Michael Tait mtait at math dot ucsd dot edu

Research
I am a first year PhD student in the Department of Mathematics at UCSD. I am interested in discrete mathematics, which means that I like to count things (sometimes more than once!). I am interested in everything about graph theory, including information from eigenvalues, hypergraphs, graph partitioning and covering problems, and applications of graph theory in computer science. My M. Sc. advisor was Sebastian Cioaba and my thesis was titled The Alon-Saks-Seymour and Rank-Coloring Conjectures. For more information, please see my CV.

Teaching
Summer assignment TBD!

Publications
More Counterexamples to the Alon-Saks-Seymour and Rank-Coloring Conjectures. Published in the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, Feb. 2011, co-authored with Sebastian Cioaba.

The Alon-Saks-Seymour and Rank-Coloring Conjectures. M.Sc. Thesis, University of Delaware, 2011.

Variations on a theme of Graham and Pollak. Submitted to Discrete Mathematics. Co-authored with Sebastian Cioaba.

About Me
Besides mathematics, some things that I like are running, cycling, going to the batting cages, the soggy bottom boys, reading, and Frank and Andy Schleck. I grew up in Wilmington, DE and attended Concord High School where I participated in basketball, wrestling, cross-country, track and field, and math league. I then ran collegiate track for 4 years and am a University of Delaware record holder in the outdoor 4x800m relay (7:32.89) and the indoor Distance Medley Relay (9:50.12). My NCAA eligibility being up, I am now pursuing my athletic interests on the UCSD Cycling Team. I did some math along the way as well.