Robin Thomas (mathematician)

Robin Thomas
Born(1962-08-22)August 22, 1962[1]
Prague, Czechoslovakia
DiedMarch 26, 2020(2020-03-26) (aged 57)[2]
Alma materCharles University
AwardsFulkerson Prize
Karel Janeček Foundation Neuron Prize
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsGeorgia Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorJaroslav Nešetřil

Robin Thomas (August 22, 1962 – March 26, 2020) was a mathematician working in graph theory at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Thomas received his doctorate in 1985 from Charles University in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), under the supervision of Jaroslav Nešetřil.[3] He joined the faculty at Georgia Tech in 1989, and became a Regents' Professor there,[4][5] briefly serving as the department Chair.

On March 26, 2020, he died of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis at the age of 57 after 12 years of struggle with the illness.[2][6]

  1. ^ Cremation Society of Georgia: Robin Thomas
  2. ^ a b Fortnow, Lance (March 28, 2020). "Robin Thomas". Computational Complexity.
  3. ^ Robin Thomas at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  4. ^ Author biography from Berg, Deborah E.; Norine, Serguei; Su, Francis Edward; Thomas, Robin; Wollan, Paul (2008). "Voting in agreeable societies". arXiv:0811.3245 [math.CO]..
  5. ^ Robin Thomas Earns Distinction, Named Regents' Professor, Georgia Tech College of Computing, June 24, 2010.
  6. ^ Robin Thomas tribute, Georgia Tech Mathematics, April 7, 2020.