Waterloo Alumni Achievement Medal - Neil Robertson
3 Oct 2002
As readers of today's OSUToday will know, our colleague Neil Robertson has been named one of the four inaugural winners of the University of Waterloo Alumni Achievement Medal. Neil was recognized for a research career at Ohio State "marked by brilliant research achievement in his subject, graph theory."
The full text of the citation is appended below.
Congratulations Neil!
Peter
Neil Robertson
Neil Robertson completed his PhD in the mathematics faculty in 1969, under the supervision of Prof. William Tutte. He then embarked on an academic career at Ohio State University that has been marked by brilliant research achievement in his subject, graph theory.
Perhaps best known is his series of remarkable research papers with Paul Seymour that proved the Graph Minors Theorem, for which the Fulkerson Prize of the Mathematical Programming Society was awarded in 1994. Like other ground-breaking work, this is known throughout the world by their names alone -- as the "Robertson-Seymour" methodology.
Robertson's outstanding contributions continue. Earlier this year, he and a group of co-authors completed a proof of the most widely known open problem in graph theory, the Strong Perfect Graph Conjecture.
UW is pleased to honour Neil Robertson for his academic accomplishments, particularly in his pioneering work in graph theory and his profound influence in the area of combinatorics.
Related Links:
- Math faculty introduces alumni medal
- UW's Faculty of Mathematics launches alumni achievement medals for anniversary
- Perfect Graph Theorem in Science Magazine