Jorge Urrutia Galicia is a Mexican mathematician and computer scientist in the Institute of Mathematics of the

National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...

(UNAM). His research primarily concerns

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and

computational geometry Computational geometry is a branch of computer science devoted to the study of algorithms which can be stated in terms of geometry. Some purely geometrical problems arise out of the study of computational geometric algorithms, and such problems ar ...

Education and career

Urrutia earned his Ph.D. from the

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in 1980, under the supervision of

Ronald C. Read Ronald Cedric Read (19 December 1924 – 7 January 2019) was a British mathematician, latterly a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He published many books and papers, primarily on enumeration of Graph (discr ...

. He worked for many years at the

University of Ottawa The University of Ottawa (french: Université d'Ottawa), often referred to as uOttawa or U of O, is a bilingual public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on directly to the northeast of Downtown Ottawa ...

before moving to UNAM in 1999.Jorge Urrutia Galicia
, Mexican Conference on Discrete Mathematics and Computational Geometry, retrieved 2015-03-23. With Jörg-Rüdiger Sack in 1991, he was founding co-editor-in-chief of the

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'' Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications''.

Recognition

Urrutia is a member of the

Mexican Academy of Sciences The Mexican Academy of Sciences ''(Academia Mexicana de Ciencias)'' is a non-profit organization comprising over 1800 distinguished Mexican scientists, attached to various institutions in the country, as well as a number of eminent foreign coll ...

. The Mexican Conference on Discrete Mathematics and Computational Geometry, held in 2013 in

Oaxaca Oaxaca ( , also , , from nci, Huāxyacac ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca), is one of the 32 states that compose the political divisions of Mexico, Federative Entities of Mexico. It is ...

, was dedicated to Urrutia in honor of his 60th birthday.Mexican Conference on Discrete Mathematics and Computational Geometry
, retrieved 2015-03-23.

Selected publications

* *; preliminary version in ''Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 1996)'', * * *; preliminary version in ''Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Discrete Algorithms and Methods for Mobile Computing and Communications (DIAL-M 1999)'', *; preliminary version in ''Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Algorithms and Complexity (CIAC 2013)'',

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Urrutia Galicia, Jorge Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Mexican computer scientists 20th-century Mexican mathematicians 21st-century Mexican mathematicians Researchers in geometric algorithms University of Waterloo alumni Academic staff of the University of Ottawa Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico Members of the Mexican Academy of Sciences