{"59805":{"#nid":"59805","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Robin Thomas Earns Distinction, Named Regents\u0027 Professor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn granting him the title of Regents\u2019 Professor, the University System of Georgia\u2019s Board of Regents have added School of Mathematics Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.math.gatech.edu\/users\/thomas\/\u0022\u003ERobin Thomas\u003C\/a\u003E to its list of the state\u2019s premier educators.  Faculty promoted to the rank of Regents\u2019 Professor are recognized as the University System\u2019s intellectual and educational leaders.\n\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThomas, who joined Georgia Tech in 1989, specializes in the fields of graph theory and combinatorics, areas of mathematics with applications across a wide domain, from computer science and engineering to biology, economics, and social science.  He also directs the interdisciplinary program in \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.aco.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EAlgorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization (ACO)\u003C\/a\u003E, a joint effort of the College of Computing, the School of Mathematics, and the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering.\n\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cRobin has produced the sort of deep scholarship with important implications for science and technology that characterizes the work of our best faculty,\u201d said Doug Ulmer, chair of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.math.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Mathematics\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs evidence of a sustained career of groundbreaking work, Thomas and his collaborators have been awarded the Fulkerson Prize of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Programming Society twice, in 1994 and in 2009. This prize, the most prestigious in discrete mathematics, is awarded every three years. Thomas and his collaborators are the only multiple recipients of this prestigious prize.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cRobin is a first rate mathematician, a talented educator, and an immensely valuable colleague,\u201d Ulmer said. \u201cHis presence at Tech is a huge asset, and this Regents\u0027 Professorship is an entirely appropriate way to honor his accomplishments.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach academic year, the vice provost for Academic Affairs solicits the six college deans for Regents\u2019 Professorship candidates. Deans typically will submit one or two candidates, who must be full professors, for consideration. A selection committee, then makes its recommendation for candidates, which in turn are approved by the vice provost, the provost and the president.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I am very happy to receive this honor, but I should also stress the role of the great work environment here at Tech,\u0022 Thomas said. \u0022I would not have been able to accomplish nearly as much if not for the excellent colleagues, collaborators, postdocs, students and staff members that I have had the privilege to work with over the years. I am indebted to them for helping me achieve this honor, and hope to repay them by being a valuable colleague, collaborator, mentor and teacher.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn granting him the title of Regents\u2019 Professor, the University System of Georgia\u2019s Board of Regents have added School of Mathematics Professor Robin Thomas to its list of the state\u2019s premier educators.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Discrete mathematics expert recognized as one of the University System\u2019s intellectual and educational leaders"}],"uid":"27299","created_gmt":"2010-06-24 13:54:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:42","author":"Michael Hagearty","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-06-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-06-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"59806":{"id":"59806","type":"image","title":"Regents\u0027 Professor Robin Thomas","body":null,"created":"1449176227","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:57:07","changed":"1475894385","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:45","alt":"Regents\u0027 Professor Robin Thomas","file":{"fid":"190996","name":"p1492.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/p1492_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/p1492_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":50041,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/p1492_0.jpg?itok=D08hiltO"}}},"media_ids":["59806"],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"6010","name":"combinatorics"},{"id":"10176","name":"discrete mathematics"},{"id":"1506","name":"faculty"},{"id":"2748","name":"mathematics"},{"id":"105","name":"Robin Thomas"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EDavid Terraso\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-2966\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}