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Center for Theoretical Study |
| Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Rep., phone:+420-2-22220671, fax:+420-2-22220653, e-mail: balcar@cts.cuni.cz | |
| Bohuslav Balcar | |
graduated from CU, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics and
earned his PhD from the same faculty for his work Thesis
Generator Classes in Set theory in 1966.
He has repeateadly visited (medium term) many universities:
Technical University, Delft (1989 and 1994), Penn. State
University, USA (1992, 1994) McMaster University, Hamilton,
Ontario, Canada (1990, 1999), etc.
Presently he is a senior researcher at the CTS and teaches
advanced students in the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
of the CU. He is chairman of the organizing committee of the
"Winter School on Abstract Analysis, (since 1989) and was
vice-chairman of the organizing commitee of 7th and 8th Prague
Topological Symposium (1991 and 1996). He is a member of
European Mathematical Society.
His recent publications: B. Balcar, F. Franek: Structural properties
of universal minimal dynamical systems for discrete semigroups,
Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 349 (1997), 1697 - 1724; the results was
immediately used in the monograph Algebra in the Stone - Čech
Compactification. Theory and Application, N. Hindmana a Dony Strauss
(Authors), de Gruyter, 1998; Bohuslav Balcar, Wieslaw Glówczyński,
Thomas Jech (1998): The sequential topology on complete Boolean algebras,
Fund. Mathematicae 155, 59 - 78;