Department of Mathematics
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Linyuan Lu
Title: | Department Chair Professor |
Department: | Mathematics College of Arts and Sciences |
Email: | lu@math.sc.edu |
Phone: | 803-777-4154 |
Office: | LeConte 403, 419A |
Resources: | My Website Curriculum Vitae [pdf] Department of Mathematics |

Education
Ph.D. | Combinatorics | University of California, San Diego | 2002 |
M.S. | Mathematics | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia | 1999 |
M.S. | Computer Science | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia | 1999 |
B.S. | Mathematics | Nankai University, Tianjin, China | 1991 |
Experience
2018 -- Present | Department Chair | University of South Carolina |
2013 -- present | Professor | University of South Carolina |
2009 -- 2013 | Associate Professor | University of South Carolina |
2004 -- 2009 | Assistant Professor | University of South Carolina |
2002 -- 2004 | Postdoc | University of California, San Diego |
Courses Taught:
- Math 141: Calculus I
- Math 142: Calculus II
- Math 198: Introduction to Careers and Research in the Mathematical Sciences
- Math 241: Vector Calculus
- Math 242: Elemetary Differential Equations
- Math 374: Discrete Structures
- Math 526: Numerical Linear Algebra
- Math 570: Discrete Optimization
- Math 574: Discrete Mathematics
- Math 576: Combinatorial Game Theory
- Math 776: Graph Theory I
- Math 777: Graph Theory II
- Math 778: Topic Courses in Discrete Mathematics
- Probabilistic Methods
- Spectral Graph Theory
- Large Networks and Graph Limits
- Extreme Graph Theory
Research
Dr. Lu is well-known nationally and internationally for his research work on large information networks, sparse random graphs, probabilistic methods, extremal problems on hypergraphs and posets, spectral graph/hypergraph theory, Ramsey type problems, Discrete Geometry, and other problems in graph theory. He has published 1 book, 2 book chapters, 70 Journal papers, and 13 conference papers. He was invited to give lecture series internationally four times, twelve 45-minutes talks at national and international conferences, and twenty-seven colloquium/seminar talks at other universities, and forty-eight 25-minute talks at various conferences and workshops. He has been supported by 6 NSF grants and 2 ONR grants. According to Google Scholar, Dr. Lu has 9599 citations with h-index 29 and i10-index 58. He had solved a $100-prized Erdos problem.
Extermal Grants: NSF DMS 2038080, ONR N00014-17-1-2842, NSF DMS-1600811, NSF DMS-1300547, ONR N00014-13-1-0717, NSF DUE-CCLI-1020692, NSF DMS-1000475, and NSF DMS-0701111.
Selected publications:
Book and book chapters:
- Fan Chung and Linyuan Lu, Complex graphs and networks, CBMS Regional Conference Series in Mathematics; number 107, (2006), 264+vii pages. ISBN-10: 0-8218-3657-9, ISBN-13: 978-0-8218-3657-6.
- Linyuan Lu, Austin Mohr, and Laszlo Szekely, Quest for Negative Dependency Graphs, in Recent Advances in Harmonic Analysis and Applications: In Honor of Konstantin Oskolkov (Eds. D. Bilyk, L. DeCarli, A. Petukhov, A. M. Stokolos, B. D. Wick), Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, (2012) 243-258.
- William Aiello, Fan Chung, and Linyuan Lu. Random evolution in massive graphs, in Handbook on Massive Data Sets, (Eds. James Abello et al.), (2002) 97–122.
Recent Journal papers:
- Linyuan Lu, Matthew H.Y. Xie, Arthur L.B. Yang, Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials of fan matroids, wheel matroids and whirl matroids, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 192, November 2022, 105665
- Mark Ellingham, Linyuan Lu, Zhiyu Wang, Maximum spectral radius of outerplanar 3-uniform hypergraphs, Journal of Graph Theory, 100, Issue 4, (2022), pp 671-685.
- Linyuan Lu and Jushua Thompson, Poset Ramsey Numbers for Boolean Lattices, Order, 39 (2022), 171–185.
- Shuliang Bai and Linyuan Lu, Turán Density of 2-Edge-Colored Bipartite Graphs with Application on {2,3}-Hypergraphs, The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 28 Issue 3 (2021), P3.42.
- Linyuan Lu and Zhiyu Wang, On the cover Turán number of Berge hypergraphs, European Journal of Combinatorics, 98, December 2021, 103416.
- Linyuan Lu and Zhiyu Wang, On Hamiltonian Berge cycles in [3]-uniform hypergraphs, Discrete Mathematics 344, Issue 8, August 2021, 112462
- David Cushing, Riikka Kangaslampi, Yong Lin, Shiping Liu, Linyuan Lu, Shing-Tung Yau,Ricci-flat cubic graphs with girth five, Communications in Analysis and Geometry, 29 (7) (2021), 1559 – 1570.
- Alice L. L. Gao, Linyuan Lu, Matthew H. Y. Xie, Arthur L. B. Yang, Philip B. Zhang, The Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials of uniform matroids, Advances in Applied Mathematics, 122 (2021), 102117.
- Liying Kang, Lele Liu, Linyuan Lu, Zhiyu Wang, The extremal p-spectral radius of Berge- hypergraphs, Linear Algebra and its Applications, 610, (2021) 608-624.
- Linyuan Lu and Zhiyu Wang, Anti-Ramsey Number of Edge-Disjoint Rainbow Spanning Trees, SIAM J. Discrete Math., 34(4), (2020) 2346-2362.
- Linyuan Lu and Zhiyu Wang, On the cover Ramsey number of Berge hypergraphs, Discrete Mathematics, 343(9), (2020), 111972.
- Mohammad Ali Javidian, Linyuan Lu, Marco Valtorta, Zhiyu Wang, On a hypergraph probabilistic graphical model, Annals of Mathematics and Articial Intelligence 88 (2020), 1003-1033.
- Lele Liu and Linyuan Lu, The α-normal labeling method for computing the p-spectral radii of uniform hypergraphs, Linear and Multilinear Algebra, published online on May 2020.
- Shuliang Bai and Linyuan Lu, Spectral radius of {0, 1}-tensor with prescribed number of ones, Linear Algebra Appl. 558 (2018), 205-235.
- Linyuan Lu and Zhiyu Wang, On the size-Ramsey number of tight paths. SIAM J. Discrete Math. 32 (2018), no. 3, 2172-2179.
- Shuliang Bai and Linyuan Lu, A Bound on the Spectral Radius of Hypergraphs with e Edges, Linear Algebra Appl., 549, (2018), 203-218.