Yiwei (Wayne) Ge

Yiwei (Wayne) Ge

I received my Ph.D. in Mathematics from Louisiana State University in May 2026, where I was supervised by James Oxley. My research lies in combinatorics, primarily graph theory and matroid theory, with an emphasis on structural and extremal problems.

Publications

Selected Papers

  1. 2026 / Preprint

    Degeneracy: From Graphs to Matroids

    (with A. Bickle, J. D. Douthitt, and J. Singh) Submitted.

    arXiv
  2. 2026 / Preprint

    The Kővari-Sós-Turán Theorem for GF(q)-representable matroids

    Submitted.

    arXiv
  3. 2026 / Preprint

    Unavoidable flats in connected regular matroids

    Submitted.

    arXiv
  4. 2026 / Preprint

    The connected binary matroids with a pair of elements in no non-spanning circuits

    (with J. Oxley and J. Singh) Submitted.

    arXiv
  5. 2026 / Dissertation

    Extremal Connectivity in Graphs and Matroids

    Ph.D. dissertation, Louisiana State University.

    LSU Repository
  6. 2026 / Preprint

    Super-minimally 3-connected matroids

    (with J. Oxley) Submitted.

    arXiv
  7. 2025 / Preprint

    Reconstruction of C4-free graphs from closed neighborhoods

    (with S. Borgwardt, M. Carr, C. Chen, S. G. Hartke, Y. Huang, and A. Moon) Submitted.

    arXiv
  8. 2025 / Preprint

    Super-minimally 3-connected graphs

    Submitted.

    arXiv
  9. 2025 / Preprint

    Rainbow triangles and the Erdos-Hajnal problem in projective geometries

    (with C. Chun, J. D. Douthitt, T. Huynh, M. E. Kroeker, and P. Nelson) Submitted.

    arXiv
  10. 2026 / Publication

    Unavoidable cycle-contraction minors of large 2-connected graphs

    (with J. Oxley) SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 2026.

  11. 2025 / Publication

    On the oriented diameter of near planar triangulations

    (with X. Liu and Z. Wang) Discrete Mathematics, 2025.

  12. 2025 / Publication

    The algebraic structure of hyperbolic graph braid groups

    (with B. Appiah, P. Dani, C. Hudson, S. Jain, M. Lemoine, J. Murphy, J. Murray, A. Pandikkadan, K. Schreve, and H. Vo) IJAC, 2025.

Talks

Selected Presentations

  1. 2026 / Defense

    Extremal Connectivity in Graphs and Matroids

    Ph.D. dissertation defense, LSU.

    Slides
  2. 2026 / Seminar

    Super-minimally 3-connected graphs

    LSU Combinatorics Seminar.

    Slides
  3. 2025 / Conference

    Unavoidable cycle-contraction minors of large 2-connected graphs

    AMS Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Clemson, SC.

    Slides
  4. 2025 / Seminar

    Unavoidable cycle-contraction minors of large 2-connected graphs

    LSU Combinatorics Seminar.

    Slides
  5. 2024 / Conference

    Oriented diameter of near planar triangulations

    CombinaTexas, College Station, TX.

    Slides
  6. 2024 / Seminar

    Reconstruction of C4-free graphs from closed neighborhoods

    LSU Combinatorics Seminar.

    Slides

Teaching

Teaching

Instructor of record, Louisiana State University.

Math 1550

Differential and Integral Calculus

Fall 2023, Fall 2025

Math 1020/1021

Corequisite Support and College Algebra

Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025

Math 2065

Elementary Differential Equations

Summer 2023

Math 1021

College Algebra

Fall 2022

Math 1552

Analytic Geometry and Calculus II

Summer 2022

Contact

Contact

For full details, see my CV.