Thomas Zaslavsky's Home Page

Courses

Math 510 (Introduction to Graph Theory)
Course home page.
Math 580A (Matroid Theory)
Textbook: James Oxley, Matroid Theory, Oxford University Press.
Course home page.

Office hours (Spring 2008)

M, W, F: 2:30 - 3:30.

Past Courses

Future Courses (Fall 2008)

Math 581 (Topics in Graph Theory): Topic to be decided later.

Thomas Zaslavsky

Professor
Ph.D., 1974, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
At Binghamton since 1985

Areas of interest: Combinatorics, graph theory
Summary of research interests
Math Reviews list of published papers. (Institutional subscription to MathSciNet is needed for viewing.)

E-mail: zaslav@math.binghamton.edu

Phone: (607)-777-2201

Fax: (607)-777-2450

Office: LN 2231
Office hours:

MWF 2:30-3:30

Courses:

Spring 2008

Math 510	Section 01:	Introduction to Graph Theory
	MWF	1:10 - 2:10	LN-2205
Math 563	Section 01:	Combinatorics Seminar
	T	1:15 - 2:40	LN-2205
Math 580A	Section 01:	Topics in Combinatorial Analysis
	MWF	12:00 - 1:00	LN-2205
	F	2:20 - 3:20	LN-2205

Ph. D. Students:
- Rigoberto Florez, Summer, 2005
  Thesis: Four Studies in the Geometry of Biased Graphs
- Lori Koban, Summer, 2004
  Thesis: Two Generalizations of Biased Graph Theory: Circuit Signatures and Modular Triples of Matroids, and Biased Expansions of Biased Graphs
- Steven Tedford, Spring, 2002
  Thesis: A Characterization of the Mixed Branching Greedoid
- Daniel Slilaty, Summer, 2000
  Thesis: Orientations of Biased Graphs and Their Matroids
- Steve Pagano, Spring, 1998
  Thesis: Separability and Representability of Bias Matroids of Signed Graphs

Proclaim Liberty throughout all the Land
unto all the Inhabitants Thereof

The Liberty Bell
(from Leviticus 25:10)

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin, 1755

Quotations of the Month:

It is with a heavy heart that I apologize this morning to Aunt Jemima.

-- John Sylvester, a radio host in Madison, Wis., re his comparing of Condoleezza Rice to Aunt Jemima, 2004.

-- From "Regrets Only" (a list of apologies), an op-ed in the New York Tunes, Oct. 14, 2007.

Past quotations of the month.

Economics 101:

As long as the medium-sized property held its own beside the great estate, [Rome] was reasonably broad-based, above her peasant foundations. Her safety would be jeopardized, however, when inflation and taxation whittled down the middle class, and left only great landowners and starving peasants side by side.

-- Robert Lopez, The Birth of Europe, New York, 1967, pp. 13-14.

Research

My Publications and So Forth
A list of published and selected unpublished works.
A list arranged by topics.

My Research Interests
Combinatorics, especially matroids, arrangements of hyperplanes, and the topic to which I devote most of my attention, signed graphs and their relatives: see
The Home Page of Signed, Gain, and Biased Graphs
at which you will find the Mathematical Bibliography, the Glossary, and a glacially growing list of research problems.

Other Places, On and Off Site

Combinatorics Seminar

Upcoming Conferences
- May 6 (Sat.): Discrete Math Day at SUNY Binghamton.

Combinatorics News
- Gian-Carlo Rota (Our Hero!)
- eXtreme Combinatorics: Design theory schedules the XFL season. (February 3, 2001.)
- A Hat Problem: It sounds like a parlor game -- but it's mathematical coding theory. (April 10, 2001.)
- Our professors have their own number.
- The End of a Reign in Graph Theory: W.T. Tutte Dies, May 2, 2002.
- Archimedes did combinatorics 2200 years ago! Read all about it!
- Sphere packing: Solved at last? or, What is a proof, really?
- A statistical analysis of The New Yorker's fiction. (Not combinatorics, but it's an unusual senior thesis!)
- Obituary of Frank Harary, who liked to be called "Mr. Graph Theory".
- A book on probability that sounds like fascinating fun, full of anecdotes and math: CHANCES ARE... Adventures in Probability, by Michael Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan (New York Times review).

African Mathematics, Multicultural Math, and Math Education
- A small and selective bibliography, classified by topic, concentrating on the works of Claudia Zaslavsky.
- A moderately complete chronological bibliography of the works of Claudia Zaslavsky.
- A brief life of Claudia Zaslavsky.

Historical
- N.E. Discrete Mathematics Day at Binghamton (Oct. 10, 2003): Program
- Binghamton meeting of the A.M.S. (Oct. 11-12, 2003): Program of the Special Session on Dowling Lattices

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