Michel Las Vergnas Explained
Michel Las Vergnas (11 January 1941 – 19 January 2013) was a French mathematician associated with Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University in Paris, and a research director emeritus at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique.[1] [2]
Las Vergnas earned his Ph.D. in 1972 from Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University, under the supervision of Claude Berge. He was one of the founders of the European Journal of Combinatorics, which began publishing in 1980.[3]
His initial research was in graph theory, and particularly in the theories of matching and connectivity.[1] Beginning in 1975, he became one of the pioneers of the theory of oriented matroids,[1] [4] [5] and since that time he was interested in connections between combinatorics and geometry.[1]
A workshop on combinatorial geometry, held in Marseilles in April 2013, was dedicated to his memory.[6]
Notes and References
- http://www.ecp6.jussieu.fr/mlv.html Michel Las Vergnas passed away
- https://archive.today/20131104102105/http://www.ecp6.jussieu.fr/MLV/index.html Las Vergnas' home page
- http://www.journals.elsevier.com/european-journal-of-combinatorics/editorial-board/ List of founding editors of Eur J. Comb
- http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-oriented1 http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-oriented1
- Book: Björner . Anders . Anders Björner . Las Vergnas . Michel . Sturmfels . Bernd . Bernd Sturmfels . White . Neil . Ziegler . Günter . Günter M. Ziegler . Oriented Matroids . . 1999 . 978-0-521-77750-6 . 0944.52006 . Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Its Applications . 46 . 2nd . It seems fair to say that the major credit for the origination of oriented matroid theory should be shared by Robert Bland, Jon Folkman, Michel Las Vergnas, and Jim Lawrence.. 150. .
- http://www.lirmm.fr/~gioan/CG13-CIRM/public/CG13-workshop-program.pdf Workshop program