William T. Trotter

Contact Information		Mailing Address
Email:	trotter at math dot gatech dot edu	School of Mathematics
Phone:	(404) 894 - 3640	Georgia Institute of Technology
Fax:	(404) 894 - 4409	Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0160

Course Materials

Fall 2011: Math 1501 - Calculus I

Fall 2011: Math 3012 - Applied Combinatorics

The text for this course may be downloaded as a pdf file here. This text will be used by all sections of Math 3012. Students who are enrolled in my course will find additional materials at the Course Website.

Editorial Service

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


Order	Journal of Graph Theory	Discrete Mathematics	Journal of Combinatorics

CV, Publications and Presentations

Full CV - Including publications.
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.

Photo Gallery

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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:

Updated August 15, 2011.