Neil Robertson (mathematician)

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**Neil Robertson**
Photograph of Dr. Neil Robertson from The Ohio State University
Born	December, 1938 Canada
Residence	United States, Canada
Nationality	American
Field	Mathematician
Institution	The Ohio State University
Alma Mater	University of Waterloo, 1969
Academic Advisor	William Tutte
Notable Students	Kamal Chakravarti Bogdan Oporowski
Known for	Robertson-Seymour theorem
Notable Prizes	Pólya Prize (SIAM) (2004)

G. Neil Robertson is a mathematician working mainly in topological graph theory, currently teaching at The Ohio State University. He earned his Ph.D. in 1969 at the University of Waterloo under his doctoral advisor William Tutte. Dr. Robertson has an Erdős number of 2 due to coauthoring a paper with Arthur M. Hobbs.^[1]

1 Biography
2 Prizes
3 Conferences
- 3.1 Invited or contributed presentations
- 3.2 Video
4 Theorem proofs
5 Prizes
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Biography

In 1969, Robertson joined the faculty of The Ohio State University, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1972 and Professor in 1984. He was a consultant with Bell Communications Research from 1984 to 1996. He has held visiting faculty positions in many institutions, most extensively at Princeton University from 1996 to 2001, and most recently at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, in 2002.

[edit] Prizes

Pólya Prize (SIAM) (2004)
Fulkerson Prize (1994)
Distinguished Scholar Award (OSU) (1997)
Alumni Achievement Medal (Waterloo) (2002)

[edit] Conferences

[edit] Invited or contributed presentations

One week lecture series at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire: On the proof of the 4-color theorem, 2 hour lectures, and On the proof of the graph minor theorem, 2 hour lectures, November, 1994.
AMS meeting at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida: Binary matroids of branch-width three, 20 minutes, March 1995.
The R. C. Bose Memorial conference, Fort Collins, Colorado: The four-color theorem, 36 minutes, June 1995.
The third Slovene international conference in graph theory, Bled, Slovenia: Results and problems about representativity of graph embeddings, 50 minutes, June 1995.
The AMS, IMS, Siam Joint Summer Research Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington: Binary matroids of branch-width three, 45 minutes, July 1995.
AMS meeting in Guanajuato, Mexico: Planar graphs on nonplanar surfaces", 20 minutes, November 1995.
Some thoughts on Hadwiger's Conjecture. June 28, 1999.