Doctoral Assistant
EPFL SB MATHGEOM DCG
MA C1 585 (Bâtiment MA)
Station 8
CH-1015 Lausanne
Office: MA C1585
Email: [email protected]
Hello! My name is Claudiu and I am a PhD student at EPFL, under the supervision of prof. János Pach.
Research interest: algebraic techniques in combinatorial geometry, also with an eye on topological methods.
Here is my CV.
Publications
- Four-variable expanders over the prime fields – with D. Koh, H. Nassajian Mojarrad, and T. Pham, 2017, Submitted. (arxiv)
- Near equipartitions of colored point sets – with A. Holmsen and J. Kynčl, Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications 65, 35-42, 2017. (journal /arxiv)
- Distinct distances between points and lines in F_q^2 – with N. D. Phuong, T. Pham, N. M. Sang, and L. A. Vinh, 2016, accepted to Forum Mathematicum. See also (arxiv)
- On the number of ordinary conics – with T. Boys and F.de Zeeuw, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics 30, 1644-1659, 2016. (journal /arxiv)
- Schwartz-Zippel bounds for two-dimensional products – with H. Nassajian Mojarrad, T. Pham, and F.de Zeeuw, 2015, Submitted. (arxiv)
- Distinct distances between points and lines – with M. Sharir, S. Smorodinsky, and F. de Zeeuw, EUROCG 2015, Ljubljana, 165-168, Submitted. (conference /arxiv)
- Distinct values of bilinear forms on algebraic curves – with F. de Zeeuw, Contributions to Discrete Mathematics, 11 (1), 31-45, 2016. (journal /arxiv)
- A note on direct products and Ext^1 contravariant functors – with F. Pop, Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society 39 (1), 173-180, 2016. (journal)
Courses at EPFL (as teaching assistant)
- Fall 2016: Analyse avancée (instructor: Prof. C. Hongler)
- Spring 2016: Graph theory (instructor: Dr. F. De Zeeuw)
- Fall 2015: Discrete mathematics (instructor: Prof. J. Pach)
- Spring 2015: Graph theory (instructor: Dr. A. Kupavskii)
- Fall 2014: Discrete mathematics (instructor: Prof. J. Pach)
- Spring 2014: Packing and covering (instructor: Prof. J. Pach)
- Fall 2013: Linear algebra (instructor: Prof. J. Pach)
Selected talks
- Algebraic techniques in combinatorial geometry, 2nd Workshop on Algebra and Geometry, 2014, Bern
- Discrete geometry from an algebraic point of view, 13th Graduate colloquium, 2014, Basel
- Distinct distances between points and lines, EUROCG 2015, March 15-18, Ljubljana
Co-authors
I have had the pleasure to work with:
Frank de Zeeuw (4x), Thang Pham (3x), Hossein Nassajian Mojarrad (2x), Thomas Boys, Andreas Holmsen, Doowon Koh, Jan Kynčl,, Nguyen Duy Phuong, Flaviu Pop, Nguyen Minh Sang, Micha Sharir, Shakhar Smorodinsky, Le Anh Vinh,