Kyle F. Jao

Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Mathematics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1409 W. Green Street
Urbana, IL 61801

Office: 224 Illini Hall
Phone: (217) 244-1742
E-mail: fjao2 (at) uiuc (dot) edu

Research Interests

Combinatorics, graph theory, and applications to computer science. Particularly, extremal graph theory, list coloring, graph realization, graph decomposition, and algebraic methods in graph theory.

Teaching

Spring 2012: Math 241 Calculus III (AD8)
Fall 2011: Math 181 A Mathematical World (G1)
Fall 2010: Math 241 Calculus III (BD4)
Spring 2010: Math 231 Calculus II (AD3,AD4) (On the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent)
Fall 2009: Math 231 Calculus II (CD3,CD5)
Spring 2009: Math 234 Calculus for Business I (AD5,AD6)
Fall 2008: Math 241 Calculus III (CD3,CD4)

Publications

Decomposition of Cartesian Products of Regular Graphs into Isomorphic Trees (with Alexandr V. Kostochka and Douglas B. West), in preparation.
Vertex Degrees in Outerplanar Graphs (with Douglas B. West), J. Comb. Math. & Comb. Comput. (in press) pdf
Length Thresholds for Graphic Lists Given Fixed Largest and Smallest Entries and Bounded Gaps (with Michael D. Barrus, Stephen G. Hartke, and Douglas B. West), Discrete Math.. 312 (2012), 1494-1501. pdf

Talks

24th Cumberland Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing, University of Louisville, May 12-14, 2011.
51st MIdwest GrapH TheorY Meeting (MIGHTY LI), Indiana University-Purdue University, April 15-16, 2011.
7th Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference, Penn State University, April 9-10, 2011.
6th Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference, Auburn University, April 3-4, 2010.
Combinatorics Workshop (2 lectures), Academia Sinica, Taiwan, August 2009.
Graph Theory and Combinatorics Seminar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 7, 2008.

Links

Math Department Group Photo