Endre Szemerédi#
| Membership Number: | 3184 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.renyi.hu/~szemered |
Present and Previous Positions
- Fellow at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
- Since 1986 he has also been New Jersey Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
- Szemerédi has held visiting positions at Stanford University (1974), McGill University, Montreal (1980), the University of South Carolina (1981 - 1983), the University of Chicago (1985 - 1986), the California Institute of Technology (Fairchild Distinguished Scholar, 1987 - 1988), the University of Montreal (Aisenstadt Chair at Centre de Recherches Mathématiques), the Mathematical Science Research Institute, Berkeley (Eisenbud Professor, 2008), and the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at Princeton University
Fields of Scholarship
- Discrete mathematics
- Combinatorics
- Theoretical computer science
- Number theory
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Abel Prize (Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters)
- 2012 Széchenyi Prize (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
- 2008 Rolf Schock Prize (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
- 2008 Leroy P. Steele Prize (American Mathematical Society)
- 1979 Akadémia Prize (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
- 1975 Pólya Prize for Achievement in Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
- 1973 Rényi Prize
- 1967 Grünwald Prize
- 1968 Grünwald Prize
- 1982 Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2010 Member of the US National Academy of Sciences
- 2010 Honorary doctor of the Charles University in Prague, the Czech Republic
