László Lovász
research professor
Academic degree:
MTA full member
Research group:
DYNASNET Research department:
Combinatorics and applications Introduction
László Lovász (born March 9, 1948) is a Hungarian-American mathematician and professor emeritus at Eötvös Loránd University, best known for his work in combinatorics, for which he was awarded the 2021 Abel Prize jointly with Avi Wigderson.
He was the president of the International Mathematical Union from 2007 to 2010 and the president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 2014 to 2020.
In graph theory, Lovász's notable contributions include the proofs of Kneser's conjecture and the Lovász local lemma, as well as the formulation of the Erdős–Faber–Lovász conjecture. He is also one of the eponymous authors of the LLL lattice reduction algorithm.
Awards
2025
Academia Europaea
2023
Rényi Alfréd Matematikai Kutatóintézet
2021
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Köztársasági elnök / President of Hungary
IEEE Computer Society
2020
XXI. Század Társaság
2018
Barcelona City Council, Academia Europaea’s Barcelona Knowledge Hub
2017
BME/NJSZT
2012
Mathematical Programming Society, American Mathematical Society
2010
Inamori Foundation
2008
Magyarország Kormánya
Bolyai János Alapítvány
2007
Bolyai-díj Alapítvány
2001
European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), ACM SIGACT
1999
Wolf Foundation
1998
Magyar Köztársaság
Cseh Köztársaság Tudományos Akadémiája
1991
Bolyai János Matematikai Társulat
Academia Europaea
1981
IEEE
1979
Magyar Tudományos Akadémia
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
1969
Bolyai János Matematikai Társulat
Grants
2019.09.01. - 2025.08.31.