Contact info
Name: Patrick Bennett
Email: patrick.bennett@wmich.edu
Office: Moore 2067
About me
I am an Associate Professor in the Math Department at Western Michigan University. In 2013 I finished my Ph.D. in Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization advised by Tom Bohman at Carnegie Mellon University. From 2013-15 I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Toronto, supervised by Mike Molloy. Since 2015 I have been at WMU.
Here is my CV.
Lake Michigan Workshop
Andrzej Dudek and I are organizing the 9th Lake Michigan Workshop April 13-14, 2024.
Research
My research is in probabilistic and extremal combinatorics. I specialize in the design and analysis of randomized combinatorial algorithms. Usually the goal is to prove the existence of some object with interesting properties (e.g. extremal properties) by arguing that it is the likely output of a random algorithm. Of course the challenge is to design an algorithm that performs well subject to the constraint that this algorithm must be possible to analyze rigorously.
My preprints can be found on arXiv.
My published papers can be found on MathSciNet.
Funding
Simons Foundation Collaboration Grant for Mathematicians (PI): 2016-21 and 2021-26
National Science Foundation Conference Grant (Co-PI): 2017, 2018, 2019
Faculty Research and Creative Activities Award (PI): 2018-19