My name is Nicholas Crawford, and I am currently an Adjunct Professor in the department of Mathematics at Los Medanos College.  I received my PhD in May 2025 from the University of Colorado Denver under the supervision of Dr. Florian Pfender and Dr. Steffen Borgwardt. I received my BS in Mathematics from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 2018 and my MS in Applied Mathematics from San Jose State University in 2020 under Dr Sogal Jahanbekam. My current research interests are graph coloring, extremal combinatorics, and applied graph theory. I am currently on the job market.