Niranjan Balachandran
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EMPLOYMENT : Harry Bateman Research Instructor in
Mathematics, Caltech.
Research Interests: Combinatorics.
My
current research interests include Extremal Combinatorics,
Probabilistic methods, and Design theory. I have more recently
become very interested in the applications of Probabilistic
methods in Combinatorics especially in Graph-theoretic applications
such as coloring problems.
Teaching
Papers
Lecture Notes: 1. The
Probabilistic Method in Combinatorics
2. Real
Mathematical Analysis
These are based on lectures I
gave for 2 different courses and had the students act as scribes.
They still need some polishing.
Some interesting websites:
The Papers of Paul Erdős: The Renyi Institute
seems to be doing a great service to all Combinatorists by having an
online repository of all (well, not all!) the papers of Paul Erdős. As far as I see, the list looks pretty
comprehensive till 1989.
Douglas West' Open
Problem Page.
How
to give a talk: I saw this link on the homepage of Paul Nevái;
I have tried to find the original article but all the links I
have found online seem dead or lead elsewhere. This is apparently
based on a talk delivered by Gian-Carlo Rota on the occasion of the
Rotafest in April, 1996.
My
Favorite 5 (In alphabetical
Order):
Noga
Alon Tim
Gowers Laszlo
Lovasz Benny
Sudakov Terrence Tao
Other Links:
Dictionary
Weather
Cricket
Other (Non-mathematical)
Interests:
Music:
I have now moved samples of my work here
My Blog:
I wrote more regularly at one point of time. Some of them were just
random rants/musings. But some of them were written purely for form
and structure rather than content.