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Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
The College of William and Mary
Email: so @ wm . edu
Office: 117 Jones Hall (757-221-2022) .......... Hours: Mon, Wed, Fri 9am - 10am or 11am - noon or by appointment.

I am Suil O, a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department at The College of William and Mary.

I received my Ph.D from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the advisement of Professor Douglas B. West .

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Research Interests

My research interests lie in graph theory , particularly extremal problems (on regular graphs), the relationship between graph parameters and eigenvalues, and structural graph theory.

My Brief CV

Ph.D (2011): University of Illinois at Urbana-Chmapaign, Advisor: Douglas B. West

Teaching

Spring 2009 : List of Teachers ranked as Excellent (Univ. of Illinois)

Fall 2010 : List of Teachers ranked as Excellent (Univ. of Illinois)

Current Course (Spring 2013): Math 111 (Calculus 1)

Papers (Published)

Longest Cycles in k-connected Graphs with Given Independence Number (with Douglas B. West and Hehui Wu) J. Combinatorial Theory (B) 101, (2011) 480-485 (Fouquet-Jolivet Conjecture (1976) became WOW Theorem, where WOW is a combination of the first letters of the authors' last names.)

Matching, and Edge-Connectivity in Regular Graphs (with Douglas B. West) European. J. Combinatorics 32, (2011), 324-329 (4th Most Downloaded EJC Paper in June and July)

Edge-connectivity, Matching, and Eigenvalue in Regular Graphs (with Sebastian M. Cioaba) SIAM. J. Discrete. Math 24, (2010) 1470-1481 (2nd Most Downloaded SIDMA Paper in November 2010, 3rd in December 2010, 5th in January 2011, 6th in February, 20th in March, 4th in April, 4th in May 2011)

Balloons, Cut-edges, Matchings and Total domination in Regular Graphs of Odd Degree(with Douglas B. West) J. Graph Theory 64, (2010) 116-131

Presentations (Selected)

Seminar, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, Korea, June 2012

52nd KPPY Combinatorics Seminar, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea, June 2012

Seminar, Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea, Jan 2009, June 2011, May 2012

KAIST Discrete Math Seminar, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, May 2011, May 2012

AMS Meeting #1080 (Spring Eastern Section), Special Session on Structural and Extremal Problems in Graph Theory (Invited Talk) George Washington University, Washington, DC, Mar. 17-18, 2012

Colloquium , The College of Willaima and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, NoV. 18, 2011

Discrete Mathematics Seminar, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, Oct. 11, 2011

AMS Meeting #1073 (Fall Southeastern Section), Special Session on New Developments in Graph Theory (Invited Talk) Wake Forest University, NC, Sep. 24-25, 2011

Seminar, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea, May 2011

24th Cumberland Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing University of Louisvile, Louisville, KY, May 2011

AMS Meeting #1068 (Southeastern Section Meeting), Special Session on Applied Combinatorics (Invited Talk) Statesboro, GA, Mar. 12-13, 2011

Colloquium, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, Feb. 2011

AMS Meeting #1064 (2010 Fall Central Sectional), special session in Graphs and Hypergraphs, Algebraic and Topological Combinatorics (Invited Talk) University of Notre Dame, IN, Nov. 5-7, 2010

DM10-15th SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics Hyatt Regency Austin, Austin, Texas, June 2010

SIAM Annual Meeting (Invited Minisymposium Talk in honor of Daniel Kleitman's 75th birthday) Denver, CO, July 6-10, 2009

DM08-14th SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, June 2008

Discrete Mathematics Seminar, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, Oct. 2009

Combinatorics Seminar, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, Oct. 2009

Academic Activities

Referee Work: SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics,Journal of Graph Theory, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, Discrete Mathematics, Ars Mathematica Contemporanea, Graphs and Combinatorics, Networks

myWM

Earl Gregg Swem Library

William J. Hargis, Jr Library