Trainees
The grant provides stipends for several graduate students each year. The stipends provides time for the students to work on research.
Postdoctoral Scholars
Bryan Curtis
Mentor Leslie Hogben
Interests combinatorial matrix theory
Emily Heath
Mentors Bernard Lidický and Ryan Martin
Interests questions in extremal combinatorics and graph theory
2023-2024 Students
Dustin Baker
Advisor Shira Zerbib (temporary)
Interests: Combinatorics and Graph Theory
Zachary Brennan
Advisors Leslie Hogben and David Herzog
Interests: graph theory, zero forcing, discrete mathematics
Enrique Gomez-Leos
Advisor Ryan Martin
Interests: extremal graph theory, probabilistic graph theory
Joe Miller
Advisor Sung-Yell Song (temporary)
Interests
Hope Pungello
Advisor Jennifer Newman (temporary)
Interests: graph theory, data science, and celestial mechanics
Nick Veldt
Advisor Ryan Martin
Interests: poset saturation and machine learning
2022-2023 Students
Kirin Martin
Advisor Steve Butler
Interested in DEI in mathematics; research involving sequences, existence/nonexistence questions, and graphical representations thereof; teaching undergraduate algebra, logic, and discrete math.
Daniel McGinnis
Advisor Shira Zerbib
Combinatorics and discrete geometry
Alex Parker
Advisor Bernard Lidicky (temporary)
Graph Theory
Coy Schwieder
Advisor Sung-Yell Song (temporary)
Graph Theory
2021-2022 Students
Caroline Bang
Advisor Bernard Lidický and Jonathan Smith
Interests Graph coloring and applications of flag algebras
https://math.iastate.edu/directory/caroline-bang/
Graduated 2023, First job Quantitative Model Analyst at US Bank
Zachary Brennan
Advisor Leslie Hogben (temporary)
Interests graph theory, zero forcing, discrete mathematics
Enrique Gomez-Leos
Advisor Ryan Martin (temporary)
Interests
Conor Thompson
Advisor Shira Zerbib (temporary)
Interests
2020-2021 Students
Dylan Fillmore
Advisor Jonas Hartwig
Kirin Martin
Advisor Steve Butler
Interested in DEI in mathematics; research involving sequences, existence/nonexistence questions, and graphical representations thereof; teaching undergraduate algebra, logic, and discrete math.
Daniel McGinnis
Advisor Shira Zerbib
Combinatorics and discrete geometry
Elizabeth Sprangel
Advisor Michael Young
Extremal graph theory, Ramsey theory, Rainbow problems, saturation, discrete mathematics
https://sites.google.com/iastate.edu/sprangel
Graduated in 2022, First job Data Scientist at Hennepin County
2019-2020 Students
Juergen Kritschgau
Advisor Michael Young
Graph theory, Ramsey theory, anti-Ramsey theory, Rainbow problems, saturation
https://www.jkritschgau.com/home
Graduated in spring 2021. First job Postrdoctorl Associate at Carnegie Mellon Universty.
Alex Neal Riasanovsky
Advisor Ryan Martin
extremal and probabilistic combinatorics, combinatorial limit theory, discrete mathematics
Graduated in spring 2021. First job Postrdoctorl Research Associate at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
Carolyn Reinhart
Advisor Leslie Hogben
spectral graph theory, distance matrices, graph search games, throttling
https://sites.google.com/view/carolyn-reinhart/home
Graduated in spring 2021. First job Visiting Assistant Professor at Swarthmore College.
Former postdocs
Chris Cox
Mentor Ryan Martin
Interplay between algebraic, geometric and probabilistic tools in extremal combinatorics
First job after RTG postdoctoral scholar at Aubrn University
Rachel Kirsch
2020-2021
Mentor Bernard Lidický
combinatorics and graph theory
https://mason.gmu.edu/~rkirsch4/
First job after RTG Assistant Professor (tenure track) at George Mason University.