CV of
András Pluhár
Personal Dates
Name: András Sándor Pluhár
Date and place of birth: 1963, Gyula, Hungary
Address: Hópárduc str, Szeged
H-6725, Hungary.
Family: Divorced.
Children: András Miklós Pluhár (2005)
Education
1982-88 Attended József Attila University, Szeged,
Hungary.
Thesis advisor: Zoltán Blázsik. Thesis
title: Interval graphs, M.S. from Mathematics in 1988
1990-94 Graduate studies in Operations Research, Rutgers,
the State University of New Jersey. Ph.D. from Rutgers in 1994.
Dissertation advisor: Dr. József Beck .
Dissertation title: Positional Games on the Infinite Chessboard
Research Interest: Combinatorics, Games, Graph Theory and
Combinatorial Optimization
Honors, Awards
1985 3rd prize in the F. Riesz math competion for
undergraduates.
1986 Honorary mention in M. Schweitzer mathematical
competition.
1988 "Achievement prize" from József Attila
University, 2nd prize.
1990-93 "Excellence fellowship" from Rutgers
University, spent at RUTCOR.
1995 "Excellent teaching" prize from
József Attila University.
1995 Black belt in Chang Moo Kwan Taekwon-do.
1995 Bilateral Intergovermental S and T Cooperation
between Italy and Hungary I-14/95. One week stay and lecture at
University of Bologna.
1996 Two weeks of research at Technical University of
Graz, supported by the Austrian-Hungarian Action Fund, no. 20u2.
1998 A 3-month fellowship from the Austrian-Hungarian
Action Fund, spent at the Math Dept of the Technical University of
Graz.
1998 Head of research in the three-year OTKA project
no. F026049, "Representation of discrete structures."
(successfully ended in 2001)
2001 Delivering a two-week compact course in
Combinatorial Games at the Technical University of Graz,
sponsored by the project ERASMUS.
2001 Participant of the four-year OTKA project
no. T034475, "Special graph classes" (head Dr. Péter
Hajnal).
2002 Won the Békésy fellowship for
3 years.
2002-2003 IQN project, a 3 month graduate lecture in
Drezden, title: Probabilistic Models .
2005 Participant of the four-year OTKA project
no. T049398 , "Graphs, geometry, randomness and
algorithms " (head Dr.
Péter
Hajnal).
2009 Participant of the four-year OTKA project
no. K76099, " Combinatorics, algorithms and randomness " (head
Dr.
Péter Hajnal).
Work Experience
2007- Associate Professor at the Dept of Comp Sci,
University of Szeged
1998- Adjunct Professor at the Dept of Comp Sci,
University of Szeged
1994-98 Assistant Professor at the Dept of Comp Sci,
University of Szeged
1998-2001 Part time job at the research group of Cygron Ltd,
as a project leader
1990-94 Teaching Assistant, Rutgers, the State
University of NJ
1988-90 Research Assistant, Hungarian Academy of
Sciences
Teaching Experience
(in semesters, at Rutgers and József Attila University)
Numerical Analysis (4), Calculus (2), Applied Graph Theory (1), Algorithms and
Data Structures (9), Linear Programming (7), Operations Research (4)
Combinatorial Games (5), Logic and Program
Verification (1), Linear Algebra Method in Combinatorics (3),
Probabilistic Method (2), Algorithmic Graph Theory (1), Mathematics
of Markets (1).
Szeged, 6th of February, 2009.