Congratulations
to
Professor Paul Seymour,
who, with his co-authors,
Maria Chudnovsky, Neil Robertson, and Robin Thomas
has been awarded the
2009 Fulkerson Prize!

The Fulkerson Prize is sponsored by the Mathematical Programming Society and the American Mathematical Society. The prize includes a $1,500 cash award. The award ceremony took place Sunday, August 23, 2009, in Chicago, during the opening session of the 20th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming. The Prize was awarded to them for their paper, "The strong perfect graph theorem."