János Pach#
| Membership Number: | 3736 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.renyi.hu/~pach |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 - present Chair of Combinatorial Geometry, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
- 1977 - present Research Fellow (since 1995, Research Advisor), Rényi Institute of Mathematics, ELKH
- 1992 - 2008 Professor (after 2003, Distinguished Professor) of Computer Science, City College, City University of New York
- 1986 - 2008 Research Professor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
- 2008 Neilson Professor, Smith College, Northampton
- 2003 Visiting Professor, MSRI Berkeley
- 1999 Forchheimer Visiting Professor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
- 1991 - 1992 Research Fellow, University College London
- 1984 Visiting Professor, McGill University, Montreal
- 1981 - 1982 Research Fellow, University College London
Fields of Scholarship
- Combinatorics
- Discrete and computational geometry
- Geometric graph theory
- Graph drawing
- Packing and covering
- Convexity
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Invited Address, International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), Seoul
- 2013 Plenary Address, Erdős Centennial Conference, Budapest
- 2011 ACM Fellow
- 2004 Paul Erdős Lectures, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
- 2003 Plenary Address, Annual Meeting of the German Mathematical Society
- 1998 Academy Award, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1996 Plenary Address, Annual Meeting of the American Mathematical Society
- 1993 Rényi Prize, Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1990 Lester R. Ford Award, Mathematical Association of America
- 1984 Young Researchers' Award, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1983 Gold Ring of the President of the Republic of Hungary
- 1982 Grünwald Medal, János Bolyai Mathematical Society
