Pavol Hell

Pavol Hell received his undergraduate education at Charles University in Prague during1964-68, his MSc from McMaster University in Hamilton in 1970, and his PhD from the Universite de Montreal in 1973, all in Mathematics. His PhD study was under the direction of Gert Sabidussi. He has been a faculty member at the University of British Columbia, at Rutgers University, and, since 1980, he has been at Simon Fraser University, where he was promoted to full professor in 1983. He has held a number of visiting positions – at Universite de Nice - Sophia Antipolis, Charles University Prague, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Universite de Bordeaux, National Sun Yat Sen University Taiwan, and elsewhere. He was elected Chair of the Executive Board of the SIAM Activity Group in Discrete Mathematics, 2006 – 2008, and during his term worked to establish the SIAM Denes Konig Prize in Discrete Mathematics. He has served on the NSERC Grant Selection Committee 331, Computing and Information Sciences – B, 2005 – 2008. He is a co- founder of the CanaDAM series of biennial Canadian conferences on Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics, and has served on many program, executive, and budget committees for the conference (as well as for other conferences). He has served on the editorial boards of several mainstream journals in discrete mathematics, and is currently the managing editor of the Journal of Graph Theory. Since 2008, he has also served on the BIRS Scientific Advisory Board. His research interests include graph algorithms, optimization, constraint satisfaction, and complexity, with emphasis on homomorphisms of graphs and digraphs.