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Oleg Pikhurko Department of Mathematical Sciences Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890   Phone: +1-412-268-9827 Phone: +1-412-268-2545(Dept Secretaries) Fax: +1-412-268-6380

Academic Information

• Main research interests:
  • Extremal (hyper)graphs
  • Ramsey theory
  • Probabilistic methods in combinatorics
  • Algebraic methods in combinatorics
     
    
• Publications (with online preprints and my PhD thesis)
   
  
• Both my Erdös Number and Erdös Lap Number are 2.
   
  
• Short CV:

  08/03-	Assistant and Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
  10/00-08/03	Research Fellow, St.John's College, Cambridge
  10/95-01/00	Certificate of Advanced Study and PhD Degree in Mathematics, Cambridge University
  09/90-06/95	Diploma in Mathematics, L'viv State University

• Suggested changes to the copyright transfer practice ( Some new developments as of Sep'2007)
  
  
• The Puzzle Toad
  
  
• Past and present PhD students
• Teresa Sousa (2006)
• David Offner
• Zelealem Yilma
  
  
• Past and present committees, etc
• WaterMellon Workshop on Extremal Graph Theory, Pittsburgh, May 21-23, 2005 (co-organizer Cliff Smyth)
• (Your Regular) Workshop on Extremal Graphs and Hypergraphs, Pittsburgh, May 5-6, 2007 (co-organizer David Offner)
• Berkman Faculty Development Fund Committee, CMU
  

Teaching

• Fall Semester 2008:
  
• 21-701 "Discrete Mathematics", MW 3:30-4:50pm, WEH 5328, course handouts
  
  
• Previous courses:
  
  
• Carnegie Mellon University:
  21-241 "Matrix Algebra",
  21-228 "Discrete Mathematics",
  21-295 "Putnam Seminar",
  21-301 "Combinatorics"
  21-499 "Undergraduate Research Topics in Discrete Mathematics",
  21-601 "Algebra",
  21-701 "Discrete Mathematics",
  21-801 "Algebraic Methods in Combinatorics",
  21-801 "The Probabilistic Method",
  21-801 "Extremal Combinatorics with Applications in Computer Science",
  21-801 "Ramsey Theory"
  
  
• Cambridge University:
  Supervising: "Combinatorics", "Graph Theory", "Probability Theory", "Numbers and Sets"
  Lecturing: "Algebraic Methods in Combinatorics" (graduate course). Lecture notes can be downloaded here.
  
  

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