Prof. László Csirmaz, Ph.D.

Publications

A list of selected publications is available on Google Scholar or on researchgate.net.

Degrees:

• Honorary Professor (“Egyetemi Magántanár”), ELTE, 2007
• Habilitation at University of Debrecen, 2006
• Candidate of Mathematical Sciences: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1981 (a PhD equivalent degree)
• Master’s degree in Mathematics: E ̈otv ̈os Lor ́and University of Budapest, 1975

Employment:

• Oct. 2019 – present: UTIA Senior Researcher
• 2001 – 2018: Part-time Professor at the University of Debrecen, Faculty of Informatics
• 1996 – present: Central European University, Chair of Computer and Statistics Center 1990– present Professor at Eötvös Loránd University Computer Science Department
• 1975 – present: Mathematical Research Institute of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Department of Set Theory and Mathematical Logic, Senior Researcher
• 1990/91: Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., Computer Science Department, Visiting Professor
• 1988/89: University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., Computer Science Department, Visiting Professor
• 1986/87: McGill University, Department of Mathematics, Montreal, Canada, Visiting Professor

Short Term Visiting Positions:

• 1996 May: Research Center for Discrete Mathematics and Computer Science (DIMACS) at Rutgers, a research fellow
• 1994 October: DIMACS at Rutgers, a research fellow

Teaching activities

I deliver lectures on Theoretical Cryptography, Information Theory, Formal Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics at the Central European University; on Mathematical Logic, and on Set Theory at the Eötvös University; on Cryptography, Mathematical Logic, and Artificial Intelligence at the Universaty of Debrecen.

Others

For more than fifteen years I was a member and later Chair of the Editorial Board of the famous Hungarian “Mathematical Journal for Secondary Schools.” I take part in organizing various mathematical competitions in Hungary, including the National Student Competition in Mathematics and the famous Kürchák competition.