Robin Thomas (mathematician)
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Robin Thomas is a mathematician working in graph theory
at the Georgia Institute of Technology
.
Thomas received his doctorate in 1985 from Charles University
in Prague
, Czechoslovakia
(now the Czech Republic
), under the supervision of Jaroslav Nešetřil
. He joined the faculty at Georgia Tech in 1989, and is now a Regents' Professor there.
for outstanding papers in discrete mathematics
twice, in 1994 as co-author of a paper on the Hadwiger conjecture
, and in 2009 for the proof of the strong perfect graph theorem.
Graph theory
In mathematics and computer science, graph theory is the study of graphs, mathematical structures used to model pairwise relations between objects from a certain collection. A "graph" in this context refers to a collection of vertices or 'nodes' and a collection of edges that connect pairs of...
at the Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States...
.
Thomas received his doctorate in 1985 from Charles University
Charles University in Prague
Charles University in Prague is the oldest and largest university in the Czech Republic. Founded in 1348, it was the first university in Central Europe and is also considered the earliest German university...
in Prague
Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
, Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...
(now the Czech Republic
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
), under the supervision of Jaroslav Nešetřil
Jaroslav Nešetril
Jaroslav Nešetřil is a Czech mathematician, working at Charles University in Prague. His research areas include combinatorics , graph theory , algebra , posets , computer science .Nešetřil...
. He joined the faculty at Georgia Tech in 1989, and is now a Regents' Professor there.
Awards
Thomas was awarded the Fulkerson PrizeFulkerson Prize
The Fulkerson Prize for outstanding papers in the area of discrete mathematics is sponsored jointly by the Mathematical Programming Society and the American Mathematical Society . Up to three awards of $1500 each are presented at each International Symposium of the MPS...
for outstanding papers in discrete mathematics
Discrete mathematics
Discrete mathematics is the study of mathematical structures that are fundamentally discrete rather than continuous. In contrast to real numbers that have the property of varying "smoothly", the objects studied in discrete mathematics – such as integers, graphs, and statements in logic – do not...
twice, in 1994 as co-author of a paper on the Hadwiger conjecture
Hadwiger conjecture (graph theory)
In graph theory, the Hadwiger conjecture states that, if all proper colorings of an undirected graph G use k or more colors, then one can find k disjoint connected subgraphs of G such that each subgraph is connected by an edge to each other subgraph...
, and in 2009 for the proof of the strong perfect graph theorem.