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Patrice Ossona de Mendez

Patrice Ossona de Mendez

French mathematician

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]

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