Jaroslav Nešetřil

Jaroslav Nešetřil
Jaroslav Nešetřil in 2006
Born (1946-03-13) 13 March 1946
NationalityCzech
Alma materCharles University, Prague
AwardsSilver medal of Union of Czechoslovak Mathematicians and Physicists (1977), State Prize of Czechoslovakia (jointly with V. Rödl) (1985), Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Alaska (2002), Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Bordeaux 1 (2009), Medal of Merit of Czech Republic (2010), Gold medal of Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University (2011), elected to Academia Europaea (2012), honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (since 2013), Donatio Universitatis Carolinae prize (2018).
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
InstitutionsFaculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University
Thesis Structural Ramsey Theorems  (1973)
Doctoral advisorAleš Pultr
Gert Sabidussi
Doctoral studentsZdeněk Dvořák
Jan Kratochvíl
Robin Thomas

Jaroslav Nešetřil (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjaroslaf ˈnɛʃɛtr̝̊ɪl]; born 13 March 1946) is a Czech mathematician. His research areas include combinatorics (structural combinatorics, Ramsey theory), graph theory (coloring problems, sparse structures), algebra (representation of structures, categories, homomorphisms), posets (diagram and dimension problems), computer science (complexity, NP-completeness). He works at Charles University in Prague.