Awards, Recogntions

1. Canada Research Chair in Optimization, 2002 -
2. INFORMS Optimization Section, Vice-chair, Linear Programming and Complementarity, 2001 -
3. Member of Nicholson Prize Committee, INFORMS, 2001 - 2002
4. Member of Evaluation Panel of Mathematics in Portugal, 2002
5. Chairman of EUROPT, The Continuous Optimization Working Group of EURO, 2000 -
6. Guest professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, October 1, 1999 -- April 1, 2000 (finally not taken).
7. Semiplenary speaker at EURO-XVII, Budapest, July 16--19, 2000. Simplex versus interior point methods: Pros and Cons.
8. Semiplenary speaker at EURO-XVI, Brussels, July 12--15, 1998. An Easy way to teach interior point methods.
9. Plenary speaker at APMOD-98, Nycosia, Cyprus, 11--13 March, 1998. An easy way to teach interior point methods.
10. Plenary speaker at MOK-97, Pécs, Hungary, 16-18 October, 1997. Interior Point Methods in Optimization -- in memoriam for Gy. Sonnevend.
11. Semi-plenary (featured talk) speaker on the International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 25--28, 1997. Title: The Criss-Cross Method: A Fresh View at Pivot Methods (joint paper in the conference volume with K. Fukuda).
12. Obermann Fellowship, Center of Advanced Studies, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, (1994 -- two weeks).
13. The paper is selected as "The best OR paper of the year 1992" by The Operations Research Society of Japan: Linear Complementarity and Oriented Matroids, (1992) Japanese Journal of Operations Research 35. 45--61. (Together with K. Fukuda).
14. Gy. Farkas Prize, J. Bolyai Math. Society, Budapest, Hungary, 1984.