Organizing Committee
The organizing committee of GRWC consist of a group of accomplished scholars from the organizing institutions located in the Great Plains region. Their names, affiliations, contact information, and research interests are given below.
University of Colorado Denver
Ellen Gethner (ellen.gethner@ucdenver.edu) -- Topological, computational, and chromatic graph theory
Stephen Hartke (stephen.hartke@ucdenver.edu) -- Computational methods in combinatorics, structural, and extremal graph theory
Florian Pfender (florian.pfender@ucdenver.edu) -- Extremal combinatorics, graph colorings, and flag algebras and dual methods
Iowa State University
Steve Butler (butler@iastate.edu) -- Spectral graph theory
Leslie Hogben (hogben@aimath.org) -- Combinatorial matrix theory and spectral graph theory
Bernard Lidický (lidicky@iastate.edu) -- Graph colorings, flag algebras, and extremal combinatorics
Ryan Martin (rymartin@iastate.edu) -- Probabilistic and extremal combinatorics, partially ordered sets, applications of Szemerédi's regularity lemma, and applications of linear and nonlinear programming
Sung-Yell Song (sysong@iastate.edu) -- Combinatorial designs, difference sets, association schemes, partial geometries, and combinatorics of classical geometries
Michael Young (myoung@iastate.edu) -- Extremal combinatorics, combinatorial matrix theory, flag algebras and dual methods, and partially ordered sets
Shira Zerbib (zerbib@iastate.edu) -- Discrete geometry; combinatorial topology
University of Denver
Paul Horn (paul.horn@du.edu) -- Probabilistic combinatorics, spectral graph theory, geometric methods, and analysis of complex networks
Mario Lopez (mlopez@du.edu) -- Computational geometry, algorithms
Mei Yin (mei.yin@du.edu) -- Random graph models in mathematical physics
University of Kansas
Margaret Bayer (bayer@ku.edu) -- Algebraic and geometric combinatorics, discrete geometry
Jeremy Martin (jlmartin@ku.edu) -- Algebraic, geometric, and topological combinatorics
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Xavier Pérez Giménez (xperez@unl.edu) -- Probabilistic methods in combinatorics, random structures, graph theory, asymptotic enumeration
Jamie Radcliffe (aradcliffe1@math.unl.edu) -- Algebraic combinatorics, probabilistic Combinatorics, and graph homomorphisms
University of Wyoming
Tyrrell McAllister (tmcallis@uwyo.edu) -- Discrete and polyhedral geometry, lattice-point enumeration, convexity, and partially ordered spaces
Bryan Shader (bshader@uwyo.edu) -- Combinatorial matrix theory
Jason Williford (jwillif1@uwyo.edu) -- Finite geometry, algebraic graph theory, association schemes, and extremal graph theory
Williams College
Pamela E. Harris (pamela.e.harris@williams.edu) --Algebraic combinatorics