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    Michael Pelsmajer, Ph.D

    Associate Professor

    Applied Mathematics

    Office: Engineering 1, Room 206
    10 W. 32nd Street
    Chicago, IL 60616
    Office Hours: by appointment
    Phone: 312.567.5344
    Fax: 312.567.3135
    Email: pelsmajer_AT_iit_DOT_edu
    Web: Personal Page (including class pages)

    Expertise

    • Graph Theory, Combinatorics, Algorithms and Complexity.

    Education

    • Ph.D. - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    Curriculum Vitae

    Research & Major Accomplishments

    Current Projects

    Awards/Honors

    Patents

    Books

    Selected Publications

    • Fast Edge Colorings with Fixed Number of Colors to minimize Imbalance, with G.Calinescu, Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science 2006, Lecture Notes in Comput. Sci. 4337, Springer, Berlin, 2006, 117-128.
    • Graph minors and reliable single message transmission, with F. Fich, A. K?ndgen, and R. Ramamurthi, Siam J. Discrete Math 19(4), 2005, 815-847.
    • A list analogue of equitable coloring, with A. V. Kostochka and D. B. West, Journal of Graph Theory, Volume 44, Issue 3, 2003, 166-177.
    • Odd Crossing Number and Crossing Number Are Not the Same, with M.Schaefer and D.Stefankovic, Discrete and Computational Geometry, published online March 2006
    • Removing Even Crossings, with M.Schaefer and D.Stefankovic, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, 97(4), 2007, 489-500.

    Professional Society Memberships

    Editorial Board Service

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    Grants

    Community Service

    Fall Semester Welcome Reception
    08.20.08
    12:00-2:00 pm

    First Day of Fall Semester Classes
    08.21.08

    Upcoming Colloquia & Seminars

    Stephen Wiggins
    08.25.08
    4:40 pm
    E1 106

    Ali Cinar
    09.08.08
    4:40 pm
    E1 106

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