Ferenc Fodor's Web Page

Office:

Room 113.b
Bolyai Building

Mailing Address:

Bolyai Institute
University of Szeged
Aradi vértanúk tere 1.
6720 Szeged, Hungary

Phone:

+36 62 544073

Email:

fodorf [at] math.u-szeged.hu

• Head, Bolyai Institute, University of Szeged, Hungary.
• Professor and Chair, Department of Geometry, Bolyai Institute, University of Szeged, Hungary.
• Adjunct Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary, Canada.

• Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2021.
• Habilitation, University of Szeged, Hungary, 2013.
• Ph.D., Auburn University, U.S.A., 1999.
• Diploma (MSc) in Mathematics, JATE University, Hungary, 1995.

• Convex and Discrete Geometry
• Stochastic Geometry
• Asymptotic Geometric Analysis
• Polytopes

• List of publications
• List of citations from the database of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• My Google Scholar profile

• Scientific Prize of the Faculty of Sciences and Informatics, University of Szeged, 2014.
• János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2011-2014.
• Bolyai Memorial Certificate, 2011
• János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2007-2010.
• György Békésy Postdoctoral Fellowship, Hungarian Ministry of Education, 2002-2004.
• Baskervill Fellowship, Auburn University, U.S.A., 1998-1999.
• Graduate Dean's Award for Excellence, U.S.A., 1999.

Current conferences:

• 2025 Szeged Workshop on Convexity, May 29-31, 2025, Bolyai Institute, University of Szeged, Hungary.
• Discrete, Convex and Combinatorial Geometry Fest, July 14-18, 2025, University of Calgary, Canada (conference web page on the site of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences).

Past conferences:

• AMS Special Session on Discrete Geometry and Geometric Optimization, 2023 Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Meeting #1190, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, U.S.A., October 13-15, 2023.
• Scientific Session on Interaction Of Discrete and Convex Geometry with Analysis and Combinatorics, 2023 Canadian Mathematical Society Summer Meeting, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, June 2-5, 2023.
• 2022 Szeged Workshop on Convexity, Bolyai Institute, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary, May, 27-28, 2022.
• Scientific Session on Interplay between Discrete Geometry, Analysis and Combinatorics, 2019 Canadian Mathematical Society Winter Meeting, Toronto, ON, Canada, December 6-9, 2019.
• 2019 Szeged Workshop on Convexity, April 5-6, 2019, Bolyai Institute, University of Szeged, Hungary.
• AMS Special Session on Discrete and Convex Geometry, AMS Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Meeting #1146, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, U.S.A., March 15-17, 2019.
• Discrete Geometry Fest 2017, MTA Rényi Institute, Budapest, Hungary, May 15-19, 2017.
• AMS Special Session on Discrete Geometry and Convexity (Dedicated to András Bezdek on the occasion of his 60th birthday), 2017 Joint Mathematics Meetings, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A., January 4-7, 2017.
• 2015 Szeged Workshop on Convexity, November 13-14, 2015, Bolyai Institute, University of Szeged, Hungary.
• Szeged Workshop in Convex and Discrete Geometry, Bolyai Institute, University of Szeged, Hungary, 2012.
• Intuitive Geometry Day in Calgary, University of Calgary, Canada, 2007.
• Intuitive Geometry Workshop, Banff International Research Station, Canada, 2007.
• Geometry Fest in Celebration of Ted Bisztriczky's 60th Birthday, MTA Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary, 2007.
• Symmetry in Geometry special session, Summer Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society, Calgary, Canada, 2006.
• Calgary Workshop in Discrete Geometry, University of Calgary, Canada, 2005.

• Pairs of random points from a shell, Geometry seminar, Rényi Institute, Budapest, Hungary, April 4, 2025.
• Stability of geometric inequalites through optimal transport , Trends and developments in convex analysis, University of Seville, Seville, Spain, March 13-14, 2025.
• Stability of mean width inequalities for origin-symmetric convex bodies, Convex and Discrete Geometry Seminar, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain, March 10, 2025.
• Stability of mean width inequalities, Scientific Session on Interplay between Discrete Geometry, Convexity, and Combinatorics, 2024 Winter Meeting of the Canadian Mathematzical Society, Richmond, Canada, November 29-December 2, 2024.
• Points from a spherical shell, Analysis Seminar Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, September 24-27, 2024.
• Stability of geometric inequalities via measure transportation, MS: Asymptotic Convex Analysis, 9th European Congress of Mathematics, Seville, Spain, July 15-19, 2024.
• Stability of inequalities concerning the mean width, Convex Geometry in Florence, Universitá degli Studi di Firenze, Italy, June 12-14, 2024.
• Approximations by Intersections of Congruent Convex Sets, AMS Special Session on Discrete Geometry and Geometric Optimization, 2023 Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Meeting #1190, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, U.S.A., October 13-15, 2023.
• Strengthened inequalities for the mean width and the l-norm, Conference on Convex Geometry and Geometric Probability, Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Austria, September 25-29, 2023.
• Central limit theorems and floating bodies, CMO Workshop on Interplay between Geometric Analysis and Discrete Geometry (23w5105), CMO, Oaxaca, Mexico, June 25-30, 2023.
• A central limit theorem for the area of random disc-polygons, Scientific Session on Interplay Between Analysis and Convexity, 2023 Canadian Mathematical Society Summer Meeting, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, June 2-5, 2023.
• Asymptotic expansions for generalized random polygons, Scientific Session on Interaction Of Discrete and Convex Geometry with Analysis and Combinatorics, 2023 Canadian Mathematical Society Summer Meeting, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, June 2-5, 2023.
• Asymptotic expansions for generalized random polygons, Geometry Seminar, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budpaest, Hungary, May 5, 2023.
• Asymptotic properties of random disc-polygons, Seminario di Analisi Matematica, University of Florence, Italy, April 21, 2023.
• Series expansions for random disc-polygons, Kerékjártó Seminar, Department of Geometry, Bolyai Institute, University of Szeged, Hungary, March 23, 2023.
• Random approximation in generalized convexity, Stochastic Geometry Seminar, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, December 9, 2022.
• Stein's method and its applications to random polytopes and their generalizations, Kerékjártó Seminar, Department of Geometry, Bolyai Institute, University of Szeged, Hungary, November 10, 2022.
• Approximations by generalized random polytopes, Mini-Symposium on Geometric Probability and Valuation Theory, TU Wien, Austria, April 20-22, 2022.
• Strengthened inequalities for the mean width, 8th European Congress of Mathematics, Minisymposium on Convex bodies - approximation and sections, Portoroz, Slovenia, 20-26 June, 2021.
• The volume of central diagonal sections of the n-cube, Current trends in Convex Geometry, University of Murcia, Spain, March 15-19, 2021
• Central diagonal sections of the n-cube, AMS Special Session on Convexity and Probability in High Dimensions, 2020 Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, U.S.A., October 10-11, 2020
• Stability of inequalities for the mean width and the $\ell$-norm, Kerékjártó seminar, University of Szeged, Hungary, October 1, 2020
• Strengthened inequalities for the mean width and the $\ell$-norm, Online Asymptotic Geometric Analysis Seminar, Georgia Tech, GA, U.S.A., September 19, 2020
• The volume of central diagonal sections of the n-cube, Geometry seminar (online), Rényi Institute, Budapest, Hungary, May 15, 2020.
• Stability of some geometric inequalities via measure transportation, Salzburg Mathematics Colloquium, University of Salzburg, Austria, January 16, 2020.
• The L_p dual Minkowski problem, International Symposium on Discrete Geometry and Convexity, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, China, August 25-31, 2019.
• Random parallelotopes in isotropic vector systems, Discrete Geometry Days 2, Budapest, Hungary, July 9--12.
• Dowker type theorems (Dowker-típusú tételek), Geometry Seminar, MTA Rényi Institute, May 3, 2019
• On the L_p dual Minkowski problem, Colloquium talk, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University, U.S.A.
• Perimeter approximation of convex discs in the hyperbolic plane and on the sphere, AMS Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Meeting #1146, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, March 15-17, 2019.
• On the L_p dual Minkowski problem, Universidad de Murcia, Spain, 2019.01.24.
• On the L_p version of the dual Minkowski-problem, Geometry seminar, University of Debrecen, Hungary, November 30, 2018.
• The regularity of the solution of the L_p dual Minkowski problem, Differential Equations Seminar and Kerékjártó Béla Seminar (joint), Bolyai Institute, University of Szeged, Hungary, October 11, 2019.
• Stochastic geometry seminar, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, June 5, 2018.
• BME Geometry seminar, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary, May 8, 2018.
• Geometry seminar (Privatissimum), Technische Universitat Wien, Austria, April 12, 2018.
• Stochastics seminar, University of Szeged, Hungary, March 21, 2018.