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Edward R. Scheinerman
Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics
Vice Dean for Education, Whiting School of Engineering
Johns Hopkins University

Postal Address	Office of Academic Affairs, Shaffer 103 Whiting School of Engineering 3400 North Charles Street The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland 21218 USA
*Office*	Shaffer Hall 102C
*Phone/Text*	+1-410-516-7210 (direct line) +1-410-516-7395 (Academic Affairs)
*Email*	`ers@jhu.edu`
*Academic Appointments*	Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics (primary) Department of Computer Science (secondary)
*Calendar*	To schedule an appointment, please contact Jessica Swadow, 410-516-7395.

Teaching

Spring 2012	550.472/672 Graph Theory Lecture: Monday/Wednesday/Friday 12:00–12:50, Whitehead 304 Section: Thursday 10:30–11:20, Whitehead 304 TA: Kate Richer. Office hours: Wednesdays, 2:30-4:30, Whitehead 212 Grader: Qi Wang. Office hours: Tuesdays, 5:00-6:00, Whitehead 212
Office Hours	No fixed office hours, but I'm happy to meet with you by appointment (see “Calendar” above).
LaTeX	All math students should learn LaTeX.
Policies	Please see my homework and examination policies.
Student Contact	JHU students (and others) can find me on Facebook in addition to email and phone listed above.

Research

Discrete mathematics, especially graph theory, partially ordered sets, random graphs, and combinatorics, as well as applications to robotics and networks.

Professional Society Memberships

American Mathematical Society
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Mathematical Association of America
Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications

Education

Princeton University, Mathematics, M.A. 1981 and Ph.D. 1984.
Brown University, Mathematics, Sc.B. 1980.

Books

NEW! Mathematical Notation: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists, available now.
C++ for Mathematicians, CRC Press. Also available in Greek.
Mathematics: A Discrete Introduction, Brooks/Cole, second edition.
- First edition available in Spanish from Thomson Learning in Mexico and in Portuguese from Thomson Learning in Brazil.
- Second edition available in Portuguese.
- Third edition, coming soon.
Fractional Graph Theory: A Rational Approach to the Theory of Graphs, coauthored with Daniel Ullman, Wiley, 1997. Available for free by clicking on the title. New! This book is back in print. Click on the title link for details.
Invitation to Dynamical Systems, Prentice Hall, 1996. Available for free by clicking on the title. New! This book is also back in print. Click on the title link for more details.

Academic Family

Douglas West, dissertation advisor. Through Doug, I can trace my academic ancestry to Hermann von Helmholtz and Nicolaus Copernicus.
Jerry Spinrad, evil twin.
Ann Trenk, Ph.D. 1991, Generalized Perfect Graphs.
Jennifer Zito, postdoc, 1990-91.
Paul Tanenbaum, Ph.D. 1995 (joint with Michael Goodrich), On Geometric Representations of Partial Orders.
Karen Singer Cohen, Ph.D. 1996, Random Intersection Graphs.
Gregory Levin, Ph.D. 1998, Selected Topics in Fractional Graph Theory.
Donniell Fishkind, Ph.D. 1998, Posets, Graphs, and Matrices.
- Al Aksakalli, Ph.D. 2007, Protocols for Stochastic Shortest Path Problems with Dynamic Learning.
Michael Capalbo, Ph.D. 2001 (joint with Rao Kosaraju), Universal Graphs.
Christine Nickel, Ph.D. 2007, Random Dot Product Graphs: A Model for Social Networks.
Kimberly Tucker, Ph.D. 2007, Exact and Asymptotic Dot Product Representations of Graphs.
Libby Beer, Ph.D. 2009 (joint with Carey Priebe), Latent Random Position Graphs: Theory, Inference, and Applications.
Elizabeth Reilly, Ph.D. 2010, Random Threshold Graphs and Related Topics.

Photos

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