Emily Cairncross


I am a Mathematical Computer Science (MCS) doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago. My Ph.D. advisor is Dhruv Mubayi. My CV can be found here, and I can be reached at emilyc10@uic.edu.

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This academic year, I am co-organizing the weekly Graduate Student Combinatorics, Algorithms, and Probability Seminar (GCAPS) with Clayton Mizgerd. I am also a member of Symbols of Inclusion and served as co-president of the Math Graduate Student Assocation (MGSA) in 2022-2023.

My office hours for Fall 2024 are 2-3pm Mondays and Wednesdays in the MSLC.


Research Interests


I am interested in extremal combinatorics, especially extremal graph theory and extremal set theory.


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