Jaroslav Nešetřil

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Jaroslav Nešetřil
Medal of Merit of Czech Republic (2010), Gold medal of Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University (2011), elected to Academia Europaea (2012), honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (since 2013), Donatio Universitatis Carolinae prize (2018).
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
InstitutionsFaculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University
Thesis Structural Ramsey Theorems  (1973)
Doctoral advisorAleš Pultr
Gert Sabidussi
Doctoral studentsZdeněk Dvořák
Jan Kratochvíl
Robin Thomas

Jaroslav (Jarik) Nešetřil (Czech pronunciation:

NP-completeness
).

Education and career

Nešetřil received his

Ph.D. from Charles University in 1973 under the supervision of Aleš Pultr and Gert Sabidussi.[1] He is responsible for more than 300 publications.[2] Since 2006, he is chairman of the Committee of Mathematics of Czech Republic (the Czech partner of IMU
).

Jaroslav Nešetřil is Editor in Chief of Computer Science Review[3] and INTEGERS: the Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory.[4] He is also honorary editor of Electronic Journal of Graph Theory and Applications.[5] Since 2008, Jaroslav Nešetřil belongs to the Advisory Board of the Academia Sinica.[6]

Awards and honors

He was awarded the state prize (1985 jointly with Vojtěch Rödl) for a collection of papers in Ramsey theory. The book Sparsity - Graphs, Structures, and Algorithms he co-authored with Patrice Ossona de Mendez was included in ACM Computing Reviews list of Notable Books and Articles of 2012.[7]

Nešetřil is a corresponding member of the German Academy of Sciences since 1996 and has been declared Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Alaska (

Medal of Merit of Czech Republic[9] and the Gold medal of Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in 2011. In 2012, he has been elected to the Academia Europaea.[10]
Also, he has been elected honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2013.[11]

He was an invited speaker of the

Hyderabad, 2010.[13]

In 2018, on the occasion of the 670th anniversary of the establishment of Charles University, Nešetřil has received from the rector of Charles university the Donatio Universitatis Carolinae prize “for his contribution to mathematics and for his leading role in establishing a world-renowned group in discrete mathematics at Charles University”.[14]

Books

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  • ISBN 0-19-850207-9. 2008 2nd edition (hbk); 2009 2nd edition (pbk)
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References

  1. ^ Jaroslav Nešetřil at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ "List of publications of Jaroslav Nešetřil" (PDF). n.d. Retrieved 29 August 2023.
  3. ^ Editorial Board, Computer Science Review, Elsevier. Accessed January 29, 2011
  4. ^ Editorial Board, INTEGERS: the Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory. Accessed January 29, 2011
  5. ^ Editorial Team, Electronic Journal of Graph Theory and Applications. Accessed June 14, 2013
  6. ^ Advisory Board Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine, Academia Sinica. Accessed January 29, 2011
  7. ^ ACM Computing Reviews - Notable Computing Books and Articles of 2012, ACM Computing Reviews website. Accessed June 29, 2013
  8. Sud Ouest
    . 2009, September 11th
  9. ^ List of the recipients of the Medal of Merit, Prague Castle Website. Accessed January 29, 2011
  10. ^ Jaroslav Nešetřil's page on Academia Europaea, Academia Europaea website. Accessed November 12, 2012
  11. ^ New members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Archived 2014-09-03 at the Wayback Machine, Website of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Accessed May 11, 2013
  12. ^ Program Archived 2010-08-01 at the Wayback Machine, ECM 2008. Accessed January 29, 2011
  13. ^ Invited Speakers for ICM2010 Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine, ICM 2010 Website. Accessed January 29, 2011
  14. ^ Donatio Universitatis Carolinae pro prof. Nešetřila

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