Experts & Expertise

• Combinatorics
• Discrete mathematics
• Mathematics
• Operations research

See https://sites.google.com/site/edwinrvandam/pub for the really complete list of publications

• Ph.D. at Tilburg University, October 4, 1996
  Graphs with few eigenvalues - an interplay between combinatorics and algebra
  supervisor: prof. dr. ir. W.H. Haemers; promotor: prof. dr. S.H. Tijs
• M.Sc. in Technical Mathematics, Eindhoven University of Technology, 1992
  supervisor: prof. dr. A.E. Brouwer

From July 2008: Full professor, Dept. Econometrics and OR, and CentER, Tilburg University
July 2001- July 2008: Associate professor, Dept. Econometrics and OR, and CentER, Tilburg University
July 2001- July 2006: Research fellow, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
August 1998 - July 2001: Assistant professor, Dept. Econometrics, and CentER, Tilburg University
September 1997 - July 1998: Postdoctoral fellow, Dept. Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
September 1996 - August 1997: Assistant professor, Dept. Econometrics, Tilburg University
September 1992 - August 1996: Research student, CentER, Tilburg University

Space-filling designs

Research grants

• September 1997 - July 1998: Postdoctoral fellowship, Dept. Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
• July 2001 - July 2006: Research fellowship, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Editorship

• Guest editor of special issues on "Geometric and Algebraic Combinatorics" of the European Journal of Combinatorics 28 (2007), 31 (2010)
• Guest editor of the special issue "Drago? Cvetkovi?, 70" of Linear Algebra and its Applications 435, no. 10 (2011)
• Editor of the Open Mathematics Journal

Supervision Ph.D. students

• 2007-: Ineke Meuffels, Optimization of time-definite express networks (external Ph.D student at Ortec)
• 2006-2009: Gijs Rennen, Efficient approximation of black-box functions and Pareto sets (cum laude)
• 2002-2006: Bart Husslage, Maximin designs for computer experiments

Conference organization

• Dutch-Belgian Mathematical Conference, April 2004, Tilburg, The Netherlands
• Geometric and Algebraic Combinatorics 3, August 2005, Oisterwijk, The Netherlands
• Geometric and Algebraic Combinatorics 4, August 2008, Oisterwijk, The Netherlands
• Geometric and Algebraic Combinatorics 5, August 2011, Oisterwijk, The Netherlands

Presentations (outside Tilburg, since 2004)

• An odd talk on odd graphs, odd cycles, and odd polynomials, Seventh Slovenian International Conference on Graph Theory, Bled, Slovenia, June 20, 2011.
• Cometric Q-antipodal association schemes - uniformity and linked systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, March 3, 2011.
• Eigenvalues, polynomials, and structure in graphs, University of Waterloo, Canada, July 30, 2010.
• Cometric Q-antipodal association schemes - uniformity and linked systems, International Conference on Algebraic and Geometric Combinatorics, Gyeongju, Korea, July 16, 2010.
• In memory of Dima Fon-Der-Flaass, International Conference on Algebraic and Geometric Combinatorics, Gyeongju, Korea, July 13, 2010.
• Eigenvalues and structure in graphs, Discrete Mathematics Day, Worcester, U.S., May 23, 2010.
• Cometric Q-antipodal association schemes - uniformity and linked systems, Ghent University, Belgium, November 13, 2009.
• Almost distance-regular graphs, AMS meeting, Worcester, U.S., April 25, 2009.
• Amorphic association schemes, University of Delaware, Newark, U.S., April 23, 2009.
• Amorphic association schemes, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, May 15, 2008.
• Maximin Latin hypercube designs, SIAM Conference on Optimization, Boston, U.S., May 10, 2008.
• Amorphic association schemes, Fourth Korea-Japan Workshop on Algebra and Combinatorics, Pohang, Korea, February 2, 2008.
• Bipartite four-class association schemes and related designs, Sixth Slovenian International Conference on Graph Theory, Bled, Slovenia, June 26, 2007.
• Equidistant Latin hypercube designs, Algebraic Combinatorics - An international conference, Sendai, Japan, June 27, 2006.
• Eigenvalues and the structure of graphs, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, May 16, 2006.
• Spectral characterizations of distance-regular graphs, Workshop on Graph Spectra, Aveiro, Portugal, April 11, 2006.
• A new family of distance-regular graphs with unbounded diameter, Ghent University, Belgium, December 9, 2005.
• Cospectral graphs of distance-regular graphs, and new distance-regular graphs, Symposium in honour of Prof.dr. J.H. van Lint, Veldhoven, The Netherlands, October 4, 2005.
• Maximin Latin hypercube designs in two dimensions, SIAM Conference on Optimization, Stockholm, Sweden, May 18, 2005.
• A new family of distance-regular graphs with unbounded diameter, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, December 15, 2004.
• Spectral characterizations of graphs, International workshop on distance-regular graphs and finite geometry, Pusan, Korea, July 25, 2004.
• Maximin Latin hypercube designs in two dimensions, International Conference on Association Schemes, Codes and Designs, Pusan, Korea, July 21, 2004.

E.R. van Dam teaches the following subjects:

• Mathematics 2 (350025) Further information
• Mathematics 2 (350893) Further information
• Linear Algebra (35B203) Further information
• Mathematics 2 for IBA (30J204) Further information

Administrative positions

Academic director B.Sc. Econometrics and Operational Research

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