Simona Boyadzhiyska

Postdoc at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics

About me

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics  working in extremal combinatorics. My supervisors are János Pach and Gábor Tardos. Much of my work so far has been in Ramsey theory, but I enjoy thinking about other problems as well.

Until October 2024, I was a research fellow at the University of Birmingham. My supervisor was Allan Lo. I was supported by the EPSRC grant "Ramsey theory: an extremal perspective."

I completed my PhD at the Freie Universität Berlin under the supervision of Tibor Szabó in 2022. The title of my thesis was "Minimal Ramsey graphs, orthogonal Latin squares, and hyperplane coverings." I was a member of the Berlin Mathematical School and the RTG "Facets of Complexity."

Office: Turán

Email: simona at renyi dot hu

The Cyrillic spelling of my name is Симона Бояджийска. Here is how to pronounce it.

Research

You can find my Google Scholar profile here.

Publications

Discrete Applied Mathematics, 360, 506-511

Preprints

Conference proceedings

Talks

Past

Here is a list of my most recent talks:

10th Polish Combinatorial Conference, Będlewo, Poland

Teaching

In Autumn '23 I taught one quarter of the Advanced Topics in Combinatorics course for fourth-year students at UoB. The topic was "Extremal combinatorics meets finite geometry."  I also organized the Combinatorics Reading Group in the same semester, focusing on the Container Method.

In the past, I have been a TA for Discrete Mathematics I at FU Berlin and a tutor for various courses in Mathematics and Computer Science during my undergraduate studies at Wellesley College. I have also assisted with the Discrete Mathematics student seminars at FU Berlin, helping students prepare for their talks.

Activities and outreach

In March 2024, I co-organized the Spring Day of Combinatorics at the University of Birmingham together with Allan Lo.

During my Master's and PhD at the Berlin Mathematical School, I served as a Student Representative for a year, co-organized the 7th BMS Student Conference, and was involved in the organization of the "What is...?" student seminar. 

I'm passionate about teaching mathematics and enjoy participating in outreach activities and helping people learn a bit about what research in mathematics is like. Together with my colleagues from FU Berlin, I co-organized workshops (in German!) for Girls'Day in 2019 (on proofs of impossibility), 2021 (on randomness and human intuition), and 2022 (on positional games). In 2022, we also hosted two high-school students for an afternoon, as part of their "Praktikum."