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Current students and postdocs:

PhD students:

Weihao Yan (2025-2029), joint PhD program between Hebei Normal University (China) and Ghent University (Belgium). Cosupervisors: Bart De Bruyn (Ghent University) and Salvatore Tringali (Hebei Normal University)

Postdocs:

Anwita Bhowmik (2024-2026)

Former students and postdocs:

Master students:

Dmitry Panasenko (2019), Thesis: "The smallest strictly Neumaier graph and its generalisations", doi

Courses at Hebei Normal University

Springs 2022-2025; Autumns 2022-2025 - Introductory combinatorics:
- Richard A. Brualdi, Introductory Combinatorics, 2009 (5th Edition)
- Errata

Springs 2022-2025 - Introduction to graph theory:
- Robin J. Wilson, Introduction to Graph Theory, 2010 (5th Edition)
- R. Balakrishnan, K. Ranganathan, A textbook of graph theory, 2012 (2nd Edition)

Courses at Chelyabinsk State University

Spring 2021 - Elliptic curves in cryptography:
- Lawrence C. Washington, Elliptic Curves: Number Theory and Cryptography, Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2008 (2nd Edition).
- Errata

Autumns 2012-2016 - Finite fields and their applications:
- Rudolf Lidl, Harald Niederreiter, Finite Fields, Cambridge University Press, 1996 (2nd Edition).
- Rudolf Lidl, Günter Pilz, Applied Abstract Algebra, Springer-Verlag New York, 1998 (2nd Edition).

Lectorium on Algebraic Graph Theory at Mathematical Center in Akademgorodok

Minicourse: EKR-type results for graphs defined on finite fields and related problems, Novosibirsk, Russia, Spring 2023.

Lecture 1: A conjecture by van Lint & MacWilliams and its confirmation by Blokhuis. slides video
Lecture 2: EKR properties of graphs. slides video
Lecture 3: Possible analogues of the Hilton-Milner theorem for Paley graphs of square order and Peisert graphs. slides video
Lecture 4: Extremal Peisert-type graphs without strict-EKR property. slides video

Guest lectures:

Minicourse: Erdős-Ko-Rado combinatorics of strongly regular graphs, for PhD students at Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, January-February 2025.

Lecture 1: Erdős-Ko-Rado (EKR) theorem and an alternative approach to it.
Lecture 2: Strongly regular graphs and their EKR properties.
Lecture 3: EKR properties of the block graphs of Desarguesian orthogonal arrays.
Lecture 4: EKR theorem for Paley graphs of square order.
Lecture 5: Possible analogue of the Hilton-Milner theorem for Paley graphs of square order.
Lecture 6: EKR properties of 2-designs.