Combinatorialists
in the Northeast
Learn more about combinatorialists in the US Northeast!
(All members of the NCN are encouraged to submit a short bio here)
Elie Alhajjar (website)
Department of Mathematical Sciences
United States Military Academy
Interests: Polyhedral geometry; Ehrhart theory, numerical semigroups
2010 Mathematics Subject Classifications: 05Axx, 52Bxx, 11Axx.
Amir Barghi (website)
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Saint Michael's College
Interests: Algebraic and probabilistic graph theory; enumerative combinatorics; stochastic processes
2010 AMS Subject Classifications: 05C15, 05C31, 05C57, 05C80, 05C81.
Michael D. Barrus (website)
Department of Mathematics
University of Rhode Island
Interests: Structural and extremal graph theory.
2010 AMS Subject Classifications: 05C07, 05C75, 05C17, 05C50.
Sarah-Marie Belcastro (website)
Mathematical Staircase, Inc.
Director of MathILy and Research Associate at Smith College
Interests: topological graph theory, edge colorings.
2010 Mathematics Subject Classifications: 05C15, 05C10, 52B05.
Padraig Ó Catháin (website)
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Interests: Design theory, Hadamard matrices, permutation groups and applications to communications systems.
2010 Mathematics Subject Classifications: 05Bxx, 20Bxx.
Peter Christopher (website)
Mathematical Sciences Department
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Interests: Graph theory, combinatorics, linear algebra, automorphism groups of graphs.
2010 AMS Subject Classifications: 05Axx, 05Cxx, 05Exx
Laura Colmenarejo (website)
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Interests: Symmetric functions; structure coefficients; representation theory of finite groups; Schubert polynomials.
2010 Mathematics Subject Classifications:
05E05, 05A05, 05A19, 20C30, 14M15.
Robert Davis (website)
Department of Mathematics
Colgate University
Interests: Ehrhart theory; discrete geometry; combinatorial commutative algebra; enumerative combinatorics; applications to algebraic geometry.
2010 AMS Subject Classifications: 52B20; 05E40; 05A15.
Sergi Elizalde (website)
Department of Mathematics
Dartmouth College
Interests: Enumerative combinatorics, especially permutations, pattern avoidance, lattice paths, bijections; applications to dynamical systems and biology.
AMS Subject Codes: 05Axx, 05Exx
Joanna Ellis-Monaghan (Jo) (website)
Department of Mathematics and Statistics (Chair)
Saint Michael's College
Interests: Algebraic combinatorics, especially graph polynomials, and applied graph theory in DNA self-assembly, statistical mechanics, computer chip design and bioinformatics.
2010 Mathematics Subject Classifications: 05C31, 05C10, 05C90, 05C45, 57M15, 57M25.
Joseph D. Fehribach (website)
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Interests: Graph Theory (particularly Kirchhoff graphs), reaction networks
2010 AMS Subject Classifications:
Jonathan L. Gross (website)
Professor Emeritus
Columbia University
Interests: 05C10 topological graph theory, esp. log-concavity of genus polynomials.
2010 Mathematics Subject Classifications:
Thomas C. Hull (Tom) (website)
Department of Mathematics
Western New England University
Interests: discrete geometry (especially as applied to origami (paper folding)), graph theory (especially graph colorings), rigidity.
2010 Mathematics Subject Classifications: 05C10, 05C15, 52C25, 53A17 .
William J. Martin (Bill) (website)
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Interests: Algebraic combinatorics (association schemes, coding theory, design theory); cryptography (homomorphic encryption, randomness).
2010 Mathematics Subject Classifications: 05E30, 05B30, 94B60; 68P25, 68Q15.
Carolyn Mayer (website)
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Interests: Error-correcting codes, graph-based codes, channel models, applications of combinatorics to coding theory.
2010 Mathematics Subject Classifications: 05C90, 94A40, 94Bxx, 94C15.
Alejandro H. Morales (website)
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Interests: Enumerative combinatorics (permutations, rook theory, q-analogues, factorizations), algebraic combinatorics (tableaux, symmetric functions, Schubert polynomials), discrete geometry (polytopes)
2010 Mathematics Subject Classifications: 05A15, 05A19, 52B05, 52A38.
Rosa Orellana (website)
Department of Mathematics
Dartmouth College
Interests: Algebraic combinatorics; combinatorial representation theory; centralizer and diagram algebras; the Kronecker product of two irreducible representations of the symmetric group and generalizations; combinatorial algebras, e.g., the descent algebras and peak algebras; symmetric functions; combinatorics of Coxeter groups; representations of braid groups; Hecke algebras; Birman-Murakami-Wenzl (BMW) algebras; combinatorial Hopf algebras; partition algebras; complex reflection groups; and tableaux algorithms.
2010 AMS Subject Classifications: 05Axx, 05Exx, 16Gxx, 16Txx, 20Bxx, 20Cxx
Gabor Sarkozy (website)
Department of Computer Science
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Interests: Graph theory, discrete mathematics, theoretical computer science
2010 AMS Subject Classifications: 05Cxx
John R. Schmitt (website)
Department of Mathematics
Middlebury College
Interests: (Extremal) combinatorics and (extremal) graph theory; the polynomial method; zero-sum combinatorics
2010 Mathematics Subject Classifications: 05C35, 05C07, 11T06.
Stanley M. Selkow (website)
Department of Computer Science (emeritus)
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Interests: Graph theory.
2010 Mathematics Subject Classifications:
Brigitte Servatius (website)
Mathematical Sciences and Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Interests: Matroid theory, computational geometry, rigidity of graphs, tensegrities, motions of molecules.
2010 AMS Subject Classifications: 05A15, 05B35, 05C10, 05C25, 05C40, 05C50, 05C62, 05C75.
Mark Wilson (website)
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Interests: asymptotic enumeration; generating functions; complex networks; theory of voting and electoral systems
2010 Mathematics Subject Classifications: 05A16; 05A15; 91B12; 05C82; 91D30.