Italo Jose Dejter (December 17, 1939) is an Argentine-born American mathematician and a retired professor of Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Puerto Rico, August 1984-February 2018.
Dejter has conducted research in Algebraic topology,
Differential topology, Graph theory, Coding theory and Design theory.
Dejter obtained a Licentiate degree in Mathematics at University of Buenos Aires in 1967, arrived at Rutgers University in 1970 by means of a Guggenheim Fellowship and obtained there a Ph.D.
degree in Mathematics in 1975 under the supervision of Professor Ted Petrie, with support of the National Science Foundation.
Dejter was a professor at the
Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, from 1977 to 1984, with grants from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, (CNPq).
Dejter has been a visiting scholar at a number of research institutions, including University of São Paulo, Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Federal University of 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 and Simón BolÃvar University.
The sections below describe the relevance of Dejter's work in the research areas mentioned in the first paragraph above, or in the adjacent box.