Alejandro Illanes Mejía
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México-IMATE, Mexico
Abstract: Imagine that you are given an assembly game, consisting of rubber triangles that can be deformed but not broken and that the rule for forming figures with them is put together whit their edges. The first challenge is form the shell of a sphere with them, the second one is form the surface of a donut. From a mathematical point of view: What figures can be formed with your game? In this talk we will answer this question using only geometric arguments.
Semblance: Researcher C at the UNAM Mathematics Institute. He has published 147 research articles between 1985 and 2024, also 4 books, one of which whit international circulation, (Marcel Dekker, Hyperspaces, with Sam B. Nadler, Jr., 1999). He has directed 32 bachelor's theses, 6 master's theses, and 16 doctoral theses. More than 90 research talks at international meetings, with 12 plenary sessions. A large number of dissemination talks and talks, at colloquia in 16 universities. Reviewer for more than 20 research journals, also books, projects, dissemination articles, etc. Commentator for Mathematical Reviews and Zentralblatt MATH. Professor at UNAM since April 1978, he has taught more than 100 courses. He has worked at CIMAT in Guanajuato (1992), California State University in Sacramento (2004) and Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas (Aug. 2013-Jul. 2014). Member of the SNII since 1986, with level III since 2000 and emeritus since 2021. He worked for the Mexican Mathematical Olympiad as an organizer, head of delegation, giving mini-courses to teachers, coach, book editor, co-author of brochures and author of a book, etc.
- Winner of the “National University Distinction for Young Academics” in exact sciences, teaching, UNAM, November 1994.
- Winner of the “UNAM Award” in exact sciences, teaching, November, 2005.
- Head of the Jury of the International Mathematical Olympiad, Mérida, Yucatán, 2005.