The history of our department dates back to 1974, when the Department of Combinatorial Analysis was established at the AGH Institute of Mathematics, later renamed the Department of Discrete Mathematics. The heads of the Department/Chair were successively Professors Zdzisław Skupień, Adam Paweł Wojda, Mariusz Woźniak, and currently Rafał Kalinowski.
The Department's scientific activities include research in discrete mathematics, with particular emphasis on graph theory and combinatorics. Discrete mathematics has become a key area of modern mathematics in the last quarter of a century, as highlighted by the Abel Prize Committee in its justification for awarding this prize for 2021 to two discrete mathematicians, László Lovász and Avi Wigderson.
More information about KMD's research activities can be found on the website under Scientific research.
For several years now, every year we have been inviting two high-level foreign visiting professors from Austria, Slovakia, Germany, South Africa, Slovenia or Hungary to give lectures to students of mathematics (and sometimes computer science) at AGH. As part of the Erasmus programme, our students have repeatedly continued their studies at Montanuniversität Leoben (Austria) and TU Bergakademie Freiberg (Germany), and for the past four years they have been doing six-month internships at the renowned Austrian logistics company KNAPP in Leoben.
The Department's staff teach subjects related to discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science in second-cycle studies, as well as core subjects in first-cycle studies at the Faculty of Applied Mathematics. They supervise two specialities: mathematics in computer science and mathematics in management. In addition, they teach a variety of subjects at the faculties: Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering, Physics and Applied Informatics, Electronics, Computer Science, and Telecommunications and Computer Science, which are the most prestigious faculties of AGH.
You can read about selected successes of KMD members in the Events.
The "Żmirłacz" Research Student Association cooperates with the Chair, which brings together students interested in deepening their knowledge of discrete mathematics. The research of the department's staff together with students from the Circle results in scientific publications and also encourages and facilitates the continuation of studies within the doctoral school.