Research

Publications

Counting Hats with the Lopsided Lovász Local Lemma
In progress

Pruning Techniques for Subgraph Isomorphism Using Matchings and Vertex Cuts
with Andrew Meier and Thomas Schuler
In progress

Enumeration of Regular Uniform Hypergraphs by Girth
with Linyuan Lu and László Székely
In progress

Mastery-Based Exams in Undergraduate Mathematics
with many others
Submitted to PRIMUS

Analogies Between the Crossing Number and the Tangle Crossing Number
with many others
Submitted to Electronic Journal of Combinatorics

Connected Balanced Subgraphs in Random Regular Multigraphs Under the Configuration Model
with Linyuan Lu and László Székely
Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing 86, 2013

Quest for Negative Dependency Graphs
with Linyuan Lu and László Székely
Recent Advances in Harmonic Analysis and Applications (in honor of Konstantin Oskolkov), Springer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics 25, 2013, 243 - 258

Applications of Stirling Numbers Involving Chromatic Polynomials
with Thomas Porter
Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing 70, 2009, 57 - 64

Some Applications of Spanning Trees in K(s,t)
with Lane Clark and Thomas Porter
Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing 62, 2007, 139 - 146

 

Unpublished Work

Doctoral Dissertation (2013)

Negative Dependency Graphs in Spaces of Random Matchings (2011)

Master's Thesis (2008)

Abstraction Techniques for Markov Decision Processes (2008)

A Survey of Zero-Knowledge Proofs with Applications to Cryptography (2007)

Quantum Computing in Complexity Theory and Theory of Computation (2007)

 

Presentations

Lovász Local Lemma and Related

Mastery-Based Exams Are Self-Evidently Better Than Traditional Exams

The Probabilistic Method

Order from Chaos (Math Circle on Ramsey Numbers)

Beyond Infinity (The Uncountability of the Reals)

 

Student Conference Presentations

Spanning Subgraph Isomorphism
Andrew Meier and Thomas Schuler
2016 MAA MathFest

Classification and Generation of Spanning Trees by Isomorphism
Andrew Meier
2016 Joint Mathematics Meetings

Palindromic nth Power Sums
Ann Marie Murray
2016 Joint Mathematics Meetings

Subgraph Isomorphism: Spanning Trees in Graphs
Thomas Schuler
2016 Joint Mathematics Meetings

 

Miscellaneous

Mastery-Based Testing in Undergraduate Mathematics Blog (with many others)

Spanning Subgraph Isomorphism in Sage (courtesy Andrew Meier and Thomas Schuler)

Images of Unlabeled Spanning Trees in Sage (courtesy Andrew Meier)

Miscellaneous Images of Unlabeled Spanning Trees

Pi-Base (courtesy James Dabbs)

Stirling Number Calculator

Mathematics StackExchange Profile

 

Graduate Coursework

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Abstract Algebra

Computational Complexity

Discrete Geometry

Discrete Mathematics I

Discrete Mathematics II

Extremal Graph Theory

Galois Theory

General Topology I

General Topology II

Graph Theory I

Graph Theory II

Linear Algebra Methods in Combinatorics

Measure Theory

Priestley's Representation Theorem

Probability Theory I

Probability Theory II

Set Theoretic Topology