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

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

• DSc, Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2021.
• Habilitation, University of Szeged, Hungary, 2013.
• PhD, 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
• Google Scholar
• ORCID
• arXiv

In the Fall semester of 2026 I teach the following courses:

• MN4141EA Topology and manifolds lecture (MSc), Thursday 8-10 (Rédei lecture hall).
• MN4141GA Topology and manifolds exercise class (MSc), Thursday 10-12 (Rédei lecture hall).
• Office hours: Thursday 2-3 pm.
Further information on course materials is available on CooSpace.

• 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:

• 23rd SGSIA: 23rd Workshop on Stochastic Geometry, Stereology and Image Analysis, Split, Croatia, June 8-12, 2026.
• CRM Workshop in Convex and Geometric Analysis, Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Montréal, Canada, December 9-11, 2026.
• Analytic and Combinatorial Aspects in Convex and Discrete Geometry, Scientific Session at the 2026 CMS Winter Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society, Montréal, Canada, December 11-14, 2026.
• Analytical and High Dimensional aspects of Discrete and Convex Geometry (27w5780), BIRS Workshop, Banff, Canada, March 14-19, 2027.

Past conferences:

• Recent progress in convex and discrete geometry, Scientific Session at the 2025 CMS 80th Anniversary Winter Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society, Toronto, Canada, December 5-8, 2025.
• 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).
• 2025 Szeged Workshop on Convexity, May 29-31, 2025, Bolyai Institute, University of Szeged, Hungary.
• 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.

2026

• Sylvester’s problem for ball-convex bodies, A boundless journey: Topology, Convexity, Geometry, and beyond on the occasion of Luis' 75th birthday, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, October 8-12, 2026.
• Sylvester's four-point problem for ball-convex bodies, Kerékjártó Seminar, Bolyai Institute, University of Szeged, September 29, 2026.
• The isominwidth inequality and its stability for ball convex bodies in planes of constant curvature , The Bremen Town Mathematicians in Convexity, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, September 7-11, 2026.
• Minimal area circmuscribed quadrangles around convex disks, Prague Conference on Convexity, Charles University, Prague, Chech Republic, August 24-28, 2026.
• Pál's isominwidth inequality and its stability for ball convex bodies in planes of constant curvature planes, Workshop on Structural Aspects of Convex Geometry, Technische Universitat Munich, Germany, July 20-22, 2026.
• Quantitative forms of geometric inequalities via measure transportation, Discrete, Convex, and Combinatorial Geometry Day, Pannon University, Veszprém, July 3, 2026.
• On Liakopoulos's dual Bollobás-Thomason inequality, Geometry Seminar, University of Murcia, Spain, May 27, 2026.
• Stability of geometric inequalities via the Brascamp-Lieb and Barthe's reverse Brascamp-Lieb inequalities, Geometric and functional inequalities and their stability, MTA III. osztály ülése, Rényi Institue, Budapest, May 20, 2026.
• Minimal area circumscribed quadrangles, Geometry seminar, Rényi Institute, Budapest, April 17, 2026.
• Minimal area circumscribed quadrangles, Kerékjártó Seminar, Bolyai Institute, University of Szeged, March 31, 2026.

2025

• On Liakopoulos's dual Bollobás--Thomason inequality, Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec, Centre de Recherches Mathématiques (CRM), Montréal, Canada, December 12, 2025.
• Series expansions for generalized random polygons, floating bodies and relative affine surface area, CMS Scientific session on Recent Progress in Convex and Discete Geometry, 2025 Winter Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS), Toronto, Canada, December 5-9, 2025.
• Central diagonal sections of Gaussian cubes, CMS Scientific session on Analytic-Geometric Synergies: Harmonic Analysis and Convexity, 2025 Winter Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS), Toronto, Canada, December 5-9, 2025.
• Series expansions for generalized random polygons, floating bodies and relative affine surface area, Oberseminar Geometrie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena, Germany, November 6, 2025.
• On Liakopoulos's dual Bollobás--Thomason inequality, Discrete, Convex and Combinatorial Geometry Fest, University of Calgary, Canada, July 14-18, 2025.
• Pairs of random points from a spherical shell, Convex and Discrete Geometry and Geometric Analysis Seminar (Privatissimum), Technische Universitat Wien, Austria, 2025. május 22.
• 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.

2024

• 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.

  2023

• 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.