CURRICULUM VITAE

(06 April, 2003)

Name: Ferenc ORAVECZ

Date of birth: 25/08/1967

Place of birth: Budapest

Nationality: Hungarian

Education and degrees:

1986-1992 Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest

1992 M.Sc. in Physics

Master thesis: Stationary, cylindrical symmetric vacuum space times

1994-1998 Technical University of Budapest, Institute of Mathematics

Ph.D. fellowship in Applied Mathematics

1999 Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics

Ph.D. thesis: Random matrices and the free Poisson law

Advanced Courses:

1999 MAPHISTO Concentrated advanced course on Free Probability

2001 CIRM Summer School on Quantum Computers, Trento, Italy

2002 CIRM Advanced School on Random Matrices, Levico, Italy

2003 Nagoya

Work experience:

1993-1995 Physics teacher in ‘Vági István’ Secondary School, Budapest

1995-1998 Ph.D. Fellow at the Technical University of Budapest

1998-2002 Research Fellow at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, The

Hungarian Academy of Sciences

2001-2002 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Tel Aviv University, School

of Mathematics (Scholarship of the EEC Research Training

Network “Classical Analysis, Operator Theory, Geometry of

Banach Spaces, their interplay and their applications”, contract No.

HPRN-CT-00116-2000.)

2002-2004 JSPS (Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan), ID No. P02703.

Research interest: non commutative probability theory, combinatorics of probability theory, limit theorems, random matrices, zeros of algebraic and trigonometric polynomials, random algebraic and trigonometric polynomials, quantum chaos, spectral properties of adjacency matrices of graphs.

International Conference and seminar lectures:

1997 Rome¹ (Italy), Wroclaw² (Poland)

1998 Sigmundsburg¹ (Germany), Szeged¹ (Hungary)

1999 Odense³ (Denmark)

2000 Dhaka² (Bangladesh), Khatmandu² (Nepal), Göd¹ (Hungary)

2001 Wroclaw² (Poland), Cottbus¹ (Germany), Tel Aviv² (Israel)

2002 Bordeaux¹ (France), Biarritz¹ (France), Sendai² (Japan)

2003 Sendai¹ (Japan), Chungbuk² (Korea)

(1: conference talk; 2: seminar talk; 3: lecture at the Concentrated advanced course on Free Probability)

Teaching

Experience: Real analysis

Complex analysis

Vector calculus

Differential equations

Functional analysis

Honours:

1985 VII. Prize on the ‘National Competition in Chemistry for Secondary School Students’

1989 III. Prize on the ‘Ortvay International Problem Solving Competition in Physics’ (for undergraduate students)

1998 II Prize on the ‘Conference and Competition of the Hungarian Ph.D. Students in Mathematics’

Fellowships:

1995 Jozsef Varga Fellowship for Ph.D. studies

2001 János Bolyai Postdoctoral Research Fellowship of the Hungarian

Academy of Sciencees

2001 Scholarship of the EEC Research Training Network “Classical Analysis, Operator Theory, Geometry of Banach Spaces, their interplay and their applications”, contract No. HPRN-CT-00116-2000.

2002 JSPS (Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science) Postdoctoral Fellowship

Languages: English (advanced level)

Spanish (intermediate level)

French (intermediate level)