Odile Favaron

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Odile Zink-Favaron (born May 3, 1938) [1] is a French mathematician known for her research in graph theory, including work on well-covered graphs, factor-critical graphs, spectral graph theory, Hamiltonian decomposition, and dominating sets. She is retired from the Laboratory for Computer Science (LRI) at the University of Paris-Sud. [2]

Favaron earned a doctorate at Paris-Sud University in 1986. Her dissertation, Stabilité, domination, irrédondance et autres paramètres de graphes [ Independence, domination, irredundance, and other parameters of graphs ], was supervised by Jean-Claude Bermond. [3]

Personal life

Her father was poet and professor Georges Zink  [ fr ]. Michel Zink and Anne Zink are her siblings. [4]

References

  1. Birth date from French National Library catalog entry, retrieved 2019-10-04
  2. Odile Favaron, Laboratory for Computer Science, University of Paris-Sud, retrieved 2019-10-04
  3. Odile Favaron at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Soirée hommage au poète Georges Zink (in French), 2010-04-23