Curriculum Vitae of ákos G. Horváth  

 

 

 

Personal information:

 

Born in  July 19, 1960, Budapest (Hungary).

Married, 5 children, 2 grandchildren. 

 

Education and Scientific degrees

 

1979 - 1984

Studies in Mathematics at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

 1988                     Doctor of natural sciences in geometry at  Eötvös Loránd University

 1995                     Candidate of Mathematical Sciences in geometry at the Hungarian

                              Academy of Science (PhD 1995)

          

Honors  & prizes          

              

1983   Presentation of my results in the National Scientific Conference of  Students.

1985   2-nd prize for the results presented in the National Scientific Conference of  Students

1998   Won the Julius Strommer prize of the J.Strommer International Foundation of Geometry

1999   On the opinion of students won the “Theacher of the year” prize giving by  ERSTE.

 

 

Positions and Teaching experience:

      

1984-   Dept. of Geometry, Institute of Mathematics, Budapest University of Technology and  Economics

             

1984-1987   Teaching assistant

1987-1995    Assistant professor at BME at Dept. of Geometry

1995-            Associate professor

2007-            Head of the Department of Geometry

 

             

Teaching duties:

 - Courses for students:

        For mathematics majors: Geometry, Combinatorial geometry, Discrete  geometry,  Non-Euclidean geometry

        For engineer students: Mathematics, Geometry, Descriptive Geometry                                               

- Instructions of Phd and graduate students, Msc Thesis in Math.

1984-1989   Practice from  geometry of mathematics majors and chemistry majors students at  Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest        

1996-1997  Courses and practice from  Mathematical Analysis  and Linear Algebra at   Corvinus  University  of Budapest        

 

Professional Activities

 

1984-         Reviewer of Zentralblatt für Mathematik.

1996-        Member of the editorial board of Studies of the University of Zilina

2000-        Member of the curatorium of Rényi Kató fellowship

1996-        Associated member of the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of Hungarian  Academy of Sciences                                                                

 

Scholarship

 

 2000-2003  Bolyai János Scholarship, granted by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

 

 

Research areas

 

Geometry of numbers, discrete and convex geometry, non-euclidean and Minkowski geometry, geometric topology.

 

Lectures in conferences:

 

·         On the connection of bases of n-lattices, reduced by Minkowski and reduced by Hermite- PD’85, Budapest, 1986.

·         On the basis reduction problem -PD’86, Budapest, 1986.

·         On the nearest latticepoint problem."Geometrie und Anwend." 7.tagung, Holzhau Berlin DDR, 1989.

·         Densest ball packings by orbits of the 10 fixed point free Euclidean Space groups 6.Österreichisch-Ungarische Geometrietagung, Szombathely, 1990.

·         On the number of minima of N-lattices, Conference on Intuitive Geometry, Szeged, 1991.

·         On a special set-group of the finite geometry EG(n,2), Konstruktive Geometrie, Balatonföldvár, 1993.

·         On the Dirichlet-Voronoi cells of the unimodular lattices, Convex and Discrete geometry, Bydboszcz, Poland, 1994.

·         On the Dirichlet-Voronoi cell of lattices, International Conference on Intuitive Geometry, Budapest, 1995.

·         Dissections of a centrally symmetric hexagon, Konstruktive Geometrie,  Balatonföldvár, 1995.

·         Lower bounds of the coordinates of minimum vectors, 4th International Congress of Geometry, Thessaloniki, Greece. 1996.

·         Extremal polygons with minimal perimeter, 3th Geometry Festival, Budapest, 1996.

·         Bisectors in Minkowski normed spaces, Conference on Geometry, Vorrau, Austria, 2001.

·         On a conjecture of G.F. Voronoi, Konstruktive Geometrie,  Balatonföldvár 2001.

·         Some new observations on Parallelotopes, , Conference on Geometry, Vorrau, Austria, 2004.

·         On the shadow boundary of a centrally symmetric convex body, Conference on Geometry, Vorrau, Austria, 2007

 

Workshop, planar lectures, invited talks:

 

·         1th Geometry Festival, Budapest, Hungary 1990

·         Problems in lattice geometry, (invited talk), RWTH Aachen, Germany, 1994.

·         Generalization of a theorem of G.F.Voronoi, (invited talk) Osztrák-Magyar Workshop, Budapest, 1995.

·         Some problems in lattice geometry (plenar lecture) Konstruktive Geometrie, Balatonföldvár 1998.

·         Topological properties of the shadow boundary of a centrally symmetric convex body, Workshop on the 65-ith birthday of Ted Bisztriczky, 2007.

·         Semi-indefinite-inner-product and generalized Minkowski spaces, (invited talk),TU Wien, Institute für Diskrete Mathematik und Geometrie, 2009.

·         Semi-indefinite-inner-product and generalized Minkowski spaces, (invited talk),TU Chemnitz, Institute für Mathematik, 2010.

·         Pre-manifolds in Minkowski spaces,(invited talk),  TU Chemnitz, Institute für Mathematik, 2011.

 

 

Grants

 

    OTKA (National Research and Science Foundation)

 

·         1991-1994       OTKA  1615            team member

·         1993-1996       OTKA  T7351          team member

·         1996-1999       OTKA   T020498     team member

·         2002-2006       OTKA   T038397     team member

   DFG 

·         2010 I.4-2010 II.4 guest researcher in Germany

·         2011 III.11-2011 III.25 guest researcher in Germany