Sandi Klavžar (born 5 February 1962) is a Slovenian mathematician working in the area of
graph theory
In mathematics, graph theory is the study of ''graphs'', which are mathematical structures used to model pairwise relations between objects. A graph in this context is made up of '' vertices'' (also called ''nodes'' or ''points'') which are conne ...
and its applications. He is a professor of mathematics at the
University of Ljubljana
The University of Ljubljana ( sl, Univerza v Ljubljani, , la, Universitas Labacensis), often referred to as UL, is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia. It has approximately 39,000 enrolled students.
History Beginnings
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Education
Klavžar received his Ph.D. from the University of Ljubljana in 1990, under the supervision of
Wilfried Imrich and
Tomaž Pisanski
Tomaž (Tomo) Pisanski (born 24 May 1949 in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, which is now in Slovenia) is a Slovenian mathematician working mainly in discrete mathematics and graph theory. He is considered by many Slovenian mathematicians to be the "father ...
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Research
Klavžar's research concerns graph products, metric graph theory, chemical graph theory, graph domination, and the Tower of Hanoi. Together with
Wilfried Imrich and Richard Hammack, he is the author of the book Handbook of Product Graphs (CRC Press, 2011). Together with Andreas M. Hinz, Uroš Milutinović, and Ciril Petr, he is the author of the book ''
The Tower of Hanoi – Myths and Maths'' (Springer, Basel, 2013).
Awards and honors
In 2007, Klavžar received the Zois award for exceptional contributions to science and mathematics.
References
External links
Home page at the University of Ljubljana
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Living people
20th-century Slovenian mathematicians
Graph theorists
Mathematical chemistry
University of Ljubljana alumni
Academic staff of the University of Ljubljana
1962 births
21st-century Slovenian mathematicians