Robin Thomas (mathematician)

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Robin Thomas
Born(1962-08-22)August 22, 1962
Georgia Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorJaroslav Nešetřil

Robin Thomas (August 22, 1962 – March 26, 2020) was a mathematician working in

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.[3] He joined the faculty at Georgia Tech in 1989, and became a Regents' Professor there,[4][5]
briefly serving as the department Chair.

On March 26, 2020, he died of

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis at the age of 57 after 12 years of struggle with the illness.[2][6]

Awards

Thomas was awarded the Fulkerson Prize for outstanding papers in discrete mathematics twice,[7] in 1994 as co-author of a paper on the Hadwiger conjecture,[8] and in 2009 for the proof of the strong perfect graph theorem.[9] In 2011 he was awarded the Karel Janeček Foundation Neuron Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Mathematics.[10] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[11] He was named a

Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B was a tribute to his work.[13]

References

  1. ^ Cremation Society of Georgia: Robin Thomas
  2. ^ a b Fortnow, Lance (March 28, 2020). "Robin Thomas". Computational Complexity.
  3. ^ Robin Thomas at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  4. arXiv:0811.3245 [math.CO
    ]..
  5. ^ Robin Thomas Earns Distinction, Named Regents' Professor, Georgia Tech College of Computing, June 24, 2010.
  6. ^ Robin Thomas tribute, Georgia Tech Mathematics, April 7, 2020.
  7. ^ Fulkerson Prize: Official site with award details.
  8. S2CID 9608738
    .
  9. S2CID 119151552
    .
  10. ^ Karel Janeček Foundation 2011 Neuron Prize winners (in Czech) Archived 2012-12-23 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-08-27.
  12. ^ "SIAM Announces Class of 2018 Fellows", SIAM News, March 29, 2018
  13. doi:10.1016/j.jctb.2022.10.001
    .

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