Subject to: Jayme Szwarcfiter
Jayme Szwarcfiter is a Professor Emeritus at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and Visiting Professor at Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) in Brazil. His research interests are related to Graph Theory, Algorithms, Theory of Computation, and Discrete Mathematics. He has published more than 170 journal papers and several influential textbooks in these areas, and has supervised dozens of masters and doctoral students. Jayme is a Full Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, and he has received numerous national and international awards such as the Grand Cross for Scientific Merit, the Almirante \xc1lvaro Alberto prize, the Scientific Merit Prize awarded by the Brazilian Computer Society, and the Luis Federico Leloir prize, awarded by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation of Argentina. In addition, Jayme was a visiting professor in many countries like the US, England, Scotland, Argentina, Germany, France, Poland, Israel, Czech Republic, and Japan.