William T. Trotter, Chair

School of Mathematics
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia 30332

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Contact Information		Mailing Address
Email:	trotter at gatech dot edu	School of Mathematics
Phone:	(404) 894 - 9202 (Ms. Christine Weinberg)	Georgia Institute of Technology
Fax:	(404) 894 - 4409	Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0160

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Course Materials

      Spring 2008:   Math 4032 - Combinatorial Mathematics

      Fall 2007:   Math 1501 - Calculus 1

      Spring 2007:   Math 3012 - Applied Combinatorics

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Editorial Service

      Professor Trotter is a member of the Editorial Board of the following journals:

Order	Journal of Graph Theory	Discrete Mathematics

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CV, Publications and Presentations

• CV:  In pdf format.
• List of Publications:  In pdf format.
• Publications in Electronic Format:  Many of my more recent papers are available in electronic form, mostly in pdf but a few in postscript only. Click here to see a listing of these papers.  Send email for a copy of any of the remaining papers.
• Conference and Colloquium Presentations:  Also available for download are several presentations made at conferences and colloquia.  Click here for a listing.

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Photo Gallery

• Click here to see what the Trotter family has been up to lately!

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Current Research Interests

• Summary:  Combinatorics and graph theory with emphasis on extremal problems for discrete structures (with a particular focus on finite partially ordered sets), on-line algorithms, approximation algorithms, ramsey theory, discrete geometry, and discrete optimization.
• Selected Research Problems:
  1. First Fit coloring of interval graphs
  2. Correlation Inequalities
  3. Hamiltonian cycle and path problems
  4. The Removable Pair Conjecture
  5. The 1/3-2/3 Conjecture
  6. Geometric Inclusion Orders
  7. Distances in the Euclidean Plane
  8. On-Line Graph Coloring
  9. On-Line Chain Partitioning
  10. The Dimension of Cartesian Products

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Updated January 20, 2007.