Hemanshu Kaul

Department of Applied Mathematics
Illinois Institute of Technology
10 West 32nd Street
Chicago, IL 60616

Tel: (312) 567-3128
Fax: (312) 567-3135
e-mail: kaul at math.iit.edu
Webpage: http://www.math.iit.edu/~kaul

General Information

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at Illinois Institute of Technology. Here is my departmental contact page.

I graduated from the Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I was a member of the Combinatorics and Graph Theory research group, and the Simulation and Optimization laboratory (a part of Operations Research at UIUC). My dissertation was co-directed by Professors Sheldon Jacobson and Douglas West.

I was an AMS Project NExT Fellow, 2007-08.

Earlier, I studied at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and at St. Stephen's College, Delhi.

My Curriculum Vitae.




| Research Interests | | Research Activities | | Conferences & Seminars | | Teaching | | Miscellaneous |

Research Interests

I work in the fields of Discrete Mathematics and Operations Research.
My research interests lie in Combinatorics & Graph theory, Discrete Optimization, Discrete Geometry, and their interface with Probability.

In particular, I am interested in both theoretical and applied aspects of (in no particular order) extremal graph theory, probabilistic combinatorics, stochastic combinatorial optimization, optimization on graphs and networks, random discrete structures such as random geometric graphs, models for discrete complex systems such as small-world network models, metaheuristics and local search landscapes in discrete optimization, stochastic models in operations research, multiobjective discrete optimization, and stochastic discrete geometry.
Here is the departmental research page at IIT.

Here is a brief Statement of Research Interests.

Check out my list of Journals in discrete mathematics and related fields , which also give an indication of my research interests.


Research and Academic Activities

Papers and Publications with summaries and talks.


Presentations, Conferences and Workshops


Conferences and Seminars

IIT Applied Math Colloquium (Organizer 2008-09).

IIT Discrete Applied Math Research Seminar (Organizer 2007-08).

Chicago Area Discrete Math Reading Seminar (Co-Organizer 2006-present).

47th Midwest Graph Theory Conference, November 2008, IIT, Chicago (co-organizer).

Special Session on Graph Theory at AMS Meeting, April 2008, Indiana University, Bloomington (co-organizer).

Special Session on Graph Theory at AMS Meeting, October 2007, Depaul University, Chicago (co-organizer).


Current Teaching

Spring 2009
Math 410: Number Theory
Math 554: Discrete Applied Math II

Math 591: M.S. Thesis research.
Math 593: Graduate Student Seminar coordinator.


Teaching Experience

At IIT :

Fall 2008
Math 332: Elementary Linear Algebra (Matrices)

Math 491: Research with undergrad on 'Guarding Orthogonal Art gallery with holes'.
Math 100: Lecture on 'Graph Coloring'; Project (expository report and computer implementation) on 'Theory and Algorithms for Stable Matchings' with 2 students.
Math 593: Graduate Student Seminar coordinator.

Summer 2008
Math 491: Research with undergrads on 'Guarding Orthogonal Art gallery with holes' and on 'Fall coloring of Graphs'.

Spring 2008
Math 435/ 535: Linear Optimization/ Optimization I

Math 491: Research with undergrad on 'Fall coloring of Graphs'.

Fall 2007
Math 251: Multivariable and Vector Calculus
Math 454/ 553: Graph Theory/ Discrete Applied Math I

Math 100: Lectures on 'Logical reasoning'.

Spring 2007
Math 410: Number Theory


Fall 2006
Math 151-006: Calculus I
Math 332-001: Elementary Linear Algebra (Matrices)

Math 100: Lecture on 'Graph Optimization'; Project (expository report and computer implementation) on 'Theory and Algorithms for Stable Matchings' with 3 students.

At UIUC :

Fall 2005 and earlier
Topics in Probabilistic Methods for Discrete Mathematics
Other Courses and Course Proposals



Miscellaneous

Favorite Links: Discrete Math, Operations Research and Applied Probability; General Mathematical Resources; Academic Homepages; Software Resources; General References; Newspapers, Magazines and Blogs; Weather; Books and Music; Culinary Resources; Movies and Entertainment; Puzzles and Humor; Sports; Travel; Search Engines; Urbana-Champaign.

Journals (etc.) in Discrete Mathematics and related fields -- a resource maintained by me.










( My name is often misspelled, so here are some other common spellings : himanshu kaul / himanshu koul / hemanshu koul )