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Trond Reitan
Myrerskogveien 15, 0495 Oslo
92 29 28 94
22 85 46 33
trondr@bio.uio.no
12. of January, 1969
http://folk.uio.no/trondr
Education
2004 – 2005
1996 - 2003
1995
1991
1988 - 1995
1985 - 1988
Statistics courses connected to my Ph.D. study.
Several courses at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences,
University of Oslo.
Cand. Scient. in theoretical physics
Cand. Mag. with focus on physics
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo.
Fræna high school, with focus on sciences
Key qualifications:
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Long lasting interest in mathematics and science in general.
Experience with regression analysis, MCMC algorithms, Bayesian hierarchical models and
stochastic processes.
Good IT knowledge (UNIX, LINUX) and general understanding of computers. Long experience
with programming (C/C++ and Perl).
Curious and explorative, but with a critical mind.
Work experience
2009-2012
2008
2004 – 2008
2004 - 2008
1996 - 2004
1995
1995
1993 - 1994
Postdoc at CEES, University of Oslo (UiO):
Inference on stochastic differential equations for modelling multi-layered
models for phenotypic evolution. The work so far has involved a great deal
of programming as well as mathematics. Also involved in some other time
series modeling.
Researcher at the Norwegian Computing Center (NR).
I have been working at a simulation problem concerning financial risk, some
portability issues and initial analysis on medical data.
Research fellow in a Ph.D. study, University of Oslo (UiO):
Bayesian and classical analysis performed on hydrological data. The
problems were taken from NVE and given further academic study, but
always with a practical application in mind. I had a research fellow position
that required 25% teaching, which has given me some pedagogical
background.
Norwegian Water and Energy Administration (NVE), Oslo:
Consultant position for making and maintaining programs that use statistical
tools developed during the Ph.D. study.
Norwegian Water and Energy Administration (NVE):
Senior engineer at the informatics section of the hydrological group (HI),
where I for 8 years developed programs. Mainly, I used C++ on a
UNIX/Linux platform. The problems mainly revolved around connecting the
hydrological database with analysis and presentations. Some of the analysis
was of a statistical nature. Some experience with Perl, Shell and Java.
Participant in the PRISS project at USIT:
C programming of printer routines.
Participation at CERN:
Supervision of data collection.
Group teacher for two semesters at the department of theoretical
physics, UiO.
Languages
Norwegian and English
Spare time interests
Science, history, science fiction, fantasy, games, weight lifting, comic books,
bicycling
References
Guidance counselor, UiO:
Research partner;
CEES;
NVE;
Co-author and former
colleague:
Bent Natvig,
t: 22 85 58 72
Tore Schweder,
t: 22 85 51 44
Thomas F. Hansen, t: 22 85 45 21
Svein Taksdal,
t: 22 95 92 86
Asgeir Petersen-Øverleir, t: 93 42 24 25
Published articles:
Burgess, M., Haugerud, H., Straumsnes, S., Reitan, T. (2002).
Measuring system normality.
ACM Transactions on Computing Systems (TOCS),
Volume 20, Issue 2, Pages: 125 - 160
Petersen-Øverleir, A., Reitan, T. (2005).
Objective segmentation in compound rating curves.
Journal of Hydrology, Volume 311, Issues 1-4, Pages: 188-201
Petersen-Øverleir, A., Reitan, T. (2005).
Uncertainty in flood discharges from urban and small rural catchments
due to inaccurate head determination.
Nordic Hydrology, Volume 36, Pages: 245-257
Reitan, T., Petersen-Øverleir, A. (2006).
Existence of the frequentistic regression estimate of a power-law with a location parameter, with
applications for making discharge rating curves.
Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, Volume 20, Issue 6, Pages: 445 – 453.
Burgess, M., Reitan, T. (2007).
A risk analysis of disk backup or repository maintenance
Science of computer programming, Volume 64, Issue 3, Pages: 312-331.
Reitan, T., Petersen-Øverleir, A. (2008).
Bayesian power-law regression with a location parameter, with applications for construction of
discharge rating curves.
Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, Volume 22, Issue 3, Pages: 351-365.
Petersen-Øverleir, A., Soot, A., Reitan, T. (2009).
Bayesian rating curve inference as a streamflow data quality assessment tool.
Water resources Management, Volume 23, Number 9, Pages: 1835-1842.
Petersen-Øverleir, A., Reitan, T. (2009).
Accounting for rating curve imprecision in flood frequency analysis using likelihood-based
methods
Journal of Hydrology, Volume 366, Issues 1-4, Pages: 89-100.
Petersen-Øverleir, A., Reitan, T. (2009).
Bayesian analysis of stage–fall–discharge models for gauging stations affected by variable
backwater.
Hydrological Processes, Volume 23, Pages: 3057-3074.
Reitan, T., Petersen-Øverleir, A. (2009).
Bayesian methods for estimating multi-segment discharge rating curves.
Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, Volume 23, Issue 5, Pages: 627-642.
(cont)
Reitan, T., Aas, K. (2010/2011).
A New Robust Importance Sampling Method for Measuring VaR and ES Allocations for Credit
Portfolios.
Journal of Credit Risk, Volume 6, Number 4.
Price, K., Jackson, C. R., Parker, A. J., Reitan, T., Dowd, J., Cyterski, M. (2011).
Effect of Watershed Land Use and Geomorphology on Stream Low Flows During Severe Drought
Conditions in the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains, Georgia and North Caroline, United States.
Water Resources Research, Volume 47, W02516, 19PP.
Natvig, B., Gåsemyr, J. I., Reitan, T. (2011).
Bayesian Assessment of Availabilities and Unavailabilities of Multistate Monotone Systems.
Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, online first.
Reitan, T., Petersen-Øverleir, A. (2011).
Dynamic Rating Curve Assessment in Unstable Rivers Using Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Processes.
Water resources Research, Volume 47, W02524, 14 PP.
Reitan, T., Schweder, T., Henderiks, J. (2012).
Phenotypic Evolution studied by Layered Stochastic Differential Equations.
Applied Statistics, accepted.
Book chapters:
System reliability, in Handbook of network and system administration, Elsevier 2007. Editor:
Mark Burgess and Jan Bergstra.