Ph.D. Students

    Current

  • Tian Liang, PhD Candidate, Penn.
    Interests: Algebraic and Geometric Combinatorics.

  • Meesue Yoo, PhD Candidate, Penn.
    Interests: Algebraic Combinatorics.

        Former

  • Dr. Mahir Can, PhD, Penn, May 2006.
    Thesis: "Nabla Operator and Combinatorial Aspects of Atiyah-Bott Lefschetz Theorem".
    Interests: Algebraic and Geometric Combinatorics, Algebraic Geometry.
    Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Western Ontario.
    Email: mcan at uwo.ca

  • Dr. Sarah Mason, PhD, Penn, May 2006.
    Thesis: "Nonsymmetric Schur Functions".
    Interests: Algebraic and Enumerative Combinatorics, Combinatorial Representation Theory.
    Current Position: Tenure-track Assistant Prof. of Math., Davidson College, and NSF Postdoctoral Fellow.

  • Dr. Fred Butler, PhD, Penn, May 2004.
    Thesis: "Cycle-Counting q-Rook Theory and other Generalizations of Classical Rook Theory".
    Interests: Algebraic and Enumerative Combinatorics.
    Current Position: Instructor, University of Baltimore.
    Email: fbutler2 at gmail.com

  • Dr. Chunwei Song, PhD, Penn, May 2004.
    Thesis: "Combinatorial Theory of q,t-Schroder Polynomials, Parking Functions and Trees".
    Interests: Algebraic and Enumerative Combinatorics, Graph Theory.
    Current Position: Tenure-Track Assistant Prof. of Math., PKU (Beijing University).

    Email: csong at math.pku.edu.cn

    Masters Students

  • Mirko Visontai, Masters degree, Penn, July 2007.
    Thesis: Investigations of Graph Polynomials. (Mirko is now in the Penn Ph. D. program.)
  • Kendra Nelsen, Masters degree, Penn, May 2005.
    Thesis: A New Interpretation of the Cocharge Statistic.
  • Jaren Smith, Masters degree, Penn, July 2004.
    Thesis: The q,t-Catalan Numbers .
  • Dan Cain, Masters degree, Penn, December 2003.
    Thesis: Rook Theory and Matchings: ,