Jakob Nordström

E-mail: jakobn at-sign kth dot se Telephone: +46 (0)8 790 69 19 Cellular +46 (0)70 742 21 98 Fax: +46 (0)8 790 09 30 Address: KTH Royal Institute of Technology School of Computer Science and Communication SE-100 44 Stockholm SWEDEN Visiting address: Osquars backe 2, 5th floor, office 4517 Office hours: By appointment

Denna webbsida finns också på svenska (se flaggan i övre vänstra hörnet).

News

• My PhD student Marc Vinyals successfully defended his thesis on June 9. Congratulations, Marc!
• Together with Johan Håstad and Per Austrin I have received a grant for the project Approximability and Proof Complexity from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. I have also received a Swedish Research Council Consolidator Grant for the project Proof Complexity and Efficient Computation.
• The Theory Group at KTH is arranging the 4th Swedish Summer School in Computer Science (S³CS 2017) July 16-22, 2017, with lectures by Ben Rossman and Ryan Williams on circuit complexity.
• I am the main organizer of the workshop Proof Complexity and Beyond at Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach in August 2017.
• I am also organizing the workshop Proof Complexity at Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik at the turn of the month January-February 2018, as well as the workshop Theory and Practice of Satisfiability Solving at Casa Matemática Oaxaca (affiliated with BIRS) in August 2018.

Professional activities

I am an Associate Professor in the Theoretical Computer Science Group at the School of Computer Science and Communication (CSC) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

During the academic years 2008-09 and 2009-10, I was a postdoc at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology hosted by Madhu Sudan.

Prior to that I was a PhD student of Johan Håstad in the Theory Group at KTH CSC, where I defended my PhD thesis in May 2008. For those who would prefer not to read the whole thesis there are instead [in Swedish only] a short popular science summary and a slightly longer popular science overview of my research.

During my doctoral studies at KTH, apart from doing some teaching I was also the President of the Postgraduate Students' Council (doktorandrådet) at KTH CSC and the postgraduate student representative in the School Board (skolstyrelsen) and the Executive Group (ledningsgruppen) of KTH CSC. I also organized the informal PhD student seminars in Theoretical Computer Science.

Some links

• Publications and presentations
• Research project
• Teaching
• Webpages for the Theory reading group and the Complexity meetings
• Open positions
• Biographic sketch
• Résumé/industrial CV in PDF or HTML (last updated March 3, 2016) and academic CV in PDF (last updated April 5, 2017)
• A list of practical links and some language-related links [both in Swedish, and not updated in a while]