Bojan Mohar

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Bojan Mohar
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Mohar at Oberwolfach in 2022
Born(1956-09-21)September 21, 1956
Alma mater University of Ljubljana (PhD, 1986)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Institutions
Thesis Grafi v kombinatorični topologiji (Graphs in combinatorial topology)  (1986)
Doctoral advisor Tomaž Pisanski
Website https://www.sfu.ca/~mohar/

Bojan Mohar (born September 21, 1956) is a Slovenian and Canadian mathematician, working in graph theory. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Ljubljana [1] and the holder of a Canada Research Chair in graph theory at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. [2]

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Education

Mohar received his PhD from the University of Ljubljana in 1986, under the supervision of Tomo Pisanski. [3]

Research

Mohar's research concerns topological graph theory, algebraic graph theory, graph minors, and graph coloring. [2]

With Carsten Thomassen he is the co-author of the book Graphs on Surfaces (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001).

Books

Awards and honors

Mohar was a Fulbright visiting scholar at Ohio State University in 1988, and won the Boris Kidrič prize of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia in 1990. [4] He has been a member of the Slovenian Academy of Engineering since 1999. [4] He was named a SIAM Fellow in 2018. [5] He was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in the 2020 Class, for "contributions to topological graph theory, including the theory of graph embedding algorithms, graph coloring and crossing numbers, and for service to the profession". [6]

References

  1. ↑ "Staff Directory: Department of Mathematics". www.fmf.uni-lj.si. Archived from the original on 2020-10-27. Retrieved 2025-07-15.
  2. 1 2 Government of Canada, Industry Canada, Canada Research Chairs. "Canada Research Chairs". www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 2021-07-11. Retrieved 2025-07-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ↑ Bojan Mohar at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. 1 2 "IAS - Inženirska akademija Slovenije | Predstavitev rednih članov". www.ias.si (in Slovenian). Archived from the original on 2018-01-14. Retrieved 2025-07-15.
  5. ↑ "SIAM Announces Class of 2018 Fellows", SIAM News, March 29, 2018
  6. ↑ 2020 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society , retrieved 2019-11-03
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