Biographie de Bernt Oksendal
Bernt Oksendal was born in Fredrikstad, Norway in 1945. He studied at the University of Oslo, and obtained his Ph.D from UCLA. He has been a professor at the University of Oslo since 1991, and at the same time an adjunct professor at the N'orwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen, Norway, since 1992. He has been a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters since 1996.
His main field of interest is stochastic analysis, including stochastic control, optimal stopping, stochastic ordinary and partial differential equations and applications, particularly to physics, biology and finance. Oksendal's 120 publications include 9 books. His non-mathematical interests and pleasures include jogging, music, nature and wildlife.