Research

Paley's Grave in Banff

drawing by Kathabela Wilson

Interests

• Algebraic and probabilistic methods in combinatorics.
• Extremal set theory questions and their analogs in other structures.

Advisors

• Ph.D. Advisor: Jacques Verstraete
• MMath Advisor: Chris Godsil
• Undergraduate Mentors: Rick Wilson and Ada Chan

Papers

• A. Chowdhury, On the Manickam-Miklos-Singhi Conjecture, in preparation.
• A. Chowdhury, On a Conjecture of Frankl and Furedi, Electron. J. Combin. 18(1) (2011), P56.
  • Extended Abstract in ENDM. 38 (2011), 259-263.
• A. Chowdhury and B. Patkos, Shadows and Intersections in Vector Spaces, J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 117(8): 1095-1106, 2010.
• A. Blokhuis, A.E. Brouwer, A. Chowdhury, P. Frankl, T. Mussche, B. Patkos, and T. Szonyi, A Hilton-Milner Theorem for Vector Spaces, Electron. J. Combin. 17(1) (2010), R71.
• A. Chowdhury, C. Godsil, and G. Royle, Colouring Lines in Projective Space, J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 113(1): 39-52, 2006.

Citations

• Google Scholar
• MathSciNet

Posters and Talks

• Shadows and Intersections in Vector Spaces (Poster)
• Shadows and Intersections in Vector Spaces (Slides)
• On a Conjecture of Frankl and Furedi (Slides)

Theses

• Shadows and Intersections, Ph.D. Thesis, UC San Diego, 2012.
• Colouring Subspaces, Masters Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2005.