Research

Professor Stepan A. Tersian (University of Rousse, Bulgaria) will visit our department during the period April 30 - May 2, 2012. He will give a lecture On homoclinic solutions of a semilinear p-Laplacian difference equation with periodic coefficients on May 2, 2012, 10:00 a.m., in our regular classroom 310/A (1051 Budapest, Zrinyi u. 14, Third Floor).

Our PhD Candidate Kostadinka LAPKOVA (CEU Mathematics Dept) will defend her dissertation, entitled "Class Number Problems for Quadratic Fields", on May 23, 2012, 1:00 pm (CEU, 1051 Budapest, Zrinyi u. 14, Third Floor, Room 310/A). 

Our PhD Candidate Ferenc SZÖLLŐSI (CEU Mathematics Dept) will defend his dissertation, entitled Construction, classification and parametrization of complex Hadamard matrices, on April 10, 2012, 10:00 a.m., in our regular classroom 310/A (1051 Budapest, Zrinyi u. 14, Third Floor).

DPP faculty member Andreas Goldthau published a new book with Palgrave Macmillan, coedited with Caroline Kuzemko (Warwick), Andrei Belyi (HSE) and Michael Keating (Richmond).

Professor Mihai MIHAILESCU (University of Craiova, Romania, CEU PhD Alumnus) will visit our department during the period March 9-15, 2012.

On 15th February 2012, the Department of Environmental Science & Policy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation (CIC), which will promote biodiversity conservation and sustainable use of wildlife through the joint work of CIC and the Department. After brief talks by Prof. Brandon Anthony (CEU), Mr. Tamas Marghescu (CIC Director General) and Mr.

A recent article by Martin Kahanec (Public Policy) busting the myth of welfare magnet of migration receives the attention of major international media.

The Final Report of the "Study on Active Inclusion of Migrants" resulting from an 18-month project funded by the European Commission has been published by the EC. The Study was prepared by a team of researchers from the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Bonn and Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) Dublin coordinated by Martin Kahanec (Public Policy).

Professors Nilgun CEYLAN and Fatih NURAY (Afyon Kocatepe University, Turkey) are visiting our department during the period January 16-21, 2012, in the framework of the Erasmus program. Professor Fatih Nuray will give a lecture in our Departmental Seminar, entitled On statistical convergence, on January 17 (Tuesday), at 4:00 p.m., Room 310/A (Zrinyi u. 14, Third Floor).

Miklós Pálfia (MS Alumnus) will defend soon his PhD Thesis on Matrix Means and Geometric Constructions (supervisor Professor István Vajk).