Benny Sudakov

I am a Professor of Mathematics at UCLA, incumbent of the David Saxon Presidential Term Chair. Before coming to Los Angeles I enjoyed the hospitality of Princeton University and Institute for Advanced Study. I got my Ph.D. in 1999 from the School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University. My advisor was Noga Alon.

My work is supported by NSF CAREER grant and USA-Israel BSF grant.

Contact me

    Office: Math Sciences 7911, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095.
    Phone: (310) 825-1087.
            Email: bsudakov@math.ucla.edu

Fields of interest

Algebraic and Probabilistic Methods in Combinatorics, Extremal Graph and Hypergraph Theory,
Ramsey Theory, Random Structures, Application of Combinatorics to Theoretical Computer Science.

Curriculum Vitae

My CV

My research

On-line available papers

Talks

Ph.D students

I had the great pleasure of advising the following students

Peter Keevash, Princeton University, Ph.D. 2004. Lecturer in Pure Mathematics at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London.
Boris Bukh, Princeton University, Ph.D. 2009. Postdoctoral fellow, Cambridge University.
Po-Shen Loh, Princeton University, in progress.
Jacob Fox, Princeton University, in progress.
Choongbum Lee, UCLA, in progress.

Workshops and seminars

UCLA-IPAM Combinatorics Seminar
Combinatorics: Methods and Applications in Mathematics and Computer Science, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), UCLA, September 8 - December 11, 2009.
Probabilistic and Extremal Combinatorics, Banff Resecrh Center, August 23-28, 2009.
Workshop on Properties of Large Graphs: From Combinatorics to Statistical Physics and Back, DIMACS, Rutgers University
Mini-symposium on Probabilistic Combinatorics: Part I and Part II, 2006 SIAM Discrete Mathematics Conference, Victoria
Probabilistic Combinatorics, Banff Resecrh Center, 2005. Here is group photo of participants from this meeting.
Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics, AMS Eastern Section Meeting

Coauthors

Noga Alon, Jozsef Balogh, Boaz Barak, Richard Beigel, Tom Bohman, Bela Bollobas, Boris Bukh, David Conlon, Irit Dinur, Jacob Fox, Ehud Friedgut, Alan Frieze, Zoltan Furedi, David Gamarnik, Vince Grolmusz, Gregory Gutin, Simon Kasif, Peter Keevash, Alexander Kelmans, Jeong Han Kim, Guy Kindler, Alexandr Kostochka, Michael Krivelevich, Choongbum Lee, Po-Shen Loh, Eyal Lubetzky, Elchanan Mossel, Dhruv Mubayi, Ram Nathaniel, Ryan O'Donnell, Oleg Pikhurko, Rados Radoicic, Bruce Reed, Oded Regev, Oliver Riordan, Steven Rudich, Mike Saks, Ronen Shaltiel, Asaf Shapira, Alexander Soshnikov, Jeffrey Steif, Tibor Szabo, Endre Szemeredi, Prasad Tetali, Jacques Verstraete, Danny Vilenchik, Jan Vondrak, Van Vu, Avi Wigderson, Nick Wormald, Anders Yeo, Ayal Zaks, Uri Zwick.