Martin Emil Jakobsen is awarded the Edlund-DMF Thesis Prize
The Danish Mathematical Association's Thesis Prize of DKK 15,000 will be awarded to Martin Emil Jakobsen on Friday, 7 September 2018.
Once again the award for the best mathematical thesis has gone to a graduate from the University of Copenhagen. Eleven theses were nominated in 2017, written by graduate students from the Universities of Copenhagen, Aarhus and Aalborg, The University of Southern Denmark and the Technical University of Denmark.
"It was an extremely difficult task to designate a winner of the Thesis Prize among these outstanding theses. However, the members of the committee agree that the thesis of Martin Emil Jakobsen distinguishes itself by, at the same time including both new original contributions and giving a beautiful readable representation of a difficult topic, says the chairman of the assessment committee, Professor Vagn Lundsgaard Hansen, DTU.
Martin Emil Jakobsen is awarded the prize for the thesis "Distance Covariance in Metric Spaces - Non-Parametric Independence Testing in Metric Spaces". His supervisor was Thomas Mikosch.
Award ceremony and reception
The Edlund-DMF Thesis Prize has been awarded each year since 2008 and has been sponsored by Edlund A/S throughout the years. Edlund A/S provides solutions for the management of life insurance and pension portfolios.
Martin Emil Jakobsen receives the prize of 15,000 DKK on Friday, 7 September 2018 at the HC Ørsted Institute’s Auditorium 1.
- At 15.15, Martin and his supervisor Thomas Mikosch will give a lecture on the thesis and its subject area.
- At 16:30 there will be a reception in front of the auditorium. Everyone is welcome.
Back to the department
After graduating, Martin worked as an actuary in PFA Pension for a year and a half. But from 1 August 2018 he is back at the Department of Mathematical Sciences:
- Yes, I missed studying, so I applied for a job as
- My research will be somewhere between theoretical and applied statistics and probability theory. I see my thesis and my work as an actuary as being in each of these two ends, so I have a clear idea that the
Read more about the Prize and the assessment committee's recommendations on the Danish Mathematical Association's website