Hall Medal Winner Shillewaert
Dr Jeroen
Schillewaert awarded the 2019 Hall Medal of the ICA
Hall Medals recognize extensive
quality research with substantial international impact by Fellows of
the ICA in mid-career.
Dr Schillewaert earned his PhD in 2009 from the University
of Ghent under Drs J Thas and L Storme.
He currently holds the rank of Senior Lecturer at University of
Auckland, in New Zealand, in the Department of Mathematics.
Jeroen Schillewaert has made significant contributions to a broad
range of topics in combinatorics and finite geometry, combining techniques from
extremal and probabilistic combinatorics, linear algebra, and group theory. He
is a world expert on buildings, the combinatorial and geometric structures
introduced by Jacques Tits. His work has applications in coding theory and
cryptography.
Dr. Schillewaert has published over thirty papers in
prestigious generalist journals and in the best specialist journals. He has
been awarded several prestigious fellowships, including an Oberwolfach Leibniz
Fellowship, a Marie Curie Fellowship, and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship.
He is frequently invited to speak at leading conferences, and to visit research
programmes and institutes. Dr. Schillewaert’s nominators describe his work as “very clever”, “remarkable and beautiful”, “highly substantial”, and “extremely
subtle”.
The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications is an
international scholarly society that was founded in 1990 by Ralph Stanton; the
ICA was established for the purpose of promoting the development of combinatorics
and of encouraging publications and conferences in combinatorics and its
applications.
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