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László Lovász speaking in 2007 at the EPFL
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| Born | March 9, 1948 Budapest, Hungarian Republic |
| Nationality | Hungary |
| Fields | Mathematics, Computer Science |
| Institutions | Eötvös Loránd University |
| Alma mater | Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
| Doctoral advisor | Tibor Gallai |
| Doctoral students | András Frank Tamás Szőnyi Van Vu |
| Known for | President of the International Mathematical Union |
| Notable awards | Kyoto Prize (2010) Hungary's Széchenyi Grand Prize (2008) Bolyai prize (2007) Gödel Prize (2001) Wolf Prize (1999) Fulkerson Prize (1982) Best Information Theory Paper Award (IEEE) (1981) Pólya Prize (SIAM) (1979) |
László Lovász (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈlaːsloː ˈlovaːs], born March 9, 1948) is a Hungarian mathematician, best known for his work in combinatorics, for which he was awarded the Wolf Prize and the Knuth Prize in 1999, and the Kyoto Prize in 2010.
In high school, Lovász won gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad (in years 1964, 1965, 1966) and so did his son in 2008.[1]
Lovász received his Candidate of Sciences degree in 1970 at Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His advisor was Tibor Gallai.
Until 1975, Lovász worked at the Eötvös University, between 1975–1982, he led the Department of Geometry at the University of Szeged. In 1982, he returned to the Eötvös University, where he created the Department of Computer Science. The former and current scientists of the department include György Elekes, András Frank, József Beck, Éva Tardos, András Hajnal, Lajos Pósa, Miklós Simonovits, Tamás Szőnyi.
Lovász was a professor at Yale University during the 1990s and was a collaborative member of the Microsoft Research Center until 2006. He returned to Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, where he was the director of the Mathematical Institute (2006–2011).
He served as president of the International Mathematical Union between January 1, 2007 and December 31, 2010.[2]
Lovász was awarded the Bolyai prize in 2007 and Hungary's Széchenyi Grand Prize (2008). He received the Advanced Grant of the European Research Council (2008). He was elected foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2007), honorary member[3] of the London Mathematical Society (2009). He received the Kyoto Prize for Basic Science (2010). Lovász is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.[4]
Lovász wrote 6 papers with Paul Erdős, a mathematician who was famous for writing papers with co-authors, which earned Lovász an Erdős number of one.
He co-authored or edited the following books:
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