Jim Geelen

Jim Geelen
Alma mater	University of Waterloo
Awards	Fulkerson Prize
Scientific career
Fields	Combinatorial optimization
Institutions	University of Waterloo
Doctoral advisor	William H. Cunningham

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

1. Jim Geelen at the Canada Research Chairs website.
2. 2003 Fulkerson Prize citation, retrieved 2012-08-18.
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. Winners of the Coxeter–James Prize.
5. Jim Geelen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
6. "2006 Coxeter James Prize" (PDF).