Dr. Rachel Kirsch
Department of Mathematics
Iowa State University
kirsch at iastate.edu
I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the National Science Foundation Research Training Group in Combinatorics, Computation, and Applications. My research is in combinatorics and graph theory, especially enumerative and extremal graph theory, combinatorics on words, universal cycles, and crossing numbers.
Published/Accepted
G. Araujo-Pardo, Z. Berikkyzy, J. Faudree, K. Hogenson, R. Kirsch, L. Lesniak, and J. McDonald. "Finding long cycles in balanced tripartite graphs: a first step." In D. Ferrero et al. (eds), Research Trends in Graph Theory and Applications, Association for Women in Mathematics Series (in production). Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland (2021).
R. Kirsch and A. J. Radcliffe. "Many cliques with few edges." Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, January 2021. [arXiv]
R. Kirsch and A. J. Radcliffe. "Maximizing the density of K_t's in graphs of bounded degree and clique number." Discrete Mathematics, June 2020. [arXiv]
R. Kirsch and A. J. Radcliffe. "Many triangles with few edges." Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, May 2019. [arXiv]
B. Bjorkman, G. Cochran, W. Gao, L. Keough, R. Kirsch, M. Phillipson, D. Rorabaugh, H. Smith, and J. Wise. "k-Foldability of words." Discrete Applied Mathematics, April 2019. [arXiv]
K. Boyer, B. Brimkov, S. English, D. Ferrero, A. Keller, R. Kirsch, M. Phillips, and C. Reinhart. "The zero forcing polynomial of a graph." Discrete Applied Mathematics, April 2019. [arXiv]
B. Goeckner, C. Groothuis, C. Hettle, B. Kell, P. Kirkpatrick, R. Kirsch, and R. Solava. "Universal partial words over non-binary alphabets." Theoretical Computer Science, February 2018. [arXiv]
F. Blanchet-Sadri, M. Cordier, and R. Kirsch. "Border correlations, lattices, and the subgraph component polynomial." European Journal of Combinatorics, February 2018.
T. Feng, R. Kirsch, E. Villela, and M. Wage. "Birth-death processes and q-continued fractions." Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, May 2012.
Submitted
C. Camacho, S. Fernández-Merchant, M. Jelić Milutinović, R. Kirsch, L. Kleist, E. Matson, and J. White. "Bounding the tripartite-circle crossing number of complete tripartite graphs."