László Lovász
László Lovász speaking in 2007 at the EPFL
Born	March 9, 1948 (1948-03-09) (age 60) Budapest, Hungary
Residence	Budapest, Hungary
Nationality	Hungarian, American
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	Eötvös Loránd University
Alma mater	Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Known for	president of the International Mathematical Union
Notable awards	Pólya Prize (SIAM) (1979) Best Information Theory Paper Award (IEEE) (1981) Fulkerson Prize (1982) Wolf Prize (1999) Gödel Prize (2001) Bolyai prize (2007) Hungary's Széchenyi Grand Prize (2008).

László Lovász (born March 9, 1948 in Budapest, Hungary) (pronounced [ˈlaːsloː ˈlovaːs]) is a mathematician, best known for his work in combinatorics, for which he was awarded the Wolf Prize and the Knuth Prize in 1999.

In high school, Lovasz won gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad (in years 1964, 1965, 1966) and so did his son in 2008 ^[1].

Lovász received his Ph.D. in 1970 at Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His advisor was Tibor Gallai.^[2]

Lovász was a professor at Yale University during the 1990s and was a collaborative member of the Microsoft Research Center until 2006. Now he has returned to Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, where he is the director of the Mathematical Institute.

He serves as president of the International Mathematical Union since January 1, 2007^[3].

Lovász was awarded the Bolyai prize in 2007 and Hungary's Széchenyi Grand Prize (2008).

He has an Erdős number of 1.

[edit] See also

• Topological combinatorics
• Lovász conjecture
• Erdős–Faber–Lovász conjecture
• Lovász local lemma
• LLL algorithm
• Perfect graph theorem
• Greedoid
• Bell number

[edit] References

1. ^ Laszlo Miklos Lovasz
2. ^ László Lovász at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
3. ^ The IMU Executive Committee 2007-2010

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