Hi! I'm Misha. I do research in combinatorics and teach math, occasionally to high-school students.
You may occasionally also see my name written as Mikhail Lavrov. This is still me. Mikhail and I are the same person.
There are many ways to reach me, but sending an email to misha.p.l@gmail.com is one of the most reliable.
My research is in Ramsey theory and probabilistic combinatorics, a large part of both being focused on problems in graph theory. I received my Ph.D. from the ACO (Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization) program at Carnegie Mellon University, in May 2017. My Ph.D. advisor was Po-Shen Loh.
I am an assistant professor of mathematics at Kennesaw State University, and I have a webpage there, too. From 2017 to 2020, I was a J.L. Doob postdoc in the Math Department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
You may be interested in:
In the fall semester of 2024, I'm teaching the following classes at Kennesaw State University:
Here are all the other classes I've taught here.
I've done a lot of teaching here and there in the past, including:
When I want to do a little bit of math, but not too much math, I answer questions on Math StackExchange (and occasionally ask them, too). I have a list of some of my favorite questions there.
I have a page giving examples of Greco-Latin squares of all possible sizes up to 24-by-24. After that point, by a certain narrow and unpopular reading of the definition, there are no more Greco-Latin squares, because the Greek alphabet only has 24 letters.
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