Research interests

  • Extremal Graph Theory
  • Probabilistic Methods in Combinatorics
  • Combinatorial Algorithms

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Awards and prizes

  • 2019 EATCS Nerode Prize
  • 1994 Marcus and Celia Prize in Computer Science awarded by Tel Aviv University
  • 1993 Landau Prize for outstanding Ph.D. students

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Some open problems

  • Long path in Eulerian directed graphs.
    Is it true that any simple Eulerian digraph with n vertices and m arcs has a simple path of length Ω(m/n)?
    See the following paper for more information.
  • Packing regular tournaments with small cycles.
    Is it true that any regular tournament with n vertices has (1-o(1))n^2/8 arc-disjoint cycles of length 4?
    Is it true that any regular tournament with n vertices has (1-o(1))n^2/9 arc-disjoint cycles of length 3?
    See the following paper for more information.
  • Packing transitive triples in a tournament.
    Conjecture: Every tournament with n vertices contains a set of at least n(n-1)/6 - n/3 edge-disjoint transitive tournaments on three vertices. This has been verified for all n < 9. The conjecture appears here.
  • Monotone paths in planar graphs.
    For a simple undirected graph G, let f(G) be the minimum over all edge orderings of the maximum length of a monotone path. It is known that if G is planar then f(G) 9. There are constructions of planar graphs with f(G)=6.
    See the following paper for more information.