Károly Bezdek
Károly Bezdek | |
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| Born | May 28, 1955 |
| Nationality | Hungarian Canadian |
| Known for | books "Classical topics in discrete geometry", Springer, 2010 and "Lectures on sphere arrangements - the discrete geometric side", Springer, 2013 |
| Awards | László Fejes Tóth Prize (2015), Research Excellence Award of the University of Calgary (2017), Immigrant of Distinction Award for Lifetime Achievement of the City of Calgary (2020) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Eötvös Loránd University (Ph.D., Math., 1980; Dr.habil., Math., 1997) and Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Candidate, 1985; Doctorate, 1995) |
| Doctoral advisor | Károly Böröczky (Eötvös Loránd University) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Eötvös Loránd University, University of Calgary, and University of Pannonia |
| Main interests | Convex and discrete geometry |
| Notable ideas | Theorems on extremal properties of packings, contact numbers, coverings, illumination numbers, Voronoi diagrams, ball-polyhedra, molecules, and billiards |
| Website | http://contacts.ucalgary.ca/info/math/profiles/101-152921 |
Károly Bezdek (born May 28, 1955, in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian-Canadian mathematician. He is a professor as well as a Canada Research Chair of mathematics and the director of the Centre for Computational and Discrete Geometry at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Also he is a professor (on leave) of mathematics at the University of Pannonia in Veszprém, Hungary. His main research interests are in geometry in particular, in combinatorial, computational, convex, and discrete geometry. He has authored 3 books and more than 130 research papers. He is a founding Editor-in-Chief of the e-journal Contributions to Discrete Mathematics (CDM).