D.R. Fulkerson Centennial Celebration

A Fitting Tribute

The program started with a general-audience public lecture highlighting the formative achievements of Fulkerson and his collaborators on foundations of both pure and computational mathematics in several important areas, as well as the profound real-world impact of Fulkerson’s work. This talk was followed by three more technical surveys that described progress in key areas to which he contributed: discrete optimization via integer programming; network flows; and extremal combinatorics, perfect graphs & related polyhedra.

We invited collaborators, students, colleagues of Fulkerson, and the subsequent generations of scholars in these areas whose work has been influenced by this foundational work, including all Cornell faculty, students over the years. It was a wonderful opportunity to reconnect in celebrating Fulkerson’s legacy.