Robert (Rob) Morris is a mathematician who works in

combinatorics Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and an end in obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures. It is closely related to many other areas of mathematics and has many appl ...

, probability, graph theory and Ramsey theory. He is a researcher at IMPA. In 2015, Morris was awarded the European Prize in Combinatorics for "his profound results in extremal and probabilistic combinatorics particularly for his result on independent sets in hypergraphs which found immediately several applications in additive number theory and combinatorics, such as the solution of old problem of

Erdős Erdős, Erdos, or Erdoes is a Hungarian surname. People with the surname include: * Ágnes Erdős (born 1950), Hungarian politician * Brad Erdos (born 1990), Canadian football player * Éva Erdős (born 1964), Hungarian handball player * Józse ...

and for establishing tight bounds for Ramsey numbers, and also on random cellular automata and bootstrap problems in percolation." In 2016, he was one of the winners of the

George Pólya Prize The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) has three prizes named after George Pólya: the George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition, established in 2013; the George Pólya Prize in Applied Combinatorics, established in 1969 ...

. He graduated with a Ph.D. from

The University of Memphis } The University of Memphis (UofM) is a public university, public research university in Memphis, Tennessee. Founded in 1912, the university has an enrollment of more than 22,000 students. The university maintains the Herff College of Engineering ...

in 2006 under the supervision of Béla Bollobás. He was awarded the 2018 Fulkerson Prize. Also in 2018, he was an invited speaker at the

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...

in Rio de Janeiro.

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