Michael Tait

Hello! I am an assistant associate professor in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at Villanova University. I grew up a few miles south in Wilmington before doing graduate school at UC San Diego and a postdoc at Carnegie Mellon. Besides math, I spend my time exercising, cooking and eating, reading, watching baseball, enjoying Philadelphia, representing PRTC, grappling, and most importantly hanging out with this mathematician and her recent collaborator .

My research is in extremal combinatorics, mostly in extremal and spectral graph theory and combinatorial number theory.  See my research page or arxiv for my papers. My research is partially supported by NSF award DMS-2245556 (Spectral and extremal graph theory). In 2023, I was awarded the Richard A Brualdi Early Career Prize by the International Linear Algebra Society.

You might see me at the following upcoming meetings:

• • AMS Fall Eastern Sectional (October 3-4,  George Washington University)  🏛️🏛️🏛️

  • AMS Fall Central Sectional (October 24-25, University of Minnesota, Duluth) 🌲❄️🐺🏒🏞

  • AMS Fall Western Sectional (November 7-8, Arizona State University)🏜️🏜️🏜️

  • Extremal graph and hypergraph theory (December 14-18, Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum) 🇨🇳🏖️🌅🌊🧧

  • 2027 Joint Math Meetings (January 12-15, Chicago)🐄🐄🐄

  • SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra (May 24–28, Long Beach)🏄🏽🏄🏽🏄🏽

  • CanaDAM (June 14-18, Kelowna, BC, Canada) 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

  • Slovenian Conference on Graph Theory (June 20-26, Slovenia) 🚨🚨🚨

  • PIMS-BIRS Team Up! Spectral theory beyond regular graphs (August 29-September 12, either Banff or Kelowna)🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

  • Your seminar?? 🤓🤓🤓

If you want to know more about my professional life before coming to Villanova, or if you are preparing to be on the job market, I am happy to share documents that I have written. Please email me and I will send you any subset of: teaching statement, research statement, NSF postdoc proposal, 2 NSF standard grant proposals.

You may also feel free to use the following lecture notes for a course  in linear algebra or combinatorics (this version includes a chapter on generating functions)