Biography:Jorge Urrutia Galicia

From HandWiki
At LATIN 2016

Jorge Urrutia Galicia is a Mexican mathematician and computer scientist in the Institute of Mathematics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).[1] His research primarily concerns discrete and computational geometry.

Education and career

Urrutia earned his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo in 1980, under the supervision of Ronald C. Read.[2] He worked for many years at the University of Ottawa before moving to UNAM in 1999.[3] With Jörg-Rüdiger Sack in 1991, he was founding co-editor-in-chief of the academic journal Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications.[4]

Recognition

Urrutia is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.[5] The Mexican Conference on Discrete Mathematics and Computational Geometry, held in 2013 in Oaxaca, was dedicated to Urrutia in honor of his 60th birthday.[6]

Selected publications

References

  1. Faculty profile, UNAM, retrieved 2015-03-23.
  2. Jorge Urrutia at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. Jorge Urrutia Galicia , Mexican Conference on Discrete Mathematics and Computational Geometry, retrieved 2015-03-23.
  4. O’Rourke, Joseph (September 1993), "Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications", ACM Computing Reviews: Review #CR115947, http://www.computingreviews.com/review/review_review.cfm?review_id=115947 
  5. Mathematics section members, Mexican Academy of Sciences, 2021, https://www.amc.mx/amc/membresia/MATEMATICAS2021.pdf, retrieved 2022-11-18 
  6. Mexican Conference on Discrete Mathematics and Computational Geometry , retrieved 2015-03-23.

External links