Research

CV (Last updated December, 2013)

Education:

Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (August 2012).

M.S. in the Teaching of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (May 2011).

B.S. in Mathematics (cum laude, Coolidge Otis Chapman Honors Scholar), University of Puget Sound (May 2006).

Papers:

J. Butterfield, H. Keynes, J. Rogness, J. Sukiennik, Analyzing the Gender Gap on an Entrance Exam for Mathematically Talented Students, Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations (2014).

J. Balogh, J. Butterfield, P. Hu, J. Lenz, Mantel's Theorem for Random Hypergraphs. Random Struct. Alg. doi: 10.1002/rsa.20629

J. Balogh, Jane Butterfield, Ping Hu, John Lenz and Dhruv Mubayi, On the Chromatic Thresholds of Hypergraphs, Combinatorics, Probability and Computing, available on CJO2015. Doi: 10.1017/S0963548315000061.

J. Balogh and J. Butterfield Online Ramsey games for triangles in random graphs, Discrete Mathematics Volume 310, Issue 24, (2010) pp. 3653-3657.

J. Balogh and J. Butterfield,  Excluding induced subgraphs: Critical graphs. Random Structures and Algorithms, 38 (2011) pp.100-120.

J. Butterfield, D. Cranston, G. Puleo, D. West, R. Zamani,  Revolutionaries and Spies: Spy-good and spy-bad graphs, Theoretical Computer Science, 463 (2012) pp.35-53.

J. Butterfield, T. Grauman, B. Kinnersley, K. Milans, and C. Stocker, D. West On-line Ramsey Theory for bounded degree graphs Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 18 (2011), Paper P136, 22 pages.

Research Talks:

Each of the below is the most recent version of the talk in question, and so may be different from the slides you saw.

Mantel's Theorem for Random Hypergraphs (last updated for AMS sectional meeting, October 2013)

Ramsey Games for Triangles (last updated for St Olaf seminar, September 2012)

Chromatic Thresholds of Hypergraphs (last updated for AMS sectional meeting, Oct 2011)

Revolutionaries and Spies (last updated for MIGHTY, April 2011)

Fellowships:

REGS3 Thesis Completion Fellowship, August 2011 - August 2012

Dr. Lois M. Lackner Mathematics Fellowship, Fall 2010 - Spring 2011

REGS Fellowship (Summer 2011, Summer 2010, Summer 2009, Summer 2008, Summer 2007)

Trivia:

Erdős number: 2 (via Douglas West)

Academic father: József Balogh

Academic brethren: Noah Prince, Wojciech Samotij, John Lenz, Ping Hu, and Michelle Delcourt

Academic grandfather: Béla Bollobás