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Ararat Harutyunyan, PhD (’11)
Working under Canada Research Chair, Dr. Bojan Mohar, Harutyunyan turned a PhD in discrete mathematics into a career in Graph Theory research.
Ararat Harutyunyan did his PhD in discrete mathematics, focusing his research on Graph Theory. He studied under the supervision of Dr. Bojan Mohar, a Canada Research Chair in the field. 鈥淢y thesis was in the area of graph colouring. This is related to colouring maps and also has applications in scheduling problems and telecommunications, though my own work was more theoretical,鈥� he says.
Harutyunyan considers the Discrete Mathematics group at 911吃瓜 one of the strongest in North America. 鈥淭here are a lot of very strong researchers in this particular area, which is younger than most others. A lot of other universities have faculty whose research interest lie in more traditional areas of mathematics. 911吃瓜 is a young university and it鈥檚 a great place for people who want to specialize in discrete mathematics,鈥� he says.
Currently an Assistant Professor at the Universit茅 Paris-Dauphine in France, Harutyunyan spends his time doing research and teaching. He continues to work on Graph Theory but is exploring other research areas as well. 鈥淚鈥檝e delved a bit more deeply into algorithms and I鈥檓 interested in how we can bring tools from other areas of math into discrete mathematics,鈥� he says.