Jorge Urrutia Galicia

Jorge Urrutia Galicia is a Mexican mathematician and computer scientist in the Institute of Mathematics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).[1] His research primarily concerns discrete and computational geometry.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Urrutia.
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Urrutia earned his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo in 1980, under the supervision of Ronald C. Read.[2] He worked for many years at the University of Ottawa before moving to UNAM in 1999.[3] With Jörg-Rüdiger Sack in 1991, he was founding co-editor-in-chief of the academic journal Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications.[4]

The Mexican Conference on Discrete Mathematics and Computational Geometry, held in 2013 in Oaxaca, was dedicated to Urrutia in honor of his 60th birthday.[5]

References
  1. Faculty profile, UNAM, retrieved 2015-03-23.
  2. Jorge Urrutia at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. Jorge Urrutia Galicia Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, Mexican Conference on Discrete Mathematics and Computational Geometry, retrieved 2015-03-23.
  4. O’Rourke, Joseph (September 1993), "Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications", ACM Computing Reviews, Review #CR115947.
  5. Mexican Conference on Discrete Mathematics and Computational Geometry Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2015-03-23.
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