Dominic Welsh
James Anthony Dominic Welsh is an English mathematician, an emeritus professor of Oxford University's Mathematical Institute. He is an expert in matroid theory, the computational complexity of combinatorial enumeration problems, percolation theory, and cryptography.Biography
Welsh obtained his DPhil from Oxford University under the supervision of John Hammersley. After working as a researcher at Bell Laboratories, he joined the Mathematical Institute in 1963, and became a fellow of Merton College, Oxford in 1966. He chaired the British Combinatorial Committee from 1983 to 1987. Welsh was given a personal chair in 1992, and retired in 2005. He supervised 28 doctoral students.Books
- Matroid Theory
- Probability: An Introduction
- Codes and Cryptography
- Complexity: Knots, Colourings and Counting
- Complexity and Cryptography: An Introduction
Awards and honours
Welsh received an honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo in 2006.
In 2007, Oxford University press published Combinatorics, Complexity, and Chance: A Tribute to Dominic Welsh, an edited volume of research papers dedicated to Welsh.
The Russo–Seymour–Welsh estimate in percolation theory is partly named after Welsh.
