DIRECTORS, FOUNDERS AND ADVISORS
North American Office
- Professor Kristina Garrett, Director
- Professor Kathryn Ziegler-Graham, Associate Director
- Deb Fleming, Administrator
- Budapest Semesters in Mathematics
- c/o St. Olaf College
- 1520 St. Olaf Avenue
- Northfield, MN 55057
- Phone: 1-507-786-3114
- Email: budapestsemesters@gmail.com
Program Founders
- Paul Erdős (1913–1996)
- The most prolific mathematician of all time and one of those few whose work defines 20th century mathematics
- Wolf Prize Laureate
- Member of the U.S. National Academy of Science
- Member of the Royal Society
- Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and 5 other National Academies of Science
- Honorary Doctor at 15 universities
- László Babai
- George and Elizabeth Yovovich Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Chicago
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Knuth Prize Laureate
- Honorary Doctor, Technical University, Budapest
- Gödel Prize Laureate
- Former Pólya Lecturer of the Mathematical Association of America
- László Lovász
- Professor of Mathematics, Eötvös University, Budapest
- Wolf Prize Laureate
- Kyoto Prize Laureate
- Past President of the International Mathematical Union
- President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Former member, Mathematics Research Group, Microsoft Laboratories
- Former Professor, Princeton University
- Former Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science,Yale University
- György Petruska
- Professor of Computer Science, Indiana University – Purdue University, Fort Wayne, IN
- Past Director of the Graduate Program in Computer Science at Indiana University – Purdue University, Fort Wayne
- Former Hungarian Director of BSM, Budapest
- Vera T. Sós
- Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Former Professor of Mathematics, Eötvös University
- Former Visiting Senior Researcher, AT&T Bell Laboratories
- Chair of College Mathematics Committee, Bolyai Mathematical Society, Budapest
Board of Directors
- Paul D. Humke
- Professor of Mathematics, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN and Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
- Dezső Miklós
- Professor of Mathematics, Renyi Institute, Budapest, Hungary
- Hungarian Program Director of Budapest Semesters in Mathematics
- György Petruska
- Professor of Computer Science, Indiana University, Fort Wayne, IN
- Professor of Mathematics, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary
- László Babai
- Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Deanna Haunsperger
- Professor of Mathematics, Chair of Mathematics, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
- Kiran Sridhara Kedlaya
- Professor of Mathematics, Stefan E. Warschawski Chair in Mathematics, University of California, San Diego, CA
- Bela Bajnok
- Professor of Mathematics, Alumni Chair in Mathematics, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA
- Tara Holm
- Professor of Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- Tamás Keleti
- Professor of Mathematics, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary
Special Advisors
- Paul Campbell
- Professor of Mathematics, Beloit College, Beloit, WI
- Governor, Mathematical Association of America, Wisconsin Section
- Associate Editor and Reviews Editor, Mathematics Magazine
- Editor of The UMAP Journal
- Telephone Number: 1-608-363-2007
- email: campbell@beloit.edu
- Joel Spencer
- Professor of Mathematics, N.Y.U.-Courant Institute, New York, NY
- Former Member of Putnam Questions Committee
- Former National Academy of Science and IREX Fellow to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Telephone Number: 1-212-998-3219
- email: spencer@cs.nyu.edu
