Matstat seminarium 27 april 13.15 i MH227 Stochastic order relations and some examples Søren Asmussen, Lund I will give a survey of some ordering relations between distributions and their properties, including the convex order and Strassen's theorem, and move on to sketch some of the examples I myself have been involved in studying, basically comparing risks and waiting times of different systems in insurance mathematics / queueing.