A Website of Jonah Blasiak

Hi. I am a math graduate student at UC Berkeley. My research interests include graph theory, enumerative combinatorics, and matroid theory, and more recently some algebra and topology.

Recent work

The Number Zero

Poincare Series

The Berglund complex and multigraded Poincare series related to geometric monomial ideals and degree 2 monomial ideals, with Patricia Hersh PoincareJuly20.pdf

Hadwiger's conjecture

A special case of Hadwiger's conjecture, with Paul Seymour, but not coauthored with him. Version submitted to Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B: minorconjecturepaper.pdf .
A longer version which was my senoir thesis: minorconjecture2.pdf

Random graphs

Random Oxford graphs. Accepted by Stochastic Processes and their Applications, with Rick Durrett rndgr0604.pdf .
Also on ArXiv

Less recent work (some links under construction)

Longest Common Subsequence Problem

JPfall
JPspring
Matlab code to generate the transition matrices: blcsrreach_opt.m

Group Theory Music Project

A link to my COS325 final project: Group Theory Music

Matrix Inequality

matrix inequality.tex
symmetric case.tex

Matroids

Several definitions of matroids, with L. Traldi, J. Rowe and O. Yacobi, accepted for publication in Ars Combinatoria