About Ron Graham A few words on research for graduate students A website for Erdös' problems on graphs Some clarification about quasirandom graphs The convocation speech at the University of Waterloo

Fan Chung Graham (professional name: Fan Chung , Chinese name ) is a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at UC San Diego. She holds the Paul Erdos Chair in Combinatorics. She paints watercolors, especially in seascape and portraits (click the Erdös' painting below). A good part of her work in mathematics was described in the AMS Notics article The mathematical life of Fan Chung by Steve Butler.


Here is a reversed chronological list of her work in mathematics and computer science:

• Graph theory in the information age, (an article for Notices of AMS with translation in 中文)
  • Random graphs with general degree distributions
  • Percolation on any given host graph
  • Pagerank of graphs and local partitioning algorithms
  • Network games
• Spectral Graph Theory
• Quasi-random graphs
• Unavoidable graphs and universal graphs
• Ramsey theory

Other topics that she has investigated now and then include:
| discrete geometry| algorithms| Steiner trees| Buckyball| hypercubes| codes|.

Some links: Vita (pdf) | bios --- short html, long html, Chinese 中文, traditional or simplified. Publications: research papers, books, articles and patents. A biography in the MacTutor History of Mathematics The mathematical life of Fan Chung, written by Steve Butler, appeared in AMS Notices, 67 (2020), pp. 327--335. Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Combinatorics . Profiles: An interview, Why The key to a mathematical life is collaboration, in Quanta Magazine 2025. A video, for the Revelle Medal 2024. An interview in Intrepid Mathematician, Paints by numbers. A page at wiki A film, "On several Chinese women mathematicians" by Shing-Shen Chern in Zhuan Ji We Xue 1995 (in Chinese). 學數學的女孩們 Some talks for a general audience: "Mathematics of PageRank", Invited Address, given at the math annual meeting January 2008. "New Directions in Graph Theory", Noether Lecture, given at the math annual meeting 2009. A tribute to Herb Wilf Resources for quasirandom graphs and structures. The painting of Russell and me (to the right and above) is a work of Maria Klawe, my watercolor teacher. A drawing of Fan (to the right) by LeUyen Pham. Please note, due to anti-spam filters, some email might not reach fan at ucsd.edu.