Václav Chvátal
| Václav Chvátal | |
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Václav Chvátal (2007)
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| Born |
20 July 1946 Prague |
| Nationality | Canadian, Czech |
| Fields | Mathematics, Computer Science, Operations Research |
| Institutions | Concordia University |
| Alma mater |
University of Waterloo Charles University |
| Doctoral advisor | Crispin Nash-Williams |
| Doctoral students |
David Avis (Stanford 1977) Bruce Reed (McGill 1986) |
| Notable awards |
Beale–Orchard-Hays Prize (2000) Docteur Honoris Causa, Université de la Méditerranné (2003) Frederick W. Lanchester Prize (2007) John von Neumann Theory Prize (2015) |
Václav (Vašek) Chvátal (Czech: [ˈvaːtslaf ˈxvaːtal] is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He has published extensively on topics in graph theory, combinatorics, and combinatorial optimization.
Chvátal was born in Prague in 1946 and educated in mathematics at Charles University in Prague, where he studied under the supervision of Zdeněk Hedrlín. He fled Czechoslovakia in 1968, three days after the Soviet invasion, and completed his Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, under the supervision of Crispin St. J. A. Nash-Williams, in the fall of 1970. Subsequently, he took positions at McGill University (1971 and 1978-1986), Stanford University (1972 and 1974-1977), the Université de Montréal (1972-1974 and 1977-1978), and Rutgers University (1986-2004) before returning to Montreal for the Canada Research Chair in Combinatorial Optimization at Concordia (2004-2011) and the Canada Research Chair in Discrete Mathematics (2011-2014) till his retirement.
Chvátal first learned of graph theory in 1964, on finding a book by Claude Berge in a Pilsen bookstore and much of his research involves graph theory:
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