{"id":6,"date":"2016-09-04T23:40:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T03:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencescosmaincms.cm.ucf.edu\/math\/zxsong\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2025-10-19T09:49:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T13:49:34","slug":"6-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/math\/zxsong\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-372 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/math\/zxsong\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-25-at-18.21.05.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"288\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 280px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 280\/288;\" \/><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Zi-Xia Song, Professor<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/math\">Department of Mathematics<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ucf.du\/\">University of Central Florida<\/a><br \/>\nOffice Location:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/map.ucf.edu\/?show=12\">MSB 302<\/a><br \/>\nPhone Number: (407) 823-2493<br \/>\nFax: (407) 823-6254<br \/>\nEmail:\u00a0<a>Zixia.Song at ucf.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Summary Information<\/h2>\n<p>I received my Ph.D in 2004 from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.gatech.edu\/\">Georgia Tech<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aco.gatech.edu\/\">Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization<\/a>, under the supervision of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.gatech.edu\/~thomas\">Robin Thomas<\/a> (August 22, 1962 &#8211; March 26, 2020).\u00a0 Before coming to UCF, I was a Zassenhaus Assistant Professor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.ohio-state.edu\/\">The Ohio State University<\/a> for one year.<\/p>\n<p>My mathematical interests span Graph Theory, Combinatorics, Optimization and Algorithms. My current research interests primarily focus on Hadwiger&#8217;s Conjecture and its strengthenings and wekennings; Ramsey related problems including size of co-critical graphs and Ramsey numbers of graphs; and the Erdos-Lovasz Tihany Conjecture.<\/p>\n<p>My work is currently supported by the<strong> National Science Foundation<\/strong>\u00a0 under Grant No. DMS-2153945; and in the past\u00a0 by the<strong> National Science Foundation<\/strong> under Grant No. DMS-1854903, and the <strong>National Security Agency<\/strong> under Grant No. H98230-09-1-0055.<\/p>\n<p>I serve as an <strong>Associate Editor<\/strong> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/journal\/discrete-mathematics\/about\/editorial-board\"><strong>Discrete Mathematics<\/strong><\/a>, a peer-reviewed journal in Mathematics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Zi-Xia Song, Professor Department of Mathematics University of Central Florida Office Location:\u00a0MSB 302 Phone Number: (407) 823-2493 Fax: (407) 823-6254 Email:\u00a0Zixia.Song at ucf.edu Summary Information I received my Ph.D in 2004 from Georgia Tech in Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization, under the supervision of Robin Thomas (August 22, 1962 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/math\/zxsong\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/math\/zxsong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/math\/zxsong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/math\/zxsong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/math\/zxsong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/math\/zxsong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/math\/zxsong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/math\/zxsong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/math\/zxsong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}