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Dr. William T. Trotter
Chair and Professor
Office Skiles 108D
Phone 404 894 3640
Email trotter [at] math.gatech.edu
Home Page www.math.gatech.edu/~trotter

Area of Research Combinatorics and Graph Theory
Degree Ph.D. 1969, University of Alabama

Current research interests:

Combinatorics and graph theory with emphasis on extremal problems for discrete structures (with special interests in finite partially ordered sets), on-line algorithms, approximation algorithms, ramsey theory, discrete geometry, and discrete optimization.

Current Research Problems:

  1. Correlation Inequalities
  2. Hamiltonian cycle and path problems
  3. The Removable Pair Conjecture
  4. The "1/3-2/3" Conjecture
  5. Geometric Inclusion Orders
  6. Distances in the Euclidean Plane
  7. On-Line Graph Coloring
  8. On-Line Chain Partitioning
  9. The Dimension of Cartesian Products
Professor Trotter is the Managing Editor for Order, A Journal on the Theory of Ordered Sets and its Applications

School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0160
phone: 404-894-2700, fax: 404-894-4409, webmaster@math.gatech.edu

URL:http://www.math.gatech.edu/people/faculty/trotter.html
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