Patrice Ossona de Mendez

Patrice Ossona de Mendez
Patrice Ossona de Mendez
Born (1966-12-13) 13 December 1966 (age 58)
NationalityFrench
Alma materEHESS, Paris
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
InstitutionsCentre national de la recherche scientifique
Doctoral advisorHubert de Fraysseix, Pierre Rosenstiehl

Patrice Ossona de Mendez is a French mathematician specializing in topological graph theory who works as a researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris.[1] He is editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Combinatorics, a position he has held since 2009.[1][2]

Education and career

Ossona de Mendez was born on 13 December 1966 in Paris.[1] He represented France in the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1985, earning a bronze medal there.[3] He studied at the École Normale Supérieure from 1986 until 1990, and completed his Ph.D. in 1994 from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.[1] His dissertation, jointly supervised by Rosenstiehl and Hubert de Fraysseix, concerned bipolar orientations of graphs.[4]

He has worked at CNRS since 1995, and earned a habilitation in 2009 from the University of Bordeaux 1.[1]

Book

With Jaroslav Nešetřil, he is the author of the book Sparsity: Graphs, Structures, and Algorithms (Algorithms and Combinatorics 28, Springer, 2012), concerning the properties and applications of different types of sparse graph.[5][6] This book was included in ACM Computing Reviews list of Notable Books and Articles of 2012.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Curriculum vitae: Patrice Ossona de Mendez (PDF), retrieved 2015-09-20.
  2. ^ European Journal of Combinatorics Editorial Board, Elsevier, retrieved 2015-09-20.
  3. ^ Patrice Ossona de Mendez: Individual Ranking, International Mathematical Olympiad, retrieved 2015-09-20.
  4. ^ Patrice Ossona de Mendez at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ Review of Sparsity by József Balogh, Mathematical Reviews, MR2920058.
  6. ^ Review of Sparsity by Andre Maximo (October 2012), ACM Computing Reviews, CR140602.
  7. ^ ACM Computing Reviews - Notable Computing Books and Articles of 2012, ACM Computing Reviews website. Accessed June 29, 2013