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G. Neil Robertson’s 80th Birthday
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The Robertson Family
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G. Neil RobertsonBorn November 30, 1938
B.Sc. Brandon College (Manitoba) – 1959
Ph.D. U. Waterloo under Bill Tutte - 1969Professor at Ohio State since 1969
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G. Neil Robertson
1964 Conference at WaterlooDijen Ray-Chaudhuri, Neil, Bill Tutte, Dan Younger,
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The Robertson Family
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University of Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics Alumni Achievement Medal2002Neil Robertson (PhD 1969, Mathematics)Faculty member in the Department of Mathematics at Ohio State University (Columbus).
Winner for his academic accomplishments, particularly his pioneering work in graph theory and his profound influence in the area of combinatorics.
2012 Member of the Inaugural Class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
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2003 Ohio State University Distinguished Professor of the College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
1997Ohio State University Distinguished Scholar Award
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Delbert Ray Fulkerson Prize
2006 Neil Robertson, Paul D. Seymour, "Graph Minors XX. Wagner's conjecture", Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B 92, No 2, (2004), Pages 325-357.
1994 Neil Robertson, Paul D. Seymour, and Robin Thomas, "Hadwiger's conjecture for K6-free graphs", Combinatorica 13 (1993), 279-361.
2009 M. Chudnovsky, N. Robertson, P. Seymour, and R. Thomas, "The strong perfect graph theorem," Annals of Mathematics, 164 (2006) 51-229
George Pólya Prize2004 Neil Robertson, Paul D. Seymour
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Neil Robertson
#1 Paul Catlin
#2 Kamal
Chakravarti
#3Steve
Anaker
#4Ching-Hsieh
Shih
#5Robert
“Woody” Weaver
#6 Rick Vitray
#1-AHong-Jian
Lai
#1-BZhi-Hong
Chen
#1-CXiang-Ying
Su
#7 Bogdan
Oporowski
#8 Kiran
Chilakamarri
#9 Scott
Randby
#10Yue “Nick”
Zhao#11
Xiaoya Zha#12Jack
Dharmatilake
#13 John
Maharry
#14 Ciping Chen
#15 StelianMihalas
#16 Yared
Nigussie
#17 Xiangqian“Joe” Zhou
#18Eliade Micu
#19Christopher
McClain
#20 Christian Altomare
#21 Oguz Kurt
#22 Vaidy
Sivaraman
#7-BRobin
Blankenship
#7-AJohn
Dittman Jr.
#10-A Lisa Macon
#7-CEvan
Morgan
#1-A-1Mingquan
Zhan
#1-A-2Kamal
Hennayake
#1-A-3XiankunZhang
#1-A-4Bruce
Montgomery
#1-A-5Xiangwen Li
#1-A-6YehongShao
#1-A-7Ju Zhou
#1-A-8Huiya Yan
#1-A-9Hao LI
#1-A-10Ping Li
#1-A-11YantingLiang
#1-A-12Senmei Yao
#1-A-13Xiaofeng Gu
#1-A-5-AFan Yang
#1-A-14Jiaao Li
#1-A-15Murong Xu
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Paul Catlin (1948-1995)Embedding subgraphs and coloring graphs under extremal degree conditions (1976)
Kiran Chilakamarri (1953-2015)Unit-Distance Graphs In Euclidean Spaces (1990)
Jack Dharmatilake (1953-1994)Binary Matrices of Branch Width 3 (1994)
In Memoriam
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Neil and BojanBled Conference 1999
Somewhere in the 1990’s
Proof of the HadwigerConjecture for k=5
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Neil, Gisele and Robin1998
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Oberwolfach Conference 1999
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65th Birthday Conference 2003
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65th Birthday Conference 2003Robin Thomas, Neil and Yared Nigussie
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65th Birthday Conference 2003
Tom Zaslavsky and Tom DowlingNeil, Zi-xia Song, Guoli Ding, Paul Wollan, and the back of Xiaoya Zha’s head
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Neil at ICM in Korea 2014With Chris McClain, Sophie Burrill, Matt DeVos, Sang-il Oum, and O-joung Kwon.
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MIGHTY LVII at Wright State 2016
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Bogdan Oporowski and Neil
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Gisele and Neil (and James Oxley)
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Dan Cranston and Neil
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Dan Cranston and Neil