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Jim Geelen

Jim Geelen

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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]

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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]

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  1. [1]
    Jim Geelen at the Canada Research Chairs website.
  2. [2]
    2003 Fulkerson Prize citation, retrieved 2012-08-18.
  3. [3]
    Geelen, J. F.; Gerards, A. M. H.; Kapoor, A. (2000), "The Excluded Minors for GF(4)-Representable Matroids", Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, 79 (2): 247–299, doi:10.1006/jctb.2000.1963
  4. [4]
    Winners of the Coxeter–James Prize.
  5. [5]
    Jim Geelen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  6. [6]
    "2006 Coxeter James Prize" (PDF).


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