Imre Bárány - Curriculum Vitae#
- Graduated in 1971, from Eötvös University, Budapest
- PhD in 1982, from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Doctor of Sciences in 1993, from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2010
- Astor Professor of Pure Mathematics at University College London since 2011
Research interests include combinatorics, discrete geometry, convexity, random polytopes, lattice polytopes, algebraic topology, and their applications in computer science, mathematical programming, operations research, game theory
Positions held:
- MSRI in Berkeley, Simons visiting professor, 2017 autumn term
- IPAM at UCLA, visting researcher, 2014 spring term
- EPFL Lausanne, visiting professor, 2010 autumn term
- ETH Zurich, Nachdiplom Lecturer, 2008 spring term
- Hebrew University Jerusalem, visiting professor, 2007 spring term
- MSRI in Berkeley, visiting professor, 2003 autumn term\
- Microsoft Research, Redmond, visiting researcher, 2004 spring term
- University College London: research fellow 1986 - 1987, visiting professor 1998 - 2021 (half position)
- Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 1978, research professor since 2010
- Yale University: visiting professor 1989 - 1991, and in 1994
- Cornell University: visiting professor, 1986
- Universite Catholique, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, maitre de conference, 1982 - 1983
Editor od several journals:
Discrete and Computational Geometry (since 1991), Periodica Mathematica Hungarica (since 1997), Combinatorica (since 1999) and Editor-in-Chief (since 2020), Mathematika (since 2002), Acta Mathematica Hungarica (since 2010) and Editor-in-Chief (2014 - 2020), Area Editor for Mathematics of Operations Research (2008 - 2015), Editor-in-Chief of Matematikai Lapok (1994 - 2003)
Selected plenary or invited lectures:
- Algebraic Topology: Methods, Computation and Science (IST Austria, 2018)
- Combinatorial Convexity, (IHP Paris, 2015), Combinatorics, (Pisa, 2012), Delone 120 (Moscow, 2010)
- SIAM Discrete Mathematics (Austin, 2010), Convexity (Vienna, 2009), Building Bridges (Budapest, 2008)
- Horizons in Combinatorics (Balatonfured, 2006), Erdos lecturer (Jerusalem 2004), FPSAC'03, (Linkopping 2003)
- ICM meeting (2002 Beijing), Erdos Memorial Conference (Budapest 1999)
Publications} more than 170 research papers, mostly in English, published in international journals
Awards and special honours:
- Rényi Prize (1988), Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1998)
- Invited speaker at ICM 2002, Beijing, Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2010)
- Recipient of the ERC Advanced Research Grant (2011). Astor Professor of Mathematics at UCL (2011)
- Fellow of the AMS (2012), Szechenyi Prize (2016)