Michel Lavrauw

I am a professor in Mathematics ("redni profesor") at the University of Primorska in Koper (Slovenia), member of the Department of Mathematics, and the Andrej Marušič Institute (UP IAM). My research areas are Algebra, Geometry, and Combinatorics.

Address:
University of Primorska
Department of Mathematics
Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies
Glagoljaška 8
SI-6000 Koper
Slovenia
E-mail: firstname (dot) lastname (at) famnit (dot) upr (dot) si
Webpage: https://osebje.famnit.upr.si/~michel.lavrauw/

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Academic background

I studied Mathematics at Ghent University (Belgium), and obtained my Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) in 2001 under the supervision of Aart Blokhuis and Andries Brouwer. I worked as a postdoc at the University of Naples (Marie Curie Fellowship), at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona (EU-project COMBSTRU), Eindhoven University of Technology (Veni grant (NWO)), Ghent University (FWO fellowship), and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). In 2012, I obtained my Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale for full professor (settore 01/A1, Algebra/Geomety) from the Italian Ministero dell'Istruzione dell'Università e della Ricerca, and was a faculty member at the University of Padua between 2011 and 2018, and at Sabancı University between 2017 and 2023. In 2023 I joined the University of Primorska as a full professor in the Department of Mathematics of FAMNIT.

Academic service

Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A.
Editorial Board Member of Designs, Codes and Cryptography.
Editorial Board Member of Finite Fields and Their Applications.
Author of the FinInG package and member of the FinInG councel. (FinInG is a GAP-package for computation in Finite Incidence Geometry.)
Organiser of the Irsee conferences on Finite Geometries.

PhD students

Nour Alnajjarine (2022)
Gülizar Günay (2021)
Geertrui Van de Voorde (2010) (Current position: Assistant Professor at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand)
Honorary student: John Sheekey (2011) (Current position: Assistant Professor at UCD, Dublin, Ireland)

International events

New Trends in Algebra and Its Applications, Al Ain, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UAE, 5-8 November, 2024.
Finite Geometries, 7th Irsee Conference, Irsee, Germany, 31 August - 6 September 2025

Past events

(since 2011)

Combinatorics 2024, Carovigno, Italy, 3-7 June 2024
Summer school finite geometry and friends, Brussels, Belgium, 18-22 September 2023
Finite geometry workshop 2023, Szeged, Hungary, 29 October - 1 November, 2023
The 11th PhD Summer School in Discrete Mathematics, Koper, Slovenia, 25 June 2023 to 1 July 2023
The 10th Slovenian Conference on Graph Theory, Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, 18-24 June, 2023
Groups, graphs and everything in between, Bled, Slovenia, May 4th - May 7th, 2023
Aart and Combinatorics, Mathematics Village, Izmir, Turkey, 20-24 February, 2023
Finite Geometries, 6th Irsee Conference, Irsee, Germany, 28 August - 3 September, 2022
27th International Conference on Applications of Computer Algebra, Gebze, Turkey, 15-19 August 2022
Summer School on Finite Geometry, Istanbul, Turkey, August 8-12, 2022
10th PhD Summer School in Discrete Mathematics, Mt. Rogla, Slovenia, 26 June - 1 July, 2022
Combinatorics 2022 Mantua, Italy, 30 May - 3 June, 2022
SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, 16-20 August, 2021
EUROCOMB 2021, Barcelona, Spain, 6-10 September, 2021
Cryptography and Coding Theory (online) organised by the group CRITTOGRAFIA E CODICI (Italian Mathematical Union) 21-22 September 2021.
Combinatorial Designs and Codes (Online 12-16 July 2021)
Algebraic Coding Theory e-Summer School - ACT21, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 7-11 June, 2021
Curves of finite fields (Online 24-29 May 2021)
International Workshop on Cryptography and Coding Theory (Online 8-12 March 2021)
Mathematical Aspects of Computer and Information Sciences 2019 Gebze-Istanbul, Turkey, November 13-15, 2019
9th Slovenian International Conference on Graph Theory, Bled, Slovenia, June 23-29, 2019
Summer school Finite Geometry and Friends, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, June 17-21, 2019
Antalya Algebra Days XXI, Mathematics Village, Izmir, Turkey, May 15-19, 2019
Ankara-Istanbul Algebraic Geometry & Number Theory Meetings March 16, April 13, May 11, 2019.
Discrete Mathematics Days Istanbul Center for Mathematical Sciences (IMBM), Istanbul, Turkey, May 4-5, 2019
Finite Geometry Workshop 2019, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary, January 31 - February 3, 2019
Combinatorics 2018, Arco (Trento), Italy, June 3-9, 2018
Antalya Algebra Days, Mathematics Village, Izmir, Turkey, May 16-20, 2018
Discretaly: A Workshop in Discrete Mathematics, Rome, Italy, February 1-2, 2018
Finite Geometries, Fifth Irsee Conference, Irsee, Germany, September 10-16, 2017
Summer School on Finite Geometry, Brighton, UK, 26 - 30 June, 2017
Finite Geometry Workshop 2017, Szeged, Szeged, Hungary, April 27 - May 1, 2017
International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Fields WAIFI 2016, Ghent, Belgium, July 13-15, 2016 (Conference photograph)
Combinatorics 2016, Maratea, Italy, June 29th May - 4th June, 2016 (Conference photograph)
The 12th International Conference on Finite Fields and Their Applications, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA, July 13-17, 2015 (Conference photograph)
The Fields-TIMC Workshop on Functions and Geometries over Finite Fields, Carleton University, Canada, July 8-11, 2015 (Conference photograph)
Finite Geometries, Fourth Irsee Conference, Irsee, Germany, September 14-20, 2014 (Conference photograph)
Groups, Computation and Geometries, Colorado State University, USA, June 9-13, 2014
Combinatorics 2014, Gaeta, Italy, June 1-6, 2014
Antalya Algebra Days XVI, Antalya, Turkey, May 9-13, 2014
Colloquium on Galois Geometries to the memory of Frédéric Vanhove, Ghent, Belgium, February 27, 2014
Workshop and Summer School on Finite Semifields, Vicenza, Italy, September 9-13, 2013
The 11th International Conference on Finite Fields and Their Applications, Magdeburg, Germany, July 22-26, 2013
Colloquim on Galois Geometry, October 26, 2012, Ghent, Belgium
Academy Contact Forum "Galois geometries and applications", October 5, 2012, Brussels, Belgium
Conference on Finite Geometries in honour of Frank De Clerck, Ferrara, Italy, September 17-18, 2012 (Conference photograph)
Combinatorics 2012, Perugia, Italy, September 9-15, 2012
RICAM-Workshop on Finite Fields and Their Applications: Character Sums and Polynomials, St. Wolfgang, Austria, September 2-7, 2012
Conference in honour of Dieter Jungnickel's 60th birthday, Magdeburg, Germany, March 23-24, 2012
Giornate di Geometria, Vicenza, Italy, February 13-14, 2012
Colloquium on Combinatorics Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany, November 11-12, 2011
Algebraic Combinatorics: In Memory of Bob Liebler, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, November 4-6, 2011
Geometric and algebraic combinatorics 5, Oisterwijk, The Netherlands, August 14-19, 2011
10th International Conference on Finite Fields and their Applications, Ghent, Belgium, July 10-15, 2011
Finite Geometries, Third Irsee Conference, Irsee, Germany, June 19-25, 2011
DIAMANT Symposium May 2011, Heeze, The Netherlands, May 26-27, 2011
Giornata di Geometria, Vicenza, Italy, March 4, 2011

Contact

Michel Lavrauw
Department of Mathematics
Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies
University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia
firstname (dot) lastname (at) upr (dot) si