Jim Geelen

James F. Geelen
Residence Waterloo, ON
Fields Combinatorial optimization
Institutions University of Waterloo
Alma mater University of Waterloo
Doctoral advisor William H. Cunningham
Notable awards Fulkerson Prize

James F. Geelen is a professor at the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization in the faculty of mathematics at the University of Waterloo, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Combinatorial optimization.[1] He is known for his work on Matroid theory and the extension of the Graph Minors Project to representable matroids. In 2003, he won the Fulkerson Prize for his paper entitled "The Excluded Minors for GF(4)-Representable Matroids."[2][3] In 2006, he won the Coxeter–James Prize presented by the Canadian Mathematical Society.[4]

He received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1992 from Curtin University in Australia, and obtained his Ph.D. in 1996 at the University of Waterloo under the supervision of William Cunningham.[5]

References

  1. ^ Jim Geelen at the Canada Research Chairs website.
  2. ^ Official website of the Fulkerson prize.
  3. ^ Geelen, James F.; Gerards, A. M. H.; Kapoor, Ajai (2000), "The Excluded Minors for GF(4)-Representable Matroids", J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B 79 (2): 247–299, doi:10.1006/jctb.2000.1963, http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~jfgeelen/publications/gf4.pdf 
  4. ^ Winners of the Coxeter–James Prize.
  5. ^ Jim Geelen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project..