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SÁNDOR ZOLTÁN NÉMETH

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Personal Data

• Name: Sándor Zoltán Németh
• Date of birth: 10 June 1968
• Place of birth: Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• Marital status: Married
• Mailing address: School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham, Watson Building, Edgbaston, B15 2TT, Birmingham, United Kingdom
• Phone: +44-121-414-6404
• Fax: +44-121-414-3389
• E-mail: s [dot] nemeth [at] mat [dot] bham [dot] ac [dot] uk

Education

• 1975–1983: Báthory István primary-school, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• 1983–1987: Báthory István high-school, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• 1988–1993: Mathematics student, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer-Science, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• July 1993: Graduation as chief of promotion (Equivalent to MSc in Mathematics)
• 1995–1998: Ph.D. student in Mathematics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
• May 1999: Defense of Ph.D. dissertation, qualification Summa Cum Laude in Mathematics
• Title of Ph.D. thesis: Geometric aspects of Minty-Browder monotonicity

Employment Record

• 1993–1995: Teaching Assistant, Chair of Geometry, Babeș–Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• 1999–2005: Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Operations Research and Decision Systems, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 2001 autumn term: External Lecturer, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham
• 2002–2003: Honorary Research Fellow, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham
• From 1st September 2005: Lecturer; From 1st October 2013: Associate Professor, School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham

Scholarships and Awards

• 1989: 3rd prize at the university's Olympiad
• 1989: 2nd prize at the university's Scientific Student Conference
• 1992/93: Tempus scholarship, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.
• 1995–1998: Scholarship of the Hungarian Ministry of Education
• 1998–2001: Bolyai János fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 2000: Farkas Gyula prize for Applied Mathematics, Bolyai János Mathematical Society

Other achievements

• Associate Editor (Member of the Editorial Board) for the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications
• Stream organizer for the Mathematical Programming Stream of the EURO XXI Conference, Reykjavík, Iceland, July 2–5, 2006
• Session Chair for the Complementarity Problems and Equilibrium Session, Mathematical Programming Stream, EURO XXI Conference, Reykjavík, 2006
• Invited talk, EURO XXI Conference, Reykjavík, 2006 (G. Isac and S. Z. Németh)
• Stream organizer, EURO XXII Conference, Prague, July 8–11, 2007
• Session Chair, Variational Inequalities and Complementarity Problems Session, EURO XXII Conference, Prague, 2007
• Invited talk, EURO XXII Conference, Prague, 2007 (G. Isac and S. Z. Németh)
• Stream organizer, EURO XXIV Conference, Lisbon, July 11–14, 2010
• Session Chair, Complementarity Problems, Variational Inequalities and Equilibrium Session, EURO XXIV Conference, Lisbon, 2010
• Invited talk, EURO XXIV Conference, Lisbon, 2010 (S. Z. Németh)
• Stream organizer, EURO XXV Conference, Vilnius, Lithuania, July 8–11, 2012
• Stream organizer, EURO XXVI Conference, Rome, Italy, July 1–4, 2013
• Session Chair for the Complementarity Problems and Variational Inequalities 1 Session, EURO XXVI Conference, Rome, 2013
• Invited talk for the EURO XXVI Conference, Rome, Italy, July 1–4, 2013 (S. Z. Németh: Extended Lattice Operations and Isotone Projection Sets, Complementarity Problems and Variational Inequalities 1 Session, Mathematical Programming Stream)
• Stream organizer for the Mathematical Programming Stream of the EURO XXVII Conference, Glasgow, UK, July 12–15, 2015
• Session Chair for the Complementarity Problems, Variational Inequalities and Equilibrium Session, Mathematical Programming Stream, EURO XXVII Conference, Glasgow, UK, July 12–12, 2015
• Invited talk for the EURO XXVII Conference, Glasgow, UK, July 12–15, 2015 (S. Z. Németh: The extended Lorentz cone — a tool for solving equilibrium problems, Complementarity Problems, Variational Inequalities and Equilibrium Session, Mathematical Programming Stream)
• Stream organizer for the Mathematical Programming Stream of the EURO XXVIII Conference, Poznań, Poland, July 3–6, 2016
• Session Chair for the Complementarity Problems, Variational Inequalities and Equilibrium Session, Mathematical Programming Stream, EURO XXVIII Conference, Poznań, Poland, July 3–6, 2016
• Invited talk for the EURO XXVIII Conference, Poznań, Poland, July 3–6, 2016 (S. Z. Németh: Pursuing cones, convex sets and mappings with good order-preserving properties, Complementarity Problems, Feasibility and Equilibrium Session, Nonlinear Programming Stream)
• Stream organizer for the “Nonlinear Programming: Theory” Stream of the EURO XXIX Conference, Valencia, Spain, July 8–11, 2018
• Session Chair for the Convexity on Riemannian Manifolds, Feasibility and Equilibrium Session, “Nonlinear Programming: Theory” Stream, EURO XXIX Conference, Valencia, Spain, July 8–11, 2018
• Invited talk for the EURO XXIX Conference, Valencia, Spain, July 8–11, 2018 (S. Z. Németh: On the spherical convexity of quadratic functions, Convexity on Riemannian Manifolds, Feasibility and Equilibrium Session, “Nonlinear Programming: Theory” Stream)
• Stream organizer for the “Mathematical Programming” Stream of the EURO XXX Conference, Dublin, Ireland, June 23–26, 2019
• Session Chair for the “Optimization and Equilibrium Problems on Riemannian Manifolds” Session, “Mathematical Programming” Stream, EURO XXX Conference, Dublin, Ireland, June 23–26, 2019
• Invited talk for the EURO XXX Conference, Dublin, Ireland, June 23–26, 2019 (S. Z. Németh: On the spherical quasi-convexity of quadratic functions on spherical self-dual convex sets , Optimization and Equilibrium Problems on Riemannian Manifolds Session, Mathematical Programming Stream)
• Programme Committee member and organizer of two streams (“Complementarity Problems, Variational Inequalities and Related Topics” & “Optimization on Manifolds”) for the EUROpt 2023 Conference in Budapest, Hungary, August 23–25, 2023
• Session Chair of the “Convexity on Manifolds and Metric Spaces” Session, “Optimization on Manifolds” Stream, EUROpt 2023 Conference in Budapest, Hungary, August 23–25, 2023
• Invited talk for the EUROpt 2023 Conference in Budapest, Hungary, August 23–25, 2023 (S. Z. Németh: Convexity of non-homogeneous functions on the hyperbolic space, “Convexity on Manifolds and Metric Spaces” Session, “Optimization on Manifolds” Stream)
• Stream organizer for the “Optimization on Geodesic Metric Spaces: Smooth and Nonsmooth” Stream of the EURO XXXIII Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 30 – July 3, 2024
• Session Chair for the “Optimization on Manifolds” Session, “Optimization on Geodesic Metric Spaces: Smooth and Nonsmooth” Stream of the EURO XXXIII Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 30 – July 3, 2024
• Invited talk for the EURO XXXIII Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, June 30 – July 3, 2024 (S. Z. Németh: On projection mappings and the gradient projection method on hyperbolic space forms, “Optimization on Manifolds” Session, “Optimization on Geodesic Metric Spaces: Smooth and Nonsmooth” Stream)
• November 10–18, 2007 and March 18–24, 2002: Research visit and invited talk to the School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario
• December 6, 2007: Invited talk to the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Greenwich
• January 24, 2012: Invited talk to the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Kent
• Refereeing papers for several international journals (Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Journal of Global Optimization, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Acta Mathematica Hungarica, Studia Sci. Math. Hungarica, etc.)
• Invited talk to the AMS Sectional Meeting, Special Session on Optimization and Related Topics, University of Maryland, Baltimore MD, USA, March 29–30, 2014
• Invited talks to Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Federal University of Goiás, Brazil, August 2014
• Book reference for Springer (G. Isac: Leray–Schauder Type Alternatives, Complementarity Problems and Variational Inequalities, 2006)
• Book reference for Elsevier (I. V. Konnov: Equilibrium Models and Variational Inequalities, 2007)
• Book reference for Cambridge University Press (N. Boumal: An Introduction to Optimization on Smooth Manifolds, 2023)
• Several other contributed and invited talks at international conferences and workshops

Teaching Experience

• 1993/94–1994/95: Classes in Synthetic, Analytic, Projective and Differential Geometry, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj
• 1997/98: Classes in Descriptive, Absolute and Convex Geometry, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
• 1999/00–2000/01: Classes in Multicriteria Decision Software, Budapest University of Economic Sciences
• 2001/02: Lectures in Intelligent Tools, School of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Birmingham
• 2005/06–2006/07: Lectures in Nonlinear Programming, School of Mathematics, The University of Birmingham, U.K.
• 2005/06–2007/08: Lectures in Operations Management, School of Mathematics, The University of Birmingham, U.K.
• 2005/06–2007/08: Joint Lectures in Impact of Mathematics (20%), School of Mathematics, The University of Birmingham, U.K.
• 2006/07: Joint Lectures in Research Frontiers in Management Mathematics (50%), School of Mathematics, The University of Birmingham, U.K.
• 2008/09: Research Frontiers in Management Mathematics, School of Mathematics, The University of Birmingham, U.K.
• 2006/07–2007/08, 2009/10, 2011/12–2025/26: Heuristic Optimisation, School of Mathematics, The University of Birmingham, U.K.
• 2007/08–2010/11, 2012/13–2025/26: Multicriteria Decision Making, School of Mathematics, The University of Birmingham, U.K.
• 2009/10–2011/12: Mathematical Finance, School of Mathematics, The University of Birmingham, U.K.

Professional Experience

• Nonlinear Analysis (36 years)
• Differential Geometry (32 years)
• Optimisation (27 years)
• Multicriteria Decision Problems (27 years)
• Artificial Intelligence (25 years)
• Fluid Mechanics (1 year)

Participation in Projects

• The efficiency of the Tender for Developing the Economy (on behalf of the Hungarian Ministry of Economic Affairs), November 1999

Publications

• 1 book
• 4 book chapters
• 79 articles in Optimisation, Nonlinear Analysis, Multicriteria Decision Problems, Differential Geometry, Linear Algebra, Artificial Intelligence, Fluid Mechanics, Elementary Geometry
• 74 journal articles
• 2 periodical articles
• 3 conference proceeding articles

Language Skills

• Hungarian (native or bilingual proficiency)
• Romanian (native or bilingual proficiency)
• English (full professional proficiency)
• Portuguese (professional proficiency)
• Spanish (limited working proficiency)
• Italian (limited working proficiency)
• French (elementary proficiency)
• Catalan (elementary proficiency)

Research Interests

OPTIMISATION ON RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLDS

• Generalised convexity and generalised monotonicity
• Optimisation and equilibrium problems
• Singularities of vector fields
• Algorithms

ORDERED VECTOR SPACES

• Projection onto cones and applications (details). Highly recommended PhD topic — see items 1, 5 and 7 on this page. Contact me if you wish to do a PhD. Applications: regression, image reconstruction, pattern recognition, portfolio optimisation, quadratic programming, complementarity, non-negative solutions of linear systems etc.
• Latticially ordered Euclidean and Hilbert spaces

EQUILIBRIUM SYSTEMS

• Applications of nonlinear analysis, topological methods and ordered vector spaces to fixed point theorems, surjectivity theorems, nonlinear spectral theory, variational inequalities, nonlinear complementarity problems and integral equations

MULTICRITERIA DECISION PROBLEMS

• Stability of decision models
• global optimisation methods
• genetic programming methods
• Axiomatic foundation

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

• Genetic programming
• diversity of genetic programs
• limitation of code growth

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