Cheng Yeaw Ku Harry Bateman Research Instructor in Mathematics
Office: 374 Sloan Phone: (626) 395-4328 E-mail: cyk@caltech.edu	Fax: (626) 585-1728      Mailing address: Mathematics 253-37, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125 Caltech Math Department Home Page

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Curriculum Vitae

Education
BSc, Mathematics, University of Malaya, 2001
MSc, Ph.D., Mathematics, Queen Mary, University of London, 2005. My advisor was Peter J. Cameron.

Research Interests
Combinatorics.

Publications

· Keselarian bagi Set Terhingga (Parallelism on Finite Sets), 2001, Prosiding Simposium Kebangsaan Matematik Ke-9.

· (with P. J. Cameron) Intersecting families of permutations, European Journal of Combinatorics, 24 (7) (2003), 881-890.[pdf]

· (with I. Leader) An Erdos-Ko-Rado Theorem for Partial Permutations, Discrete Maths, 306 (2006), 74-86. [pdf]

· (with Peter Keevash) A random construction for permutation codes and the covering radius, Des Codes Crypt 41 (2006), 79-86. [pdf]

· (with Tony W. H. Wong) Intersecting families in the alternating group and direct product of symmetric groups, The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 14 (2007), #R25. [pdf]

· (with David Renshaw) Erdos-Ko-Rado Theorems for Permutations and Set Partitions, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, DOI: 10.1016/j.jcta.2007.12.004 [pdf]

· (with Ben McMillan) Independent Sets of Maximal Size in Tensor Powers of Vertex Transitive Graphs, submitted. [pdf]

· (with David Wales) Eigenvalues of the derangement graph, submitted. [pdf]

Teaching

· Ma 193a - Combinatorics of Finite Sets [Fall 2005/2006]

· Ma/CS 6b - Introduction to Discrete Mathematics [Winter 2005/2006]

· Ma 121c - Combinatorial Analysis [Spring 2005/2006]

· Ma 191a - Combinatorics of Finite Sets [Fall 2006/2007]

· Ma/CS 6b - Introduction to Discrete Mathematics [Winter 2006/2007]

· Ma 121c - Combinatorial Analysis [Spring 2006/2007]

· Ma 121a - Combinatorial Analysis [Fall 2007/2008]

· Ma/CS 6b - Introduction to Discrete Mathematics [Winter 2007/2008]

· Ma 121c - Combinatorial Analysis [Spring 2007/2008]

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Journals

· Journal of Combinatorial Designs

· Journal of Combinatorial Theory A

· Journal of Combinatorial Theory B

· Combinatorica

· Combinatorics, Probability and Computing

· European Journal of Combinatorics

· Discrete Math

· Discrete Applied Math

· Electronic Journal of Combinatorics

· Journal of Graph Theory

· Graphs and Combinatorics

· Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics

· Designs, Codes and Cryptography

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My talks

· Intersecting families of permutations, Caltech Combinatorics Seminar, 13 Oct 2005.

· Covering radius for sets of permutations, Caltech Combinatorics Seminar, 20 Oct 2005.

· Independent sets of maximal size in graph powers, Caltech Combinatorics Seminar, 16 Feb 2006.

· Intersecting families in the alternating group and direct product of symmetric groups, Caltech Combinatorics Seminar, 12 Oct 2006.

· Intersecting permutations and partial permutations, University of California San Diego, 20 Feb 2007.

· Intersecting families and designs in Combinatorics, Occidental College, April 6, 2007.

· Non-Trivial Intersecting Families, Caltech Combinatorics Seminar, April 12, 2007.

· Erdos-Ko-Rado for permutations and set partitions, Occidental College, April 13, 2007.

· Erdos-Ko-Rado for permutations and set partitions, AMS Meeting Tucson, April 21, 2007.

· Gallai-Edmonds Decomposition for non-zero roots, Caltech Combinatorics Seminar, October 25, 2007.

Conferences

· SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics , Canada, June 25-28, 2006.

· From Higman-Sims to Urysohn: a random walk through groups, graphs, designs and spaces (Peter Cameron's 60th Birthday Conference), Ambleside, England, UK, 23-26 August 2007.

· C&O@40 Conference University of Waterloo, Canada, June 18-23, 2007.

· Joint Mathematics Meeting , San Diego, Jan 06-Jan 09, 2008.

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