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doc. RNDr. Roman Soták, PhD.   SK

Email:
roman.sotak@upjs.sk
Homepage:
https://www.upjs.sk/PF/zamestnanec/roman.sotak
Faculty:
PF UPJŠ - Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Science
Department:
ÚMAT - Institute of Mathematics
Office:
SJ1O74
Phone:
+421 55 234 2211,2119,2212
ORCID ID:
0000-0002-0667-0019

Higher education and further qualification growth
Second degree of higher education:
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Science, 1992, Theoretical cybernetics, mathematical informatics and theory of systems
Third degree of higher education:
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Science, 1997, Discrete mathematics
Associate professor:
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Science, 2004, Mathematics

Research /art/ teacher profile

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Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year
Study programme: Mb - Mathematics (OZŠP - person responsible for a study programme, RŠP - chair of the Study Programme Council), study field: Mathematics, first degree
Study programme: MMm - Managerial Mathematics (OZPP - person responsible for teaching a profile course, RŠP - member of the Study Programme Council), study field: Mathematics, second degree
Study programme: DMd - DIscrete Mathematics (OZPP - person responsible for teaching a profile course, RŠP - member of the Study Programme Council), study field: Mathematics, third degree
Profile courses
ÚMV/DSMa - Discrete mathematics I - Mb - Mathematics, first degree
ÚMV/KOO/10 - Combinatorial optimization - MMm - Managerial Mathematics, second degree
ÚMV/dTTG/10 - Topological graph theory - DMd, DMde - Discrete Mathematics, third degree
ÚMV/dTGF/10 - Graph theory - DMd, DMde - Discrete Mathematics, third degree
Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year
Name of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure: Mathematics, study field to which it is assigned: Mathematics
Selected publications

Strong edge colorings of graphs and the covers of Kneser graphs, Borut Lužar, Edita Máčajová, Martin Škoviera, Roman Soták, Journal of Graph Theory, ISSN 0364-9024, Vol. 100(4) (2022), p. 686-697, DOI 10.1002/jgt.22802

Optimal unavoidable sets of types of 3-paths for planar graphs of given girth, Stanislav Jendroľ, Mária Maceková, Mickaël Montassier, Roman Soták, Discrete Mathematics, ISSN 0012-365X, Vol. 339, no. 2 (2016), p. 780-789, DOI 10.1016/j.disc.2015.10.016

New bounds for locally irregular chromatic index of bipartite and subcubic graphs, Borut Lužar, Jakub Przybylo, Roman Soták, ISSN 1382-6905, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Vol. 36 no. 4 (2018), p. 1425-1438, DOI 10.1007/s10878-018-0313-7

Note on 3-choosability of planar graphs with maximum degree 4, Francois Dross, Borut Lužar, Mária Maceková, Roman Soták, Discrete Mathematics, ISSN 0012-365X, Vol. 342, no. 11 (2019), p. 3123-3129, DOI 10.1016/j.disc.2019.06.021
Long cycles and spanning subgraphs of locally maximal 1-planar graphs, Igor Fabrici, Jochen Harant, Tomáš Madaras, Samuel Mohr, Roman Soták, Carol T. Zamfirescu, Journal of Graph Theory, ISSN 0364-9024, Vol. 95, no. 1 (2020), p. 125-137, DOI 10.1002/jgt.22542
Selected projects

VEGA-1/0574/21: Graph colourings with respect to local constraints, 2021-2024, Principal Investigator

APVV-19-0153: Embedded graphs – colorings and structure, 2020-2024, Principal investigator

APVV-15-0116: Structural and chromatic graph characteristic, 2016-2020, Principal investigator

DAAD: Problems of structural and chromatic graph theory 2019-2021, Principal investigator

Top Research Team (2nd call of AK SR) - KOSDIM - The Košice group of Discrete Mathematics (2017 - up to now)

Organisational activities
Member and/or chair - Scientific Board of PF UPJŠ a Scientific Board of UPJŠ, SB of PF UPJŠ: 2007 - up to now (from 2019 chair), SB of UPJŠ: 2019- up to now
Member and/or chair - Academic Senate of PF UPJŠ and Academic Senate of UPJŠ, AS PF UPJŠ: 2004 - 2011 (in the period 2003-2007 chair), AS UPJŠ: 2007-2019 (in the periods 2007-2009 and 2015-2019 chair)
University representative - Council of Higher Education Institutions, Presidency of the Council of Higher Education Institutions, 2007-up to now
Representative of the Council of Higher Education Institutions - Development and Financing Council, 2008-up to now
Member of Departmental Committee for Doctoral Study in Discrete Mathematics - Departmental Committee for Doctoral Studies, 2014-up to now

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International collaboration
Czech Republic - Charles University, Prague (P. Gregor) Czech Republic - University of West Bohemia, Pilsen (P. Holub, M. Mockovčiaková, E. Rollová) France - University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux (F. Kardoš, E. Sopena) France - University of Montpellier, Montpellier (M. Montassier) Germany - Technische Universität Ilmenau, Ilmenau (J. Harant, E. Hexel, J. M. Schmidt, S. Mohr) Germany - TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg (I. Schiermeyer) Germany - University of Applied Sciences Dresden, Dresden (M. Voigt) Germany - Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig (A. Kemnitz, M. Marangio) Hungary - Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (Zs. Tuza) Poland - AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow (J. Przybyło) Slovenia - University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana (R. Škrekovski, B. Lužar) Slovenia - Faculty of Information Studies in Novo mesto, Novo mesto (B. Lužar)

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