{"47638":{"#nid":"47638","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Robin Thomas Wins Second Fulkerson Prize","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERobin Thomas, Professor in the School of Mathematics with a courtesy appointment in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and three colleagues have been awarded a 2009 Fulkerson Prize.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAdministered by jointly by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Mathematical Programming Society (MPS), the Fulkerson Prize was created in 1979 in honor of the late mathematician Delbert Ray Fulkerson. The Prize includes a $1500 award and recognizes outstanding papers in the field of discrete mathematics. No more than three prizes are awarded every three years.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Thomas received the award on August 23rd at MPS\u0027s 20th International Symposium of MPS alongside colleagues Maria Chudnovsky of Columbia University, Neil Robertson of the Ohio State University, and Paul Seymour of Princeton University. The research team\u0027s paper \u0022The Strong Perfect Graph Theorem,\u0022 published in the \u003Cem\u003EAnnals of Mathematics\u003C\/em\u003E in 2006, resolves a conjecture proposed in 1960 by Claude Berge, one of the modern founders of combinatorics and graph theory.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGary Parker, Professor of ISyE and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, described the Fulkerson Prize as a \u0022very serious award\u0022 and lauded Thomas\u0027s achievement as \u0022quite rare.\u0022 In fact, Thomas is one of only four individuals to win the Fulkerson Prize multiple times, among colleagues Robertson and Seymour. The trio previously collaborated on the paper \u0022Hadwiger\u0027s Conjecture for K6-Free Graphs\u0022 for which they won a 1994 Fulkerson Prize.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA renowned graph theorist, Robin Thomas serves as the Director of the Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization (ACO) doctoral program, a multidisciplinary venture sponsored by the College of Computing, the Stewart School of ISyE, and the School of Mathematics. He received his Doctor of Natural Sciences from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, in 1985.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Robin Thomas, Professor in the School of Math with a courtesy appointment in the Stewart School of ISyE, and three colleagues have been awarded a 2009 Fulkerson Prize.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Robin Thomas Wins Second Fulkerson Prize"}],"uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2009-06-25 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:53","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-08-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-08-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"47639":{"id":"47639","type":"image","title":"Dr. Robin Thomas","body":null,"created":"1449175354","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:34","changed":"1475894447","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:47","alt":"Dr. Robin Thomas","file":{"fid":"101252","name":"trp50807.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/trp50807_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/trp50807_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":54066,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/trp50807_0.jpg?itok=IQOZ9UpE"}}},"media_ids":["47639"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"106","name":"Fulkerson Prize"},{"id":"105","name":"Robin Thomas"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}