Combinatorics Group

The combinatorics research group has three faculty members and nine Ph.D. students, see below. The research interests of the faculty members are in graph theory and matroid theory. The focus of this work has been on structure theory for graphs and matroids but has also included computational issues relating to these structures and various invariants associated with them. Group members have been well supported by federal research grants. More than 30 Ph.D. students have received degrees under the supervision of the three professorial faculty in the group. Group members have produced more than 300 research publications.

More information about the LSU combinatorics seminar can be found here. If you would like to be notified by email about meetings of the Combinatorics Seminar, send a message to Christine Cho.

Group Members:

Guoli Ding

Guoli Ding
Ph.D. (Rutgers, 1991; Advisor: Paul Seymour)

 James Oxley

James Oxley
Ph.D. (Oxford, 1978; Advisor: Dominic Welsh)

 Zhiyu Wang

Zhiyu Wang
Ph.D. (South Carolina, 2020; Advisor: Linyuan Lu)

Graduate Students:

Christine Cho

Chris Cho
(Oxley)

 Dylan Douthitt

Dylan Douthitt
(Oxley)

 Wayne

Wayne Ge
(Oxley)
Matthew Mizell

Matthew Mizell
(Oxley)

 Phuc Nguyen

Phuc Nguyen
(Ding)

 Brittian Qualls

Britt Qualls
(Oporowski; Ding)
Avin Sunuwar

Avin Sunuwar
(Ding)

 Jake Weber

Jake Weber
(Ding)

 Samuel Weiner

Samuel Weiner
(Ding)

Former Faculty and Postdocs:

  • Bogdan Oporowski, Professor (Ohio State, 1989; Advisor: Neil Robertson)
  • Zach Walsh, Postdoc (University of Waterloo, 2020; Advisor: Peter Nelson)
  • Ben Clark, Postdoc (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015; Advisor: Geoff Whittle)
  • Emily Marshall, Postdoc (Vanderbilt, 2014; Advisor: Mark Ellingham)
  • Stefan van Zwam, Assistant Professor (Eindhoven, 2009; Promotor: Bert Gerards; Co-Promotor: Rudi Pendavingh)
  • Dirk Vertigan, Professor (Oxford, 1991; Advisor: Dominic Welsh)

Recent Former Graduate Students:

  • Cameron Crenshaw; Advisor: James Oxley, Ph.D. 2023
  • Jagdeep Singh; Advisor: James Oxley, Ph.D. 2022
  • Sarah Allred; Advisor: Bogdan Oporowski, Ph.D. 2022
  • Zachary Gershkoff; Advisor: James Oxley, Ph.D. 2021
  • Farid Bouya; Advisor: Bogdan Oporowski, Ph.D. 2020
  • Tara Fife; Advisor: James Oxley, Ph.D. 2020
  • Matthew Barnes; Advisor: Bogdan Oporowski, Ph.D. 2018
  • Joshua Fallon; Advisor: Bogdan Oporowski, Ph.D. 2018
  • Victoria Fontaine; Advisor: James Oxley, Ph.D. 2018
  • Kevin Grace; Advisor: Stefan van Zwam, Ph.D. 2018
  • Shilin Wang; Advisor: Guoli Ding, Ph.D. 2018
  • Kristen Wetzler; Advisor: James Oxley, Ph.D. 2018
  • Kimberly D'Souza; Advisor: Guoli Ding, Ph.D. 2016
  • Simon Pfeil; Advisor: James Oxley, Ph.D. 2016
  • Adam Beau Ferguson; Advisor: Guoli Ding, Ph.D. 2015
  • Chanun Lewchalermvongs; Advisor: Guoli Ding, Ph.D. 2015