Terje Aven, University of Oslo, 1984.

Ilkka Norros, University of Helsinki, 1986.

Min Xie, University of Linköping, 1987.

Stian Lydersen, Norwegian Institute of Technology, 1988.

Thore Egeland, University of Oslo, 1989.

Kurt Pörn, University of Linköping, 1990.

Gutorm Høgåsen, University of Oslo, 1990.

Mogens Bladt, Aalborg University, 1993.

Gunnar Løvås, University of Oslo, 1994.

Harald Haukås, University of Oslo, 1995.

Ottar Aase, University of Oslo, 1999.

Øivind Skare, University of Oslo, 1999.

Diego Jimenez-Huerta, London School of Economics, 2009.

 

Evaluation committees for professorships:

Professorship in Quality Technology, University of Luleå 1990.

Adjoint professorship in Safety, Norwegian Institute of Technology, 1990.

Professorship in Safety Technology, Rogaland Regional College, 1992.

Adjoint professorship in statistics, Stavanger Regional College, 1999.

Adjoint professorship in mathematical statistics, University of Oslo, 2000.

Adjoint professorship in risk and reliability analysis, University of Oslo, 2009.

 

Participation in Radio and Television:

NRK P2, P2 Akademiet [Radio] 2000 - 03 - 29.

NRK P3, NRQ [Radio] 2001 - 01 - 18.

NRK P2, Verdt å vite [Radio] 2002 - 08 - 27.

TV2, Hasnaoui, [TV] 2003 - 12 - 13.

NRK, Puls [TV] 2005 - 02 - 28.

NRK, Forbrukerinspektørene [TV] 2005 - 06 - 01.

NRK DagsnyttAtten [Radio] 2007 - 03 - 16.

NRK Grosvold [TV] 2009 - 05 - 15.

 

Athletics:

Norwegian champion marathon 1970 and 25 kilometer roadrace 1974. Altogether 16 medals in Norwegian championchips in long distance running. Winner 30 kilometer roadrace in an international against Sweden 1971. Participant marathon European Championship, Helsinki 1971. International runner 1970-87. Winner over 40 London Marathon 1987. Personal best 10 000m 29.28.2, marathon 2.17.02 (London Marathon 1985).