Imre Bárány#
| Membership Number: | 5683 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1978 October to present, Renyi Institute, research professor, earlier research fellow
- 1998 September to 2021 January, University College London, Astor Professor of Pure Mathematics, (half position)
- 1989 September to 1991 June, Yale University, Cowles Foundation, visiting researcher
- 2003 August to December, MSRI, visiting professor
- 2004 January to July, Microsoft Research, Redmond, visiting researcher
- 2017 August to December, MSRI, visiting professor
Fields of Scholarship
- Applications of algebraic topology in discrete geomtry and combinatorics
- Asymptotic behavior of random polytopes
- Discrete geometry, combinatorial properties of finite point sets in d-space
- Random points and lattice points in convex bodies
- Helly and Caratheodory type theorems
- Combinatorial properties of convex sets
Honours and Awards
- 1988 Renyi Prize
- 1998 Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Invited speaker at ICM 2002, Beijing
- 2010 Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2011 Recipient of the ERC Advanced Research Grant, title "Discrete and Convex Geometry"
- 2011 Astor Professor of Pure Mathematics at University College London
- 2012 Fellow of the AMS since
- 2016 Szechenyi Prize
