Dominique de Caen

Dominique de Caen
Born (1956-05-11)May 11, 1956
Died June 25, 2002(2002-06-25) (aged 46)
Citizenship Canada
Nationality Canadian
Fields Mathematics
Institutions McGill University Queen's University
Alma mater University of Toronto
Thesis On Turán's Hypergraph Problem (1984)
Doctoral advisor Eric Mendelsohn
Known for Graph theory
Probability
Information theory

Dominique de Caen (May 11, 1956June 25, 2002) was a mathematician, Doctor of Mathematics, and professor of Mathematics, who specialized in graph theory, probability, and information theory. He is renowned for his research on Turán's extremal problem for hypergraphs.[1][2]

Career

He studied mathematics at McGill University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1977.[1]

In 1979, he obtained a Master of Science degree from Queen's University with a thesis on Prime Boolean matrices.[1]

In 1982, he earned the Doctorate of Mathematics degree from University of Toronto with a thesis entitled On Turán's Hypergraph Problem which was supervised by Eric Mendelsohn.[1][3]

Most of his academic papers have been published in the journals Discrete Mathematics, Designs, Codes and Cryptography, the Journal of Combinatorial Theory, and the European Journal of Combinatorics, among others.[2][4]

Academic research

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Van Dam, Edwin R. (2005). "The combinatorics of Dom de Caen". Designs, Codes and Cryptography. Springer. 34 (2): 137–148. doi:10.1007/s10623-004-4850-y.
  2. 1 2 "Dominique de Caen (1956-2002)". Queen's University at Kingston Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
  3. Dominique de Caen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. "Dominique de Caen Bibliographic Database". The Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
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