I am a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Vermont in the great state of Vermont. The photo to the left was taken in April 2008. To see the photo of me that was on this site from 1984 until 2000 click here.
My address, phone and fax number is given below.
I am the co editor-in-chief of the CRC Handbook of Combinatorial Designs (with Charlie Colbourn) and I maintain the web pages for the Handbook. Check it out. Click here for a photo of Charlie and me taken in Colorado in 1995 when we first showed a preliminary manuscript of the Handbook to people at the R.C. Bose Conference in Fort Collins. We are holding up the title page of the book.
I am also one of the editors-in-chief as well as the managing editor of the Journal of Combinatorial Designs.
More information on combinatorics is available from The Hyperbook of Combinatorics, the Combinatorics Net and The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics and World Combinatorics Exchange .
Here is the web page for UVM - St. Mikes Applied Combinatorics Seminar.
I am the co-director (with Sheila Weaver and Tony
Trono) of the Governor's Institute in Mathematical Sciences. This is
a one week program for mathematically talented high school students.
Information about the Institute can be found here.
There was a nice article in the Burlington Free Press
on June 26, 2008 about the Institute.
In 2001, my colleague Dalibor Froncek and I
were involved
with the now defunct football league, the XFL.
No, they didn't need me to be a
player. We actually constructed the schedule of play for their 2001
season. Too bad the league folded after one year, they really liked
our schedule and were planning on working with us again. At least we
got to go to the championship game in Los Angeles and we got a lot of
press for doing the schedule. Here is a photo
of me and Dalibor in the LA Coliseum at the Championship game. The New
York Times published an story about our scheduling the XFL, it
appeared on Feb 3, 2001. (I saved it locally -- click here if
you do
not subscribe to the NY times online.) A similar article appeared in
the sports page of the
Burlington Free Press on Feb 11, 2001.
In some circles, I am most well known for posing the
so called
"Dinitz
Conjecture". I made this conjecture to Paul Erdos
in
1979 and it was eventually proven by Fred Galvin of the University of
Kansas in 1994.
I enjoy sporting activities such as skiing,
biking, kayaking, and hiking. My favorite ski area is Mad River Glen where I'm a
shareholder. Here is a web page about
how volunteers help maintain the famous woods trails at Mad River.
I am also a huge Ohio State Buckeyes football fan.
(National Champions 2002 !! BCS finalist 2006 and 2007) Click here
, here or here
for the latest information about the Buckeyes football team.
I also like my tractor. It's a Ford and I use it to
plow snow in
the winter and to mow the lawn in the summer. I finally have a few
photos of me plowing my driveway during the snowy winter of
2000-2001.
Click here or
here to see the photos.
I have scanned in some pictures. Here is an index of the photos.
My other interests
I
have a wife Sue and three kids, Mike (25) ,
Amy (23), and Tom
(20). Sue
teaches in the English
Department at the University of Vermont and is currently the head
of the Writing
Center. Mike is a fourth year graduate student in computer science
at Carnegie-Mellon University (my alma mater:), Amy is in her first
year of medical school at NYU School of Medicine and Tom is a sophomore at Colgate
University.
Available material
Address:
Jeff...@uvm.edu
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Vermont
16 Colchester Ave.
Burlington, Vermont 05405
U.S.A.
My office is in 206 Mansfield House.
Telephone: 656-4292
Fax: (802) 656-2552
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