Tibor Pogány
Department of Sciences
Faculty of Maritime Studies
University of Rijeka
Studentska 2, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia
PHONE: +385 (051) 338-411
e-mail: poganj@brod.pfri.hr
BORN: March 7 , 1954 in Apatin, Serbia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apatin)
MARITAL STATUS: Married; daughter
Agata was born July 16, 1996.
EDUCATION:
1. Hungarian elementary (1968) and secondary school (1972)
in Sombor, Serbia.
2. Graduated in Mathematics (1978) (Math. Stat.
& Applications Major) at Faculty of Sciences, University of Belgrade,
Serbia
(http://www.matf.bg.ac.yu)
3. M.Sc. degree in Mathematics (1981) with Faculty of Sciences, University of Belgrade at December 29, 1981. The master thesis On the decompostion and estimation of stationary stochastic
process with rational spectral density (O dekompoziciji i prognoziranju stacionarnog slučjanog procesa sa racionalnom spektralnom gustinom) . Degree thesis committee Z. Ivković, J.Mališić (supervisor), S. Stojanović.
4. Ph.D. degree in Mathematics (1986) with the same institution. The doctoral thesis title Singular stochastic processes, Padé - approximation and mean square convergence (Singularni slučajni procesi, Padé-aproksimacija i srednje kvadratna konvergencija), November 26 , 1986. Degree thesis committee P. Peruničić, J. Mališić (supervisor), M. Janc.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1. From 1978 to 1986 I worked in secondary schools (trade schools) as a teacher of mathematics (Serbian and Hungarian teaching languages).
2. From 1986 to 1988 I worked at the Technical Faculty at Bor, University of Belgrade, firstly as a reaserch assistant, then as an assistant professor (docent) of Mathematics.
3. Since 1988 I have been working at the Faculty of Maritime Studies, University of Rijeka, as an Assistant Professor, since 1991 as an Associate Professor, and since 1997 as Full-time Professor of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and different kind Statistics, Stochastic Processes (postgraduate level), by 2002 in permanent Full - Professor position.
FIELDS OF INTERESTS:
1. Whittaker-Kotel'nikov-Shannon (WKS) Sampling Theorem.
2. Spectral and Correlation Theory of Stochastic Signals.
3. Analytic Inequalities.
4. Mathieu-, Kapteyn-, Neumann-Series.
5. Special Functions.
COAUTHORS (in alphabetic order)
Svjetlana Bešlić, University of Rijeka, Croatia
Paul L. Butzer, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Dean Crnković, University of Rijeka, Croatia
Biserka Draščić, University of Rijeka, Croatia
Milan V. Jovanović, University of Banja Luka, BiH
Vladimir Kadum, Juraj Dobrila University, Pula, Croatia
Yong Sup Kim, Wonkwang University, Ihsan, South Korea
Saralees Nadarajah, University of Manchester, UK
Andriy Yakovich Olenko, LaTrobe University, Victoria, Australia
Josip Pečarić, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Ivan Perić, University of Zagreb, Croatia
†Predrag M. Peruničić, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Zurab Piranashvili, Institute of Cybernetics of Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi, Georgia
Mirko Radić, University of Rijeka, Croatia
Arjun Kumar Rathie, MIT Engineering College, Bikaner, India
Sanja Rukavina, University of Rijeka, Croatia
Ram Kishore Saxena, Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur, India
Hari M. Srivastava, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Sándor József, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Süli Endre, Oxford University, UK
Živorad Tomovski, St. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia
Mato Tudor, University of Rijeka, Croatia
Zdenka Zenzerović, University of Rijeka, Croatia
Dinko Zorović, University of Rijeka, Croatia
COLLABORATION DISTANCE:
Erdős Number = 3:
Erdős Pál (1913 - 1996) - Joel Lee Brenner (1912-1997) - H. M. Srivastava - Tibor K. Pogány.
MATHEMATICAL GENEALOGY (Thesis completion year)
1. Tibor. K. Pogány(1986) - Jovan. D. Mališić(1973) - Zoran Ivković(1964) - Tadija Pejović(1923) - Mihailo Petrović - Alas (1894) - Charles Hermite(?) & C. É. Picard (1877)
2. Charles Hermite(?) - Eugéne-Charles Catalan(1841) - Joseph Liouville(1836) - Simeon Denis Poisson(1800) & Louis Jacques Thenard (?)- Joseph Louis Lagrange (no PhD)
3. Charles Émile Picard (1877) - Gaston Darboux (1866) - Michel Chasles (1814) - Simeon Denis Poisson (1800)
4. Poisson's ancestors: Lagrange & Pierre - Simon Laplace (?)
5. Laplace - Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (?)
6. Lagrange's mathematical ancestors (Euler, Bernoullis, Leibniz and Weigel) are listed on
http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=17864
PhD STUDENT
Biserka Draščić Ban, Mathieu type series and Dirichlet series, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Mathematics, Zagreb. Thesis defended October 27, 2009.
GRANTS/AWARDS
1. 2001 Annual prize of City Council of Rijeka for a monography by Oxford Univeristy Press, articles in Sampling Theory and Generalized Polygons.
2. 2007 Annual prize of Foundation of University of Rijeka for the Scientific Achievements and Excellence in Teaching.