Neil Robertson (mathematician)

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Neil Robertson
Born December, 1938
Canada
Residence United States, Canada
Nationality American
Fields Mathematician
Institutions The Ohio State University
Alma mater University of Waterloo, 1969
Doctoral advisor William Tutte
Doctoral students Kamal Chakravarti
Bogdan Oporowski
Known for Robertson-Seymour theorem
Notable awards Pólya Prize (SIAM) (2004, 2006)

G. Neil Robertson is a mathematician working mainly in topological graph theory, currently a distinguished professor[1] at The Ohio State University. He earned his Ph.D. in 1969 at the University of Waterloo under his doctoral advisor William Tutte. According to the criteria of the Erdős Number Project, Dr. Robertson has an Erdős number of 3, but it can be lowered to 2 if an obituary he coauthored with Arthur M. Hobbs is counted.[2]

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[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] 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.

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[edit] Theorem proofs

[edit] Prizes

  1. Fulkerson Prize (1994, 2006) [3]
  2. Pólya Prize (SIAM) (2004)
  3. Distinguished Scholar Award (OSU) (1997)
  4. Alumni Achievement Medal (Waterloo) (2002)

[edit] References

  1. ^ [1] Neil Robertson awarded the title of Distinguished Professor
  2. ^ Collaboration Distance report from MathSciNet, Retrieved September 21, 2006.
  3. ^ [2] Fulkerson Prize Winners

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Persondata
NAME Robertson, Neil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH December, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Canada
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
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