Italo Jose Dejter

Who is Italo Jose Dejter?

Italo José Dejter is an Argentine-born American mathematician of Bessarabian Jewish descent and a professor at the University of Puerto Rico since 1984. His research interests are in algebraic topology, differential topology, graph theory, coding theory and design theory.

In 1967, Dejter received a Licentiate degree in Mathematics from the University of Buenos Aires, and in 1975, a Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from Rutgers University under the supervision of Ted Petrie. From 1977 to 1984, Dejter was a professor at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Since 1993, he possesses an Erdős number of 2.

Dejter has been a visiting scholar at University of São Paulo, Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, University of Cambridge, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Simon Fraser University, University of Victoria, New York University, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, McMaster University, DIMACS, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Technical University of Denmark, Auburn University, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Technical University of Madrid, Charles University, Ottawa University, Simón Bolívar University, etc. The sections below describe the relevance of Dejter's work in the research areas mentioned in the first paragraph above, or in the box to the right.