Sean English

About Me: I received my PhD in 2018 from Western Michigan University under the advisement of Andrzej Dudek. After that, I did a 1-year postdoc at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) in the Graphs@Ryerson group, and then did a 3-year postdoc at the University of Illinois. Since Fall 2022, I have been an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. I co-organize the Combinatorics and Probability Seminar at UNCW, and we are always looking for speakers, so if you'd like to give a talk, please contact me! I also am on the steering committee for the Triangle Lectures in Combinatorics.

My interest in mathematics is mainly in the field of combinatorics. In particular, I am interested in extremal and probabilistic combinatorics, and also graph searching. While I enjoy a wide range of problems, the type of problem that has most caught my fancy are saturation problems for sparse hypergraphs, but I have also done work in many other areas of discrete mathematics.

When I am not doing math, you may find me running, riding my bicycle, or collecting vintage video games. Also, I have two very cute cats, named Aristotle and Erdős, pictured below (I may have also snuck in a picture of the pumpkins from my last pumpkin carving party).