Jaroslav Nešetřil Scientist
Jaroslav Nešetřil (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjaroslaf ˈnɛʃɛtr̝̊ɪl]; born March 13, 1946 in Brno) is a Czech mathematician, working at Charles University in Prague. His research areas include combinatorics (structural combinatorics, Ramsey theory), graph theory (coloring problems, sparse structures), algebra (representation of structures, categories, homomorphisms), posets (diagram and dimension problems), computer science (complexity, NP-completeness). Nešetřil received his Ph.D. from Charles University in 1973. He is responsible for more than 300 publications. 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 Reviewslist of Notable Books and Articles of 2012.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 (Fairbanks) in 2002. Since 2006, he is chairman of the Committee of Mathematics of Czech Republic (the Czech partner of IMU). He has also been declared Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Bordeaux 1 in 2009; the speech he made in French at this occasion attracted a great deal of attention. He received in 2010 the Medal of Merit of Czech Republic and the Gold medal of Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in 2011. In 2012, he has been elected to the Academia Europaea. Also, he has beenelected honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2013.He was an invited speaker of the European Congress of Mathematics, in Amsterdam, 2008, and invited speaker (by both the Logic and Foundations and Combinatorics sections) at the Combinatorics session of the International Congress of Mathematicians, in Hyderabad, 2010.Jaroslav Nešetřil is Editor in Chief of Computer Science Review and INTEGERS: the Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory.He is also honorary editor of Electronic Journal of Graph Theory and Applications.He also belongs to the Editorial Board of Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae,Combinatorica,Journal of Graph Theory,Geocombinatorics, European Journal of Combinatorics,Archivum Mathematicum,and AKCE International Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics.He used to belong to the Editorial Board of Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B (1980–1986) and Random Structures & Algorithms (1988–2008).Since 2008, Jaroslav Nešetřil belongs to the Advisory Board of the Academia Sinica.He has an Erdős number of 1.
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