Sam Spiro

Email: sas703 {at} scarletmail.rutgers [dot] edu
Office: Hill 207

I am an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Rutgers University under the supervision of Bhargav Narayanan and am currently on the job market. Previously I was a PhD student at UC San Diego under the supervision of Jacques Verstraëte, and partially under the supervision of Fan Chung. My CV can be found here.

My research interests are in combinatorics, and I am particularly interested in graph theory, extremal combinatorics, and probabilistic combinatorics. Many of the problems I work on involve extremal properties of F-free hypergraphs and of random objects such as random graphs and permutations; but I am happy to work on any problem as long as it's interesting or fun!

Selected publications:

• Sidorenko Hypergraphs and Random Turan Numbers (with Jiaxi Nie). Submitted, 2023.


• The Random Turan Problem for Theta Graphs (with Gwen McKinley). Submitted, 2023.


• Card Guessing with Partial Feedback (with Persi Diaconis, Ron Graham, and Xiaoyu He). Combinatorics, Probability, and Computing, 2020.


• Counting Hypergraphs with Large Girth (with Jacques Verstraëte). Journal of Graph Theory, 2020.


• A Smoother Notion of Spread Hypergraphs. Combinatorics, Probability, and Computing, 2021.