Monday, 4 March 2024 Prof. Ademir Hujdurović was awarded the Kalman Visiting Fellowship to the University of Auckland

Prof. Ademir Hujdurović, Dean of UP FAMNIT, was awarded the Kalman Visiting Fellowship to the University of Auckland. This Fellowship is named after John Kalman, who was a professor of Mathematics at the University of Auckland from 1964 to 1993, and a leading promoter of New Zealand mathematics. The Fellowship is generously supported by a grant from the Margaret and John Kalman Charitable Trust.

This Fellowship is awarded each year to an early career academic to enable them to visit the University of Auckland for a period of several weeks. The Kalman Visiting Fellow would be a faculty member of another University. The purpose of the Kalman Visiting Fellowship is to enable successful mathematicians to visit the University of Auckland and to participate in the intellectual life of the University. The Visiting Fellows participate in and contribute to research activity, give seminars and engage in informal discussions on research topics with staff and students in the Department of Mathematics (and other Departments within the Faculty of Science and University as appropriate).

As part of the fellowship, the Dean of UP FAMNIT visited the University of Auckland this February and held a seminar titled "The Erd˝os-Ko-Rado property of transitive permutation groups".

Prof. Ademir Hujdurović and Assoc. Prof. György Kiss from the Department of Mathematics at UP FAMNIT also attended the Symmetries of Discrete Objects conference (SODO 2024 Auckland) at the University of Auckland, which took place from 12 to 16 February. They contributed with the talks titled "Stability of Cayley graphs" (by Prof. Ademir Hujdurović) and "Geometric constructions of small regular graphs with girth 5 and 7" (by Assoc. Prof. György Kiss).

Prof. Ademir Hujdurović at the SODO 2024 Auckland conference

SODO 2024 Auckland conference participants