Career Snapshot
Graph Theory & Combinatorics
I study structural and extremal questions in graph theory and combinatorics, with particular focus on flag algebras, extremal graph theory, graph coloring, and combinatorial algorithms.
Publications and SlidesService
Associate Chair
Associate Chair for research and faculty development, Department of Mathematics.Program Director
Director of the Postbaccalaureate program in Mathematics.Editor
Editor for the SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics.Associate Editor
Associate editor for Discrete Mathematics.Current Courses
Graduate Students & Postdocs
- Nick Layman — current PhD student (2027).
- Sydney Miyasaki — current PhD student (2026).
- Anna Halfpap — Tenure track at Truman State University (postdoc, 2025).
- Christian McRoberts — Rural Carrier Associate at USPS (2024 ceremony) .
- Emily Heath — RTG postdoc, 2024.
- Caroline Bang — Quantitative Model Analyst Assistant VP at US Bank (2023 ceremony, co-advisor Jonathan Smith).
- Alejandra Marcelino — MS (2022).
- Rachel Kirsch — Tenure track at George Mason University (RTG postdoc, 2021).
- Kyle Murphy — PhD, data scientist at Marriot Hotels (2021 ceremony).
- Adam Blumenthal — PhD, Tenure track at Westminster College (2020, co-advisor Michael Young).
- Kacy Messerschmidt — PhD, Mathematician III at IGT (2018 ceremony).
- Neha Bora — MS, Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Atlassian (2017).
- Kevin Moss — PhD, Data Engineer at Facebook (2017, co-advisor Steve Butler).
See also Mathematics Genealogy Project.
Events & Resources
- Discrete Math @ Iowa (seminar) Weekly seminar at Iowa State.
- Math PostBac at ISU Postbaccalaureate Certificate in Mathematics at ISU.
- Graduate Research Workshop in Combinatorics (GRWC) Annual two-week research workshop for graduate students that I help organize.
- MATH REU @ ISU Research Experience for Undergraduates that I am slightly involved with.
- RTG NSF funded project for training graduate students and postdocs.
- Copy of Derrick Stolee academic webpage The original server disappeared, so a local copy lives here.
- Copy of old Flagmatic webpage Archived version from web.archive.org (without certificates) for those using Flagmatic.
- Flag Algebras Summer School in Ames 2023 Program I organized.
- AMS in Omaha 2023 Minisymposium I coorganized.
- MMMMM 2022 Conference targeted to graduate students I coorganized.
- AMS in Utah 2022 Minisymposium I coorganized.
- CMPS 2022 Virtual conference targeted to graduate students I coorganized.
- CCCC 2021 Virtual conference targeted to graduate students I coorganized.
- MMMMM 2018 Conference targeted to graduate students I organized.
- Ames Info Suggestions for things to do in Ames, Iowa.