Contact Info

• Email: lenz@math.uic.edu
• Office: 630 SEO
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Hi. I am a research assistant professor in the MCS program at UIC. I attended The University of Wisconsin-Madison for my undergraduate work and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for my graduate studies, graduating in May of 2011 with a PhD. My PhD advisor was Jozsef Balogh.

Courses

• MCS 401 - Algorithms - Spring 2012
• MCS 423 - Graph Theory - Spring 2012

Publications

My primary area of research is in extremal combinatorics and graph coloring. I am interested in probabilistic methods, applications of the Regularity Lemma, the dependent random choice method, as well as other topics like perfect graphs, graph minors, and matroids.

• arXiv
• Google Scholar

Papers not on arXiv:

• J. Cooper, J. Lenz, T. LeSaulnier, P. Wenger, D. West. Uniquely $C_4$-Saturated Graphs. Graphs and Combinatorics (published online March 2011) pdf.