Robert B. Ellis IIT Logo
Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics, IIT
Research Interests  

[spectral] graph theory, combinatorics,

    coding theory
Random geometric graphs, probabilistic

    methods, algorithm design & analysis

Spring `08 Teaching

Math 430-001

All Teaching (Project NExT)

Curriculum Vitae (pdf html)

 

Applied Mathematics
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Selected Research Papers (complete listing)

1. Variance of the subgraph count for Erdos-Renyi graphs (pdf) submitted (w/James P. Ferry).

2. Two-batch liar games on a general bounded channel (pdf slides), submitted (w/K. Nyman).

3. The Renyi-Ulam pathological liar game with a fixed number of lies (arXiv pdf), J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 112 (2005), 328-336 (w/V. Ponomarenko and C.H. Yan).

4. Random geometric graph diameter in the unit ball, Algorithmica 47 (2007), 421-438 (arXiv pdf) (with J.L. Martin and C.H. Yan). The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.

5. Asymmetric binary covering codes (arXiv pdf), J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 100 (2002), 232--249 (2002) (w/J.N. Cooper, A.B. Kahng).

6. A chip-firing game and Dirichlet eigenvalues (pdf),  Discrete Math. 257 (2002), 341-355 (w/F.R.K. Chung).


Samples of Research Interests

1. The Probabilistic Method meets combinatorial coding theory:

· Asymmetric binary covering codes (ppt slides) (arXiv), JCTA 100, 2002 (with Joshua Cooper and Andrew B. Kahng).

· Improved upper bounds (paper #261) on radius 1 cases by David Applegate, Eric Rains, and Neil Sloane

· New upper bounds on code sizes by Geoff Exoo and Esa Seuranen

· Improved density upper bound by Michael Krivelevich, Benny Sudakov, and Van Vu

· Corresponding density of normal binary covering codes (arXiv) (R.B. Ellis)

· Torus hitting times and Green's functions (html, images)

2. Torus hitting times and Green's functions (html, images)

3. Hearing the shape of a graph via its spectrum (html, images, wav)


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