Balázs Szegedy is a Hungarian mathematician whose research concerns

combinatorics Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and as an end to obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures. It is closely related to many other areas of mathematics and has many ...

and

graph theory In mathematics and computer science, graph theory is the study of ''graph (discrete mathematics), graphs'', which are mathematical structures used to model pairwise relations between objects. A graph in this context is made up of ''Vertex (graph ...

. Szegedy earned a master's degree in 1998 and a PhD in 2003 from

Eötvös Loránd University Eötvös Loránd University (, ELTE, also known as ''University of Budapest'') is a Hungarian public research university based in Budapest. Founded in 1635, ELTE is one of the largest and most prestigious public higher education institutions in ...

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.Curriculum vitae
Alfred Rényi Institute, retrieved 2015-03-19. His dissertation, supervised by Péter Pál Pálfy, was about

group theory In abstract algebra, group theory studies the algebraic structures known as group (mathematics), groups. The concept of a group is central to abstract algebra: other well-known algebraic structures, such as ring (mathematics), rings, field ( ...

and was entitled "On the Sylow and Borel subgroups of classical groups". After temporary positions at the

Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics The Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics () is the research institute in mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. It was created in 1950 by Alfréd Rényi, who directed it until his death. Since its creation, the institute has been th ...

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, and the

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, he joined the faculty of the

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in 2006. He returned to the Rényi Institute in 2013. Szegedy won the

Géza Grünwald Géza Grünwald (October 18, 1910, Budapest – September 7, 1943) was a Hungarian mathematician of Jewish heritage who worked on analysis. He died in the Holocaust. See also * Grunwald–Wang theorem In algebraic number theory, the Grunwald– ...

Commemorative Prize for young researchers of the

János Bolyai Mathematical Society The János Bolyai Mathematical Society (Bolyai János Matematikai Társulat, BJMT) is the Hungarian mathematical society, named after János Bolyai, a 19th-century Hungarian mathematician, a co-discoverer of non-Euclidean geometry. It is the profe ...

in 2002. He was one of two winners of the 2009

European Prize in Combinatorics The European Prize in Combinatorics is a prize for research in combinatorics, a mathematical discipline, which is awarded biennially at Eurocomb, the European conference on combinatorics, graph theory, and applications.. The prize was first awarde ...

, and in 2010 he became a

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. With

László Lovász László Lovász (; born March 9, 1948) is a Hungarian mathematician and professor emeritus at Eötvös Loránd University, best known for his work in combinatorics, for which he was awarded the 2021 Abel Prize jointly with Avi Wigderson. He ...

, he was one of the winners of the 2012

Fulkerson Prize The Fulkerson Prize for outstanding papers in the area of discrete mathematics is sponsored jointly by the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Up to three awards of $1,500 each are presented at e ...

, for their joint work on graph limits. He was the 2013 winner of the

Coxeter–James Prize The Coxeter-James Prize is a mathematics award given by the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) to recognize outstanding contributions to mathematics by young mathematicians in Canada. First presented in 1978, the prize is named after two renowned ...

of the

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.University of Toronto Professor recognized for research excellence: Balázs Szegedy to receive 2013 CMS Coxeter–James prize
Canadian Mathematical Society, April 15, 2013, retrieved 2015-03-19. In 2018, Szegedy was an invited speaker at the

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the IMU Abacus Medal (known before ...

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