Robin Thomas (August 22, 1962 – March 26, 2020) was a mathematician working in graph theory at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Robin Thomas | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 22, 1962[1] Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| Died | March 26, 2020 (aged 57)[2] |
| Alma mater | Charles University |
| Awards | Fulkerson Prize Karel Janeček Foundation Neuron Prize |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Jaroslav Nešetřil |
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
editThomas 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 SIAM Fellow in 2018.[12] The January 2023 issue of the Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B was a tribute to his work.[13]
References
edit- ^ Cremation Society of Georgia: Robin Thomas
- ^ a b Fortnow, Lance (March 28, 2020). "Robin Thomas". Computational Complexity.
- ^ Robin Thomas at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ^ Author biography from Berg, Deborah E.; Norine, Serguei; Su, Francis Edward; Thomas, Robin; Wollan, Paul (2008). "Voting in agreeable societies". arXiv:0811.3245 [math.CO]..
- ^ Robin Thomas Earns Distinction, Named Regents' Professor Archived 2017-12-22 at the Wayback Machine, Georgia Tech College of Computing, June 24, 2010.
- ^ Robin Thomas tribute, Georgia Tech Mathematics, April 7, 2020.
- ^ Fulkerson Prize: Official site with award details.
- ^ Robertson, Neil; Seymour, Paul; Thomas, Robin (1993), "Hadwiger's conjecture for K6-free graphs", Combinatorica, 13 (3): 279–361, doi:10.1007/BF01202354, S2CID 9608738.
- ^ Chudnovsky, Maria; Robertson, Neil; Seymour, Paul; Thomas, Robin (2006), "The strong perfect graph theorem", Annals of Mathematics, 164 (1): 51–229, arXiv:math/0212070, doi:10.4007/annals.2006.164.51, S2CID 119151552.
- ^ Karel Janeček Foundation 2011 Neuron Prize winners (in Czech) Archived 2012-12-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-08-27.
- ^ "SIAM Announces Class of 2018 Fellows", SIAM News, March 29, 2018
- ^ Krivelevich, Michael; Mohar, Bojan (2023). "Editorial | Robin Thomas (1962–2020)". Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B. doi:10.1016/j.jctb.2022.10.001.
External links
edit- Personal homepage of Robin Thomas
- Liu, Chun-Hung (June 2022). "Legacy of Robin Thomas" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 69 (6): 966–977. doi:10.1090/noti2497.
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