Michael Pelsmajer, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Applied Mathematics
Office: Engineering 1, Room 206
10 W. 32nd Street
Chicago, IL 60616
Office Hours: Anytime, by appointment
Phone: 312.567.5344
Fax: 312.567.3135
Email:
pelsmajer_AT_iit_DOT_edu
Web:
http://mypages.iit.edu/~pelsmajer
Expertise
- Discrete Applied Mathematics: Graph Theory, Combinatorics, Applications, Algorithms & Complexity.
Education
- Ph.D. - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Curriculum Vitae
Research & Major Accomplishments
Current Projects
Awards/Honors
Patents
Books
Selected Publications
- Odd Crossing Number and Crossing Number Are Not the Same, with M.Schaefer and D.Stefankovic, Discrete and Computational Geometry 39, 2008, 442-454.
Republished in Twentieth Anniversary Volume: Discrete and Computational Geometry, J.E. Goodman, J. Pach, R. Pollack (Eds.), 2009. - 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. Kundgen, 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.
- Removing Even Crossings, with M.Schaefer and D.Stefankovic, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, 97(4), 2007, 489-500.
