Liu, Xizhi (刘西之)

Email: liuxizhi at ustc dot edu dot cn

2025-Present: Special-Term Professor (特任教授) at the School of Mathematical Sciences, USTC.

2022-2025: Research Fellow at the Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, supervised by Prof. Oleg Pikhurko.

I received my Ph.D. in 2022 from the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), under the supervision of Prof. Dhruv Mubayi.

I received my B.S. in 2018 from the School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), where my undergraduate advisor was Prof. Jie Ma.

Research Interests:

Grant:

• Research currently supported by the Excellent Young Talents Program (Overseas) of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Group Member:

• Wanfang Chen, Postdoc, 2025.07-2027.07

Teaching:

• 2025 Fall, MATH5006P Graph Theory, USTC.
• 2025 Apr. 15–19, Mini-course on hypergraph Turan problems, Taiyuan University of Technology.
• 2025 Jan. 01 - Mar. 16, MA9M2 Topics in Combinatorics, University of Warwick.
• 2023 Aug. 21–25, Mini-course on Extremal Hypergraph Theory, Suzhou University.
• 2022 Fall, Extremal Combinatorics (online), Fuzhou University.

Conference/Workshop Organization:

• 2025 July 08–11, Combinatorics and Graph Theory Workshop, USTC.

Publications