Jim Geelen
| Jim 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 |
Jim 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 with his co-authors A. M. H. Gerards, and A. Kapoor for their research on Rota's excluded minors conjecture.[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] After brief postdoctoral fellowships in the Netherlands, Germany, and Japan, he returned to the University of Waterloo in 1997.[6]
References
- ↑ Jim Geelen at the Canada Research Chairs website.
- ↑ 2003 Fulkerson Prize citation, retrieved 2012-08-18.
- ↑ Geelen, James F.; Gerards, A. M. H.; Kapoor, Ajai (2000), "The Excluded Minors for GF(4)-Representable Matroids" (PDF), J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B, 79 (2): 247–299, doi:10.1006/jctb.2000.1963
- ↑ Winners of the Coxeter–James Prize.
- ↑ Jim Geelen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ↑ "2006 Coxeter James Prize" (PDF).