László Lovász#
| Membership Number: | 1131 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 1991 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.cs.elte.hu/~lovasz |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 - 2024 Academic Director of the AE Budapest Knowledge Hub
- Since 2011 Professor, Mathematical Institute, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)
- 2006 - 2011 Director, Mathematical Institute, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)
- 1999 - 2006 Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
- 1993 - 2000 Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Yale University
- 1983 - 1993 Professor, Chair of Computer Science, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)
- 1978 - 1982 Professor, Chair of Geometry, JJozsef Attila University Szeged
- 1975 - 1978 Docent, Jozsef Attila University Szeged
- 1971 - 1975 Research Associate, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)
Fields of Scholarship
- Combinatorial optimization
- Graph theory
- Theoretical computer science
Honours and Awards
- 1985 Regular member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1979 Corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1981 European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Humanities
- 1991 Member of Acedamia Europaea
- 1993 Corresponding member of the Rheinland-Westphälische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- 2002 Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
- 2006 Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- 2006 Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Science
- 2007 Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2009 Honorary member of the London Mathematical Society
- 2012 Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the US
- 1992 Doctor Honoris Causa University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- 1999 Doctor Honoris Causa University of Szeged, Hungary
- 2002 Doctor Honoris Causa Budapest University of Technology
- 2006 Doctor Honoris Causa University of Calgary
- 1981 Best Information Theory Paper Award, IEEE
- 1982 Ray D.Fulkerson Prize, Amer. Math. Soc.Math. Prog. Soc.
- 1985 State Prize, Hungary
- 1992 Tibor Szele Medal, Bolyai Society
- 1993 Brouwer Medal, Dutch Matematical Society - Royal Netherl. Acad. Sci.
- 1998 National Order of Merit of Hungary
- 1998 Bolzano Medal, Czech Mathematical Society
- Wolf Prize, Israel, 1999
- 1999 Knuth Prize, ACM-SIGACT
- 2001 Corvin Chain, Hungary
- 2001 Goedel Prize, ACM-EATCS
- 2005 John von Neumann Medal, IEEE
- 2006 John von Neumann Theory Prize, INFORMS
- 2007 Bolyai Prize, Hungary
- Kyoto Prize, Inamori Foundation, 2010
- 2012 Ray D.Fulkerson Prize, Amer. Math. Soc.Math. Prog. Soc.
- 2019 Hypatia Prize, Academia Europaea
- 2021 Abel Prize
