Dominic Welsh

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

Welsh received his doctorate at the University of Oxford with John Hammersley, was in 1961 at Bell Laboratories before he went back to the University of Oxford in 1963. In 1966 he became a Fellow of Merton College (where he was tutor ) and Lecturer. In 1992 he was awarded a personal chair (ad hominem professor ) and in 2005 he retired. 1976 to 1978 he was Chairman of the Department of Mathematics. He was a 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, a visiting scientist at the CRM in Barcelona ( 2006/ 07) and John von Neumann Professor at the University of Bonn (1990 /91).

1983 to 1987 he was president of the British Combinatorial Society. In 2006 he became an honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo. He was from 1972 to 1976 in the Council of the London Mathematical Society.

Writings

  • 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, colorings and Counting, London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes, Vol 186, Oxford University Press 1993
  • With John Talbot: Complexity and Cryptography: an introduction, Cambridge University Press 2006
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