Institute of Combinatorics
About the Institute of Combinatorics
The combinatorics and graph theory group at the University of Memphis has been a unique, highly productive and active research unit since the early 1970s when the group began a collaborative relationship with Paul Erdős. This collaboration spanned two decades and resulted in the seminal members becoming some of his most frequent coauthors. The momentum continued with the establishment in 1995 of the Jabie Hardin Chair of Excellence in Graph Theory and Combinatorics, together with a rotating visiting senior faculty position. This has lead to an extremely effective group, both in research and in the mentoring of the next generation of students for academic and industry research opportunities in this dynamic field.
The Institute of Combinatorics brings together faculty, visitors, postdocs, students, and staff to provide a world class research group in combinatorics and graph theory.
Contact Information
Tricia Simmons, Project Coordinator for Béla Bollobás, the Jabie Hardin Chair of Excellence in Combinatorics
Email: tdsimmns@memphis.edu
Phone: 901.678.5610
Fax: 901.678.4481
The Erdős Lecture Series
The Erdős Lecture Series is a conference held almost every year at the University of Memphis in honor of the department's long relationship with Paul Erdős.
Unfortunately, due to funding difficulties, the 2015 Erdős Lecture Series was cancelled.
Links to posters and websites for previous conferences:
- 2019 Erdős Lecture Series Website
- 2014 Erdős Lecture Series Website
- 2012 Erdős Lecture Series Poster
- 2008 Erdős Lecture Series Poster
- 2007 Erdős Lecture Series Poster
- 2004 Erdős Lecture Series Poster
- 2003 Erdős Lecture Series Poster
- 2002 Erdős Lecture Series Poster
- 2001 Erdős Lecture Series Poster
Research Focus
The main areas of focus are extremal and probabilistic combinatorics, general graph theory, applications of linear algebra to graph theory, and additive number theory.
Seminars
The Institute of Combinatorics typically holds seminars on Fridays at 3pm.
Members
Paul Balister, Former Professor
Research Interests: Probabilistic combinatorics, random geometric graphs
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Robert Morris. The sharp threshold for making squares. Annals of Math. 188 (2018), no. 1, 49–143.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Robert Morris, Julian Sahasrabudhe, Marius Tiba. The Erdős–Selfridge problem with square-free moduli.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Robert Morris, Julian Sahasrabudhe, Marius Tiba. Flat Littlewood Polynomials Exist.
Béla Bollobás, Professor; Jabie Hardin Chair of Excellence in Combinatorics
Research Interests: Probabilistic Combinatorics, Graph Theory, Functional analysis
David Grynkiewicz, Associate Professor
Research Interests: Additive number theory, Extremal combinatorics
- Iterated sumsets and setpartitions. To appear in Ramanujan J.
- Iterated sumsets and subsequence sums. J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 160 (2018), 136–167.
- Planar subsets with small doubling. Q. J. Math. 68 (2017), no. 1, 161–192.
Chao Liu, Faudree Postdoc
Research Interests: Combinatorial Number Theory, Additive Combinatorics
Vladimir Nikiforov, Professor
Research Interests: Extremal graph theory, applications of linear algebra to graph theory