Vojtěch Rödl (born 1 April 1949) is a Czech American mathematician,

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Professor at

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. He is noted for his contributions mainly to combinatorics having authored hundreds of research papers.

Academic Background

Rödl obtained his PhD from the School of Mathematics and Physics at

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in 1976. His supervisor was Zdeněk Hedrlín. From 1973 to 1987 he lectured at the School of Nuclear and Physical Engineering at the

Czech Technical University in Prague Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) () is one of the largest universities in the Czech Republic with 8 faculties, and is one of the oldest institutes of technology in Central Europe. It is also the oldest non-military technical universi ...

. He has held visiting positions in various institutions including

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, Bell Laboratories, Microsoft,

, Mathematical Institute of the Czech Academy of Science,

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, as well as at Humboldt University in Berlin. He serves on the editorial board of several international journals. He has given lectures at many conferences, including plenary address in 2014 at the

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in Seoul and an invited lecture in 1990 at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Kyoto. He has several joint publications with Paul Erdős, and so has

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one.

Research

Rödl has published more than four hundred papers, mostly in combinatorics. He is mostly known for his contributions to Ramsey theory, extremal problems, and probabilistic combinatorics.

Awards

* 1977 – Silver medal of the Union of Czechoslovak Mathematicians and Physicists * 1985 – Czechoslovak State prize (jointly with Nesetril) * 1996 –

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* 2005 – Felber Medal (Czech Technical University) * 2011 �
Bolzano Medal
(Czech Academy of Science) * 2012 – Polya Prize (jointly with M.Schacht) * 2013 �
Neuron Prize
* 2003 and 2017 Honorary doctorate ( Technical University of Liberec an
Czech Technical University Prague
respectively) In 1983 with P. Frankl he solved
1000$ problem of Paul Erdős
Since 2010 Rödl has been
Foreign Fellow of the Czech Learned Society

Books

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2012 pbk reprint

References

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