János Pach

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János Pach

János Pach at Graph Drawing 2009
Born (1954-05-03) May 3, 1954
Hungary
Alma mater Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary, (M.S., Math., 1977; Ph.D., Math., 1981)
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, (Candidate, 1983; Doctorate, 1995) [1]
Occupation professor and mathematician
Known for combinatorics and computational geometry

János Pach (born May 3, 1954)[2] is a mathematician and computer scientist working in the fields of combinatorics and discrete and computational geometry.

Biography

Pach was born and grew up in Hungary. He comes from a noted academic family: his father, Zsigmond Pál Pach was a well known historian, and his uncle Pál Turán was one of the best known Hungarian mathematicians.

Pach received his Candidate degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in 1983, where his advisor was Miklós Simonovits.[3]

Since 1977, he has been affiliated with the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.[4] He was Research Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematics at NYU[5] (since 1986), Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at City College, CUNY (1992-2011), and Neilson Professor at Smith College (2008-2009). In 2008, he joined École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne[2] as Professor of Mathematics. He was the program chair for the International Symposium on Graph Drawing in 2004. With Herbert Edelsbrunner and Günter Ziegler, he is co-editor-in-chief of the journal Discrete & Computational Geometry, and he serves on the editorial boards of several other journals including Combinatorica, SIAM Journal of Discrete Mathematics, Computational Geometry, Graphs and Combinatorics, Central European Journal of Mathematics, and Moscow Journal of Combinatorics and Number Theory.

Research

Pach has authored several books and over 200 research papers. He was one of the most frequent collaborators of Paul Erdős, authoring over 20 papers with him and thus has an Erdős number of one.[6]

Pach's research is focused in the areas of combinatorics and discrete geometry. In 1981, he solved Ulam's problem, showing that there exists no universal planar graph.[7] In the early 90s[8] together with Micha Perles, he initiated the systematic study of extremal problems on topological and geometric graphs.

Some of Pach's most-cited research work[9] concerns the combinatorial complexity of families of curves in the plane and their applications to motion planning problems[10][11] the maximum number of k-sets and halving lines that a planar point set may have,[12] crossing numbers of graphs,[13][14] embedding of planar graphs onto fixed sets of points,[15][16] and lower bounds for epsilon-nets.[17][18]

Awards and honors

Pach received the Grünwald Medal of the János Bolyai Mathematical Society (1982), the Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America (1990), and the Alfréd Rényi Prize from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1992).[19][20] In 2011 he was listed as a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for his research in computational geometry.[21]

Books

  • Pach, János, ed. (1993), New Trends in Discrete and Computational Geometry, Algorithms and Combinatorics 10, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-540-55713-5 .
  • Pach, János; Agarwal, Pankaj K. (1995), Combinatorial Geometry, Wiley-Interscience Series in Discrete Mathematics and Optimization, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 978-0-471-58890-0 .
  • Aronov, Boris; Basu, Saugata; Pach, János et al., eds. (2003), Discrete and Computational Geometry: The Goodman–Pollack Festschrift, Algorithms and Combinatorics 25, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-540-00371-7  .
  • Pach, János, ed. (2004), Towards a Theory of Geometric Graphs, Contemporary Mathematics 342, American Mathematical Society, ISBN 978-0-8218-3484-8 .
  • Pach, János, ed. (2004), Graph Drawing: 12th International Symposium, GD 2004, New York, NY, USA, September 29-October 2, 2004, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3383, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-540-24528-5 .
  • Brass, Peter; Moser, W. O. J.; Pach, János, eds. (2005), Research Problems in Discrete Geometry, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-0-387-23815-9 .
  • Goodman, Jacob E.; Pach, János; Emo, Welzl, eds. (2005), Combinatorial and Computational Geometry, MSRI Publications 52, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-84862-6 .
  • Goodman, Jacob E.; Pach, János; Pollack, Richard, eds. (2008), Surveys on Discrete and Computational Geometry: Twenty Years Later, Contemporary Mathematics 453, American Mathematical Society, ISBN 978-0-8218-4239-3 .
  • Pach, János; Sharir, Micha (2009), Combinatorial Geometry and Its Algorithmic Applications: The Alcalá Lectures, Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, American Mathematical Society, ISBN 978-0-8218-4691-9 .
  • Pach, János, ed. (2013), Thirty essays on geometric graph theory, Springer, ISBN 978-1-4614-0110-0 .

See also

References

  1. ↑ Bio: Janos Pach, Chair of Combinatorial Geometry École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 János Pach appointed as a full professor of mathematics, EPFL, December 12, 2007.
  3. ↑ János Pach at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ Research Fellows, Renyi Institute
  5. ↑ Faculty profile, NYU, retrieved 2011-08-15.
  6. ↑ Computing Your Erdös Number
  7. ↑ Pach, János (1981), "A problem of Ulam on planar graphs", European J. Combin. 2: 357–361 
  8. ↑ AMS Meeting
  9. ↑ Google scholar, retrieved October 23, 2008.
  10. ↑ Kedem, Klara; Livne, Ron; Pach, János; Sharir, Micha (1986), "On the union of Jordan regions and collision-free translational motion amidst polygonal obstacles", Discrete and Computational Geometry 1 (1): 59–71, doi:10.1007/BF02187683 .
  11. ↑ Edelsbrunner, Herbert; Guibas, Leonidas J.; Pach, János; Pollack, Richard; Seidel, Raimund; Sharir, Micha, "Arrangements of curves in the plane: topology, combinatorics, and algorithms", 15th Int. Colloq. Automata, Languages and Programming, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 317, Springer-Verlag, pp. 214–229 .
  12. ↑ Pach, János; Steiger, William; Szemerédi, Endre (1992), "An upper bound on the number of planar K-sets", Discrete and Computational Geometry 7 (1): 109–123, doi:10.1007/BF02187829 .
  13. ↑ Pach, János; Tóth, Géza (1997), "Graphs drawn with few crossings per edge", Combinatorica 17 (3): 427–439, doi:10.1007/BF01215922 .
  14. ↑ Pach, János; Tóth, Géza (2000), "Which crossing number is it, anyway?", Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B 80 (2): 225–246, doi:10.1006/jctb.2000.1978 .
  15. ↑ de Fraysseix, Hubert; Pach, János; Pollack, Richard (1988), "Small sets supporting Fáry embeddings of planar graphs", Proc. 20th ACM Symp. Theory of Computing, pp. 426–433, doi:10.1145/62212.62254 .
  16. ↑ Pach, János; Wenger, Rephael (2001), "Embedding planar graphs at fixed vertex locations", Graphs and Combinatorics 17 (4): 717–728, doi:10.1007/PL00007258 .
  17. ↑ Komlos, János; Pach, János; Woeginger, Gerhard (1992), "Almost tight bounds for ε-nets.", Discrete & Computational Geometry 7 (2): 163–173 .
  18. ↑ Pach, János; Tardos, Gábor (2013), "Tight lower bounds for the size of epsilon-nets", J. Amer. Math. Soc. 26: 645–658 .
  19. ↑ "Rényi-díj". Alfred Rényi Institute of Mathematics. Retrieved 8 March 2010. 
  20. ↑ Short biography, from SFU Computing Science.
  21. ↑ ACM Names Fellows for Computing Advances that Are Driving Innovation, Association for Computing Machinery, December 8, 2011.

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