Founders, Directors and Advisors

North American Office

Professor Tina Garrett, Director
Professor Kendra Killpatrick, Associate Director
Eileen Shimota, Program Administrator
Budapest Semesters in Mathematics
St. Olaf College
1520 St. Olaf Avenue
Northfield, MN 55057
Phone: 1-507-786-3114
Email: budapestsemesters@gmail.com
 
 

Program Founders

Paul Erdős (1913–1996)
The most prolific mathematician of all time and one of those few whose work defines 20th century mathematics
Wolf Prize laureate
Member of the National Academy of Science
Member of the Royal Society
Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and 5 other National Academies of Science
Honorary Doctor at 15 universities
László Babai
George and Elizabeth Yovovich Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Chicago
Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Honorary Doctor, Technical University, Budapest
Gödel Prize Laureate
Former Pólya Lecturer of the Mathematical Association of America
László Lovász
Head of the Mathematical Institute, Eötvös University, Budapest
Wolf Prize Laureate
Kyoto Prize Laureate
Past President of the International Mathematical Union
Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Former member, Mathematics Research Group, Microsoft Laboratories
Former Professor, Princeton University
Former Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science,Yale University
Győrgy Petruska
Professor of Computer Science, Indiana University - Purdue University, Fort Wayne, IN
Past Director of the Graduate Program in Computer Science at Indiana University - Purdue University, Fort Wayne
Former Hungarian Director of BSM, Budapest
Vera T. Sós
Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Former Professor of Mathematics, Eötvös University
Former Visiting Senior Researcher, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Chair of College Mathematics Committee, Bolyai Mathematical Society, Budapest

 

Board of Directors

Paul D. Humke
Professor of Mathematics, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN and Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
Dezső Miklós
Professor of Mathematics, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary
Győrgy Petruska
Professor of Computer Science, Indiana University, Fort Wayne, IN
Professor of Mathematics, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary
László Babai
Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

 

Special Advisors

Paul Campbell
Professor of Mathematics, Beloit College, Beloit, WI
Governor, Mathematical Association of America, Wisconsin Section
Associate Editor and Reviews Editor, Mathematics Magazine
Editor of The UMAP Journal
Telephone Number: 1-608-363-2007
email: campbell@beloit.edu
Joel Spencer
Professor of Mathematics, N.Y.U.-Courant Institute, New York, NY
Former Member of Putnam Questions Committee
Former National Academy of Science and IREX Fellow to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Telephone Number: 1-212-998-3219
email: spencer@cs.nyu.edu