David P. Robbins Prize
The Robbins Prize is for a paper with the following characteristics: it shall report on novel research in algebra, combinatorics or discrete mathematics and shall have a significant experimental component; and it shall be on a topic which is broadly accessible and shall provide a simple statement of the problem and clear exposition of the work.
Prize Details
The US$5,000 prize is awarded every three years.
Next Prize
January 2013
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Most Recent Prize: 2010
Ileana Streinu, of Smith College, was awarded the 2010 award for her paper “Pseudo-triangulations, rigidity and motion planning”, Discrete Comput. Geom. 34 (2005), no. 4, 587–635.
About this Prize
This prize was established in 2005 in memory of David P. Robbins by members of his family. Robbins, who died in 2003, received his Ph.D. in 1970 from MIT. He was a long-time member of the Institute for Defense Analysis Center for Communications Research and a prolific mathematician whose work (much of it classified) was in discrete mathematics.
Previous Prizes
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Photo courtesy of Ken Robbins.
