David Offner
August 2009: I am now an Assistant Professor in the Westmister College Department
of
Mathematics and Computer Science.
Please visit my current page here.
Below you will find the content of this page as of May 2009:
Contact Information
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
office: ppb
342
office phone: 412-268-1447
fax: 412-268-6380
email: offner AT cmu DOT edu
Research
I study extremal combinatorics. In particular, I have been
studying Turán type problems on the hypercube. Here are
some of my results.
Polychromatic
colorings of subcubes of the hypercube, SIAM J. Discrete Math.,
Vol. 22, No. 2 (2008), pp. 450–454.
preprint: (pdf)
Some
Turán type results on the hypercube, Discrete Math. Vol.
309, 9 (2009), pp. 2905-2912.
preprint (pdf)
Turán type problems and polychromatic colorings on the hypercube
(powerpoint presentation)
Teaching
Positive feedback from students (view as a Wordle)
Conferences
- WaterMellon
Workshop
on Extremal Graph Theory, University of Waterloo,
Waterloo, ON, May 21-23, 2009
- 2009 AMS
Spring Central Sectional Meeting, Urbana, IL, March 27-29,
2009
- Paul Erdös Memorial Lecture Series, University of Memphis,
Memphis, TN, March
28-29,
2008
- (Your Regular) Workshop
on Extremal Graphs and Hypergraphs, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA, May 5-6, 2007
- Paul Erdös Memorial Lecture Series, University of Memphis,
Memphis, TN, March
23-24, 2007
- US - Hungarian
Workshop on Large-Scale Random Graph Methods for Modeling
Mesoscopic Behavior in Biological and Physical Systems, Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary, August 28 - September 4, 2006
- Paul Erdös Memorial Lecture Series, University of Memphis,
Memphis, TN, March 24-25,
2006
- Frieze
Fest
2005, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Oct 21-22, 2005
- WaterMellon
Workshop on Extremal Graph Theory, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA, May 21-23, 2005
Seminars