Benjamin Rossman, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics

Contact Info:

Office Location:	Room D110, LSRC, 308 Research Drive, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	(919) 660-6516
Email Address:
Web Page:	https://users.cs.duke.edu/~br148/

Teaching (Fall 2022):

• COMPSCI 390.01, COMPUTER SCIENCE (TOP) Synopsis

  LSRC D106, TuTh 03:30 PM-04:45 PM

  (also cross-listed as MATH 390.02)

Office Hours:

Please email me for office hours.

Education:

Ph.D.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2010

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Rossman, B, Shrinkage of decision lists and DNF formulas, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, Lipics, vol. 185 (February, 2021), ISBN 9783959771771 [doi]  [abs]
2. Kawarabayashi, KI; Rossman, B, A polynomial excluded-minor approximation of treedepth, Journal of the European Mathematical Society, vol. 24 no. 4 (January, 2021), pp. 1449-1470 [doi]  [abs]
3. Kush, D; Rossman, B, Tree-depth and the formula complexity of subgraph isomorphism, Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (Proceedings), vol. 2020-November (November, 2020), pp. 31-42, ISBN 9781728196213 [doi]  [abs]
4. Rossman, B, Thresholds in the Lattice of Subspaces of Fqn, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 12118 LNCS (January, 2020), pp. 504-515, ISBN 9783030617912 [doi]  [abs]
5. Cavalar, BP; Kumar, M; Rossman, B, Monotone Circuit Lower Bounds from Robust Sunflowers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 12118 LNCS (January, 2020), pp. 311-322, ISBN 9783030617912 [doi]  [abs]

Recent Grant Support

• Rossman Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship (transfer), Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2020/01-2021/09.