Faculty

Dwight Duffus
Professor, Goodrich C. White Professor
Office: E430
Phone: 404-727-7957
Office hours
  • Monday: 10:30am - 12:00pm
  • Wednesday: 2:30pm - 4:00pm
  • and by appointment
Teaching: Spring 2010
  • MATH 116 (000): Life Sciences Calculus II, MWF 9:35am - 10:25am
  • MATH 116 (LA1): Life Sciences Calculus II, M 3:00pm - 3:50pm
  • MATH 116 (LC1): Life Sciences Calculus II, W 8:30am - 9:20am
  • MATH 221 (002): Linear Algebra, MWF 10:40am - 11:30am
Research
  • Ordered combinatorial and algebraic structures
Recent publications
  • Retracts of posets: the chain-gap property and the selection property are independent, Algebra Universalis, (Oct 2008) (with C. Laflamme and M. Pouzet)
  • Antichains in the homomorphism order of graphs, Comment. Math. Univ. Carolin. 48 (2007) 571 - 583 (with P.L. Erdos, J. Nesetril, and L. Soukup)
  • Chromatic numbers and homomorphisms of large girth hypergraphs, Topics in Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms and Combinatorics 26 (2006) 455-471 (with V. Rodl, B. Sands, and N. Sauer)
  • Splitting numbers of grids, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 12 (2005) R17: 31 pp. (with B. Sands)
  • Chromatic numbers and graph products, Discrete Mathematics 300 (2005) 91-99 (with N. Sauer)
  • Distributive lattices with the splitting property, Algebra Universalis 49 (2003) 13-33 (with B. Sands)
  • Some progress on the Aharoni-Korman conjecture, Discrete Mathematics 250 (2002) 79-91 (with T. Goddard)
  • Minimum-sized fibres in distributive lattices, J Austral Math Soc 70 (2001) 337-350 (with B. Sands)
  • An ordered set of size aleph 1 with monochromatic maximal chains, Order 17 (2000) 227-238 (with T. Goddard)
  • An inequality for the sizes of prime filters of finite distributive lattices, Discrete Math 201 (1999) 89-99 (with B. Sands)
  • Biased positional games on hypergraphs, Studia Sci Math Hung 34 (1998) 141-149 (with T. Luczak and V. Rodl)
  • Endomorphisms of partially ordered sets, Combinatorics, Probability and Computing 7 (1998) 33-46 (with T. Luczak, V. Rodl and A. Rucinski)
  • The complexity of the fixed point property, Order 13 (1996), 209-218 (with T. Goddard)
  • On the computational complexity of ordered subgraph recognition, RS&A 7 (1995), 223-268 (with M. Ginn and V. Rodl)
Education
  • Ph.D. (1978) University of Calgary
  • M.Sc. (1976) University of Calgary
  • B.A.(Hon.) (1974) University of Regina
Activities
  • Editor: ORDER
  • Referee: Discrete Mathematics, SIAM Journal of Discrete Mathematics, ORDER
  • Member: SIAM [DMAG], AMS, MAA