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Kristján Jónasson - Professor
–
School of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Kristján Jónasson
Íslenska
Professor
Location
Gróska / Gr-324
Phone
525 - 4735
8228860
Email
jonasson [at] hi.is
Unit
Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science
Website
http://www.hi.is/~jonasson
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9066-3128
Research portal – Kristján Jónasson
Courses 2024 - 2025
REI201G - Mathematics and Scientific Computing
TÖL104G - Mathematical Structure
TÖL019F - Project in language technology
Education
1985
,
PhD
,
University of Dundee
,
numerical analysis
1980
,
BS
,
University of Iceland
,
mathematics
Professional Experience
2008 -
,
Professor,
University of Iceland
2006 -
2008,
Associate professor,
University of Iceland
2002 -
2005,
Assistant professor,
University of Iceland
1998 -
2002,
Genetic statistics,
Decode Genetics
1996 -
1998,
Avalanche hazards,
Icelandic Meteorological Office
Published works
2024
Hydraulically linked reservoirs simultaneously fed the 1975–1984 Krafla Fires eruptions
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
2022
Fifty-year evolution of thermal manifestations at Surtsey Volcano, 1968-2018
Surtsey research
2021
Prevalence and early-life risk factors of school-age allergic multimorbidity
Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
A harmonised instrumental earthquake catalogue for Iceland and the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Chlorine isotope ratios record magmatic brine assimilation during rhyolite genesis
Geochemical Perspectives Letters
2020
Algorithm 1005
ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
Alteration progress within the Surtsey hydrothermal system, SW Iceland – A time-lapse petrographic study of cores drilled in 1979 and 2017
Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
Comparison of seismicity parameters from various earthquake catalogues for Iceland
2019
Operational report for the 2017 Surtsey Underwater volcanic System for Thermophiles, Alteration processes and INnovative concretes (SUSTAIN) drilling project at Surtsey Volcano, Iceland
SUSTAIN drilling at Surtsey volcano, Iceland, tracks hydrothermal and microbiological interactions in basalt 50 years after eruption
Scientific Drilling
2018
Silicon and oxygen isotopes unravel quartz formation processes in the Icelandic crust
Geochemical Perspectives Letters
Fish oil in infancy protects against food allergy in Iceland-Results from a birth cohort study
Allergy
2016
Gradual caldera collapse at Bárdarbunga volcano, Iceland, regulated by lateral magma outflow
Science
The exact Gaussian likelihood estimation of time-dependent VARMA models
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
2015
Time-lapse characterization of hydrothermal seawater and microbial interactions with basaltic tephra at Surtsey Volcano
Scientific Drilling
2014
The wind energy potential of Iceland
Renewable Energy
Smart data analytics methods for remote sensing applications
2013
Generation of simulated time series for wind speed based on a statistical wind atlas for iceland
Discounted value of economic rent in hydro and geothermal expansion planning in Iceland
A comparison of two hydro scheduling algorithms, SDDP and LpSim
Generation of simulated time series for wind speed based on a statistical wind atlas for Iceland
A comparison of two hydro scheduling algorithms, SDDP and LpSim
2012
Falling into Vínland
Acta Archaeologica
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
2011
An empirical study of software architectures' effect on product quality
Journal of Systems and Software
2010
Genome-wide search for breast cancer linkage in Icelandic families suggests chromosomes 2p, 6q and 14q to harbour interacting breast cancer risk genes
Breast Cancer Research
Effects of knowledge, education, and experience on acceptance of first trimester screening for chromosomal anomalies
Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
Genome-wide search for breast cancer linkage in large Icelandic non-BRCA1/2 families
Breast Cancer Research
2009
Algorithm 892
ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
Suspected infections in children treated for ALL
Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics
2008
Cosmic rays, cloud condensation nuclei and clouds - A reassessment using MODIS data
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Matlab
Algorithm 878
ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
Evaluating exact VARMA likelihood and its gradient when data are incomplete
ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
2004
Spá um meðalhita í Reykjavík á 21. öld
RAUST - Tímarit um raunvísindi og stærðfræði
Association of Vitamin D Binding Protein Variants with Chronic Mucus Hypersecretion in Iceland
American Journal of PharmacoGenomics
Avalanche hazard zoning in Iceland based on individual risk
Annals of Glaciology
2003
Monte Carlo Based Risk Analysis in Hydroelectric Power System Expansion Planning in the Presence of Uncertainty in Project Cost and Capacity
Linkage of osteoporosis to chromosome 20p12 and association to BMP2
PLoS Biology
Monte Carlo based risk analysis in hydroelectric power system expansion planning in the presence of uncertainty in project cost and capacity
2000
Allegro, a new computer program for multipoint linkage analysis
Nature Genetics
1998
Transferring avalanches between paths
Publikasjon - Norges Geotekniske Institutt
1994
Corrected sequential linear programming for sparse minimax optimization
BIT
1993
A projected conjugate gradient method for sparse minimax problems
Numerical Algorithms
1982
A Lagrangian method for multivariate continuous Chebyshev Approximation problems
Keywords for Specialisation:
Numerical optimization
Statistics
Algorithms
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