Present position:

Managing director,
Norwegian Computing Center (Norsk Regnesentral)

Publications.

See the Norwegian Computing Center pages for more information.

Scientific key qualifications:

Mathematical modelling

            Petroleum reservoirs, finance, genetics 

            and several other applications

Statistics:

Spatial statistics - geostatistics

Stochastic models

Monte Carlo Markov Chain

 

Mathematics:

            Hyperbolic conservation laws

Numerical methods:

Partial differential equations

Reservoir characterization:

Stochastic models.

Upscaling

Reservoir simulation

Education:

Cand. Scient. (Master of Science equiv.): Majoring in Numerical Methods;
Department of Informatics, University of Oslo (1983).
Dr. Philos: Title: "Some Problems Related to Conservation Laws and Front Tracking." University of Oslo (1990)

 

Work experience:                    

 

1985-1990: ½ time scholarship from the Royal Norwegian          

Council for Technical and Industrial Research (NTNF).

1995-1997:  Part time professor in applied mathematics, University of Oslo.

1984-present: Norwegian Computing Center/Norsk Regnesentral:

1984-1989:   Research scientist

1990-2001:   Research director (forskningssjef)

             2001- : Managing director (adm.dir.)

Administrative chairs:

Member of Norwegian Mathematical Council, Representative from NR in 1984 and 1985.

Chairman of the union of employees at NR (FANR), 1985-1986.

Member of the board NR, 1986-1989, Representative for the employees.

Co-founder and Member of the board, Technical Software Consultants a.s.,1988-1995.

Co-founder and Deputy member of the board, Odin Reservoir Software & Services, 1992-1993

Deputy member of board, Geomatic, 1995-1996.

Editorial work: Assistant editor in Mathematical Geology, 1998-2007.

Member of board, Simula Research Laboratory, 2001-2005.

Member of board, Forskning.no deputy 2006-2007, member, 2007-

Member of board, Industrial Council, Norwegian Academy of Technical Science, 2007-

Member of board, Kunnskap Oslo, 2009-

Member in board, Forskningsinstituttenes fellesforum, 2009-

Chairman of board, Forskningsinstituttenes fellesarena, 2009-

Member of organizing committee of 9 international conferences.

Scientific

>20 journal papers

>50 scientific presentations at international conferences

Supervision of PhD students: 5 candidates 

 

Academy

Member of Norwegian Academy of Technical Science

 

Recent publications

I am still an active researcher in addition to administrative duties. Some of my recent publications:

Sandve GK, Gundersen S, Rydbeck H, Glad I, Holden L, Holden M, Liestøl K, Clancy T, Ferkingstad E, Johansen M, Nygård V, Tøstesen E, Frigessi A, and Hovig E: Inferential genomics at the sequence level: how to compare genomic scale data (submitted)

Holden, Lars; Haug, Ola: A Multidimensional Mixture Model for Unsupervised Tail Estimation (submitted)

Haavardsson, Nils F.; Huseby, Arne B. and Holden, Lars: A parametric class of production strategies for multi-reservoir production optimization (submitted)

Holden, Helge; Holden, Lars: Optimal rebalancing of portfolios with transaction costs (submitted) )  Full paper in pdf

 

Holden, Lars: Optimal rebalancing of portfolios with transaction costs assuming constant risk aversion (submitted)  Full paper in pdf

 

Holden, Lars: Some properties of Euler capital allocation (submitted) Full paper in pdf

 

Holden, Helge; Holden, Lars, Holden, Steinar: Contract adjustment under uncertainty (CESifo Working Paper Series No 1472, modified version accepted for publication in J. of Economic Dynamics & Control )  Full paper in pdf

 

Holden, Lars; Hauge, Ragnar and Holden, Marit: Adaptive independent Metropolis-Hastings, Annals of Applied Probability, Vol 19 (1), 2009, http://www.imstat.org/aap/  Full paper in pdf

Manzocchi, Tom; Carter, Jonathan N.; Skorstad, Arne; Fjellvoll, Bjørn; Stephen, Karl D.; Howell, John; Matthews, John D.; Walsh, John J.; Nepveu, Manuel; Bos, Christian; Cole, John; Egberts, Paul; Flint, Stephen; Hern, Caroline; Holden, Lars; Hovland, Henning; Jackson, Helen; Kolbjørnsen, Odd; MacDonald, Alister; Nell, Phil A. R.; Onyeagoro, Kachi; Strand, Julian; Syversveen, Anne Randi; Tchistiakov, Alexei; Yang, Canghu; Yielding, Graham; and Zimmerman, Robert W.: Sensitivity of the impact of geological uncertainty on production from faulted and unfaulted shallow marine oil reservoirs – objectives and methods. Petroleum Geoscience, Vol. 14/1, pp. 3-15, February 01, 2008.

Hauge, Ragnar; Holden, Lars, and Syversveen, Anne Randi: Well conditioning in object models, Mathematical Geology, 39(4) pp 383-398, May 2007

 


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E-mail: Lars.Holden@nr.no