Jaroslav Nešetřil
Jaroslav (Jarik) 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).
Jaroslav Nešetřil | |
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Jaroslav Nešetřil | |
| Born | March 13, 1946 |
| Nationality | Czech |
| Alma mater | Charles University, Prague |
| Awards | Silver medal of Union of Czechoslovak Mathematicians and Physicists (1977), State Prize of Czechoslovakia (jointly with V. Rödl) (1985), Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Alaska (2002), Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Bordeaux 1 (2009), 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 | |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions | Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University |
| Thesis | Structural Ramsey Theorems (1973) |
| Doctoral advisor | Aleš Pultr Gert Sabidussi |
| Doctoral students | Zdeněk Dvořák Jan Kratochvíl Robin Thomas |
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