Combinatorics at Georgia Tech

The combinatorics group in the School of Mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology has close ties to the College of Computing and the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Several faculty members hold joint appointments in more than one of these units, and all three departments jointly administer the interdisciplinary PhD program in Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization (ACO). Students specializing in Combinatorics can study either in the ACO program, or in the mathematics PhD program.

Research interests of Combinatorics faculty include algebraic and enumerative combinatorics, hypergraphs and extremal problems, probabilistic methods, graph theory, algorithms, combinatorial optimization, partially ordered sets, application to operations research and theoretical computer science.

Two weekly seminars serve the combinatorics community: the Combinatorics seminar features talks on all aspects of combinatorics and its applications, while the more focused Graph theory seminar runs for the benefit of students specializing in that field.

Please visit the web pages of individual faculty to find out their specific research interests.

Faculty in Combinatorics

Mihai Ciucu, Associate Professor
ciucu@math.gatech.edu
(404)-894-3953, Skiles 222
University of Michigan, Ph.D., 1996
Algebraic Combinatorics

William J. Cook, Adjunct Professor [Joint with ISyE]
(404)-385-4179, ISyE 446
Combinatorial Optimization
Integer Programming

Ernie Croot, Assistant Professor
ecroot@math.gatech.edu
University of Georgia, Ph. D., 2000
Number Theory, Combinatorics, and Theoretical Computer Science

Richard A. Duke, Professor
duke@math.gatech.edu
(404)-894-5365, Skiles 128
University of Virginia, Ph.D., 1965
Combinatorics
Graph Theory

Dana Randall, Associate Professor [Adjunct]
randall@math.gatech.edu
(404)-894-1833, Skiles 258 & CoC/894-3156
University of California-Berkeley, Ph.D., 1994
Rapidly Mixing Markov Chains
Combinatorics
Randomized Algorithims
Computational Physics

Prasad Tetali, Associate Professor [Joint with CoC]
tetali@math.gatech.edu
(404)-894-9238, Skiles 126
Courant Institute, Ph.D., 1991
Applied Probability
Combinatorics
Graph Theory
Algorithms and Complexity Theory

Robin Thomas, Professor
thomas@math.gatech.edu
(404)-894-2733, Skiles 217B
Charles University, Ph.D., 1985
Combinatorics
Graph Theory
Discrete Mathematics

Xingxing Yu, Professor
yu@math.gatech.edu
(404)-894-4757, Skiles 217B
Vanderbilt University, Ph.D., 1990
Graph Theory
Algorithms
Low Dimensional Topology
Coding Theory
Discrete Optimization Also see the web pages for related faculty in

algebra and
mathematical physics, as well as
the degree program in algorithms, combinatorics, and optimization, which is joint with Georgia Tech's School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and College of Computing

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