Spyros Magliveras

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Spyros Simos Magliveras (born September 6, 1938 in Athens ) is a Greek-born American mathematician and computer scientist.

life and work

Magliveras graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering (BEE) in 1961 and a master's degree in mathematics in 1963. He received his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Birmingham under Donald Livingstone in 1970 ( The subgroup structure of the Higman-Sims simple group ). Before that he was an instructor at various universities in Florida, systems analyst at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (Institute of Social Research) and consultant for NBC, among others .

From 1970 he was first assistant professor and then professor of mathematics at the State University of New York (in Oswego ). From 1978 he was professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln , where he has been Henson Professor Emeritus since 2000. He was then a professor at Florida Atlantic University and, since 2003, director of the Center for Cryptology and Information Security.

Among other things, he was visiting professor at the University of Birmingham (1984/85), at the University of La Sapienza (Rome) and the University of Waterloo .

Magliveras dealt with combinatorial designs, permutation groups , finite geometries, encryption of data ( cryptography ) and data security.

Magliveras has been married since 1962 and has two children.

In 2001 he received the Euler Medal .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science, Vol. 5 . Thomson Gale, Detroit 2004, ISBN 0-7876-7397-8 .
  2. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ The ICA Medals. Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications, accessed June 17, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Magliveras, Spyros
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Magliveras, Spyros Simos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens