Dominic Welsh

Dominic James Anthony Welsh (born August 29, 1938 ) is a British mathematician who deals with probability theory ( percolation theory ), combinatorics (theory of matroids ), complexity theory and cryptography .

Welsh received his PhD from Oxford University under John Hammersley , then was at Bell Laboratories in 1961 before returning to Oxford University in 1963. In 1966 he became a Fellow of Merton College (where he was a tutor) and lecturer . In 1992 he received a personal chair ( ad hominem professor ) and in 2005 he retired. From 1976 to 1978 he was Chairman of the Faculty of Mathematics. He was visiting professor at the University of Michigan (1968), the University of Waterloo (1969), the University of Calgary (1974), the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, visiting scholar at CRM in Barcelona (2006/07) and John von Neumann Professor at the University of Bonn (1990/91).

1983 to 1987 he was chairman of the British Combinatorial Committee. In 2006 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo . He served on the Council of the London Mathematical Society from 1972 to 1976.

Fonts

with Geoffrey Grimmett : Probability- an introduction , Oxford University Press 1986
Matroid Theory , London Mathematical Society Monographs, Volume 8, Academic Press 1976
Codes and Cryptography , Oxford University Press 1988
Complexity: Knots, Colors and Counting , London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes, Volume 186, Oxford University Press 1993
with John Talbot: Complexity and Cryptography: an introduction , Cambridge University Press 2006

literature

Geoffrey Grimmett, Colin McDiarmid (Editor) Combinatorics, Complexity and Chance , Oxford University Press 2007 (Festschrift for Dominic Welsh)

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personal data
SURNAME	Welsh, Dominic
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Welsh, Dominic James Anthony (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	August 29, 1938