Vojtěch Rödl (born 1 April 1949
) is a
Czech American mathematician,
Samuel Candler Dobbs
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Early life and education
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Professor at
Emory University
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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
Charles University
Charles University (CUNI; , UK; ; ), or historically as the University of Prague (), is the largest university in the Czech Republic. It is one of the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, oldest universities in the world in conti ...
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
McMaster University
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,
University of Waterloo
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,
Bell Laboratories,
Microsoft,
Charles University
Charles University (CUNI; , UK; ; ), or historically as the University of Prague (), is the largest university in the Czech Republic. It is one of the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, oldest universities in the world in conti ...
, Mathematical Institute of the Czech Academy of Science,
Bielefeld University
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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
International Congress of Mathematicians
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The Fields Medals, the IMU Abacus Medal (known before ...
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
Erdős number
The Erdős number () describes the "collaborative distance" between mathematician Paul Erdős and another person, as measured by authorship of mathematical papers. The same principle has been applied in other fields where a particular individual ...
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 –
Humboldt Prize
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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 Praguerespectively)
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
*
2012 pbk reprint
See also
*
Packing in a hypergraph
*
Frankl–Rödl graph
In graph theory and computational complexity theory, a Frankl–Rödl graph is a graph defined by connecting pairs of vertices of a hypercube that are at a specified even distance from each other. The graphs of this type are parameterized by the d ...
*
Hypergraph removal lemma
In graph theory, the hypergraph removal lemma states that when a hypergraph contains few copies of a given sub-hypergraph, then all of the copies can be eliminated by removing a small number of hyperedges. It is a generalization of the graph remova ...
References
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20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Czech mathematicians
Combinatorialists
Charles University alumni
1949 births
Living people