About me

I am currently a research fellow at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics in Budapest. 

I completed my Phd at the University of Birmingham in 2024, under the supervision of Eoin Long. Prior to that, I was an undergraduate student at the University of Oxford between 2016 and 2020. My passion for Combinatorics, however, started long before that, as I was engaging in math competitions and olympiads since my early school years. For more information, here is my CV.

My research interests lie in extremal and probabilistic combinatorics, with a particular focus on Ramsey problems.

Research work

Publications 

• Distinct Degrees and Homogeneous Sets (with Eoin Long),  Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B

• A bipartite version of the Erdős - McKay conjecture (with Eoin Long),  Combinatorics, Probability & Computing

• Distinct Degrees and Homogeneous Sets II  (with Eoin Long),  submitted

Talks and Presentations

• A bipartite version of the Erdős - McKay conjecture, LSE Seminar on Combinatorics, Games and Optimisation, London, March 2024

• A bipartite version of the Erdős - McKay conjecture, University of Bristol Combinatorics Seminar, October 2023

• Distinct Degrees and Homogeneous Sets, Random Structures and Algorithms, Gniezno, August 2022

• Distinct Degrees and Homogeneous Sets, University of Birmingham Combinatorics Seminar, March 2022  

Teaching, Volunteering and Other Activities

Member of the Organising Committee at Postgraduate Conference in Combinatorics (Birmingham, UK, 2022): 

Awards and Distinctions

Here are some highlights from my Olympiad years back in the school days:

• International Mathematical Olympiad - Silver Medal (Cape Town 2014  &  Hong Kong 2016)                                                                                                  - Coordinator (Cluj-Napoca 2018  &  Bath 2019)

• Balkan Mathematical Olympiad - Gold Medal with highest score (2012, 2013, 2014)     

                                                          - Silver Medal (2015)  

Contact information

• Office: 3em.3  

• Email: laurentiuploscaru@renyi.hu