Victor Olaf Larsen

Associate Professor, Mathematics

Education

  • Ph.D., Mathematics, Emory University, 2015
  • M.S., Mathematics, Emory University, 2014
  • B.A., Mathematics, Middlebury College, 2009

Courses Taught

  • MAT112 - Fall 2018, Spring 2019
  • MAT204 - Fall 2018, Fall 2019
  • MAT304 - Fall 2018, Fall 2020
  • MAT151 - Spring 2019, Summer 2019
  • MAT306 - Fall 2019, Spring 2021
  • COM306 - Fall 2019, Spring 2021
  • MAT155 - F19, S20, Summer 2020, F20, Interim 2021, S21, F21, S22, F22
  • MAT205 - Spring 2022, Spring 2023
  • SDV100 - Fall 2019, Fall 2021
  • MAT305 - Spring 2020
  • MAT165 - Fall 2020
  • MAT223 - Spring 2021
  • MAT233 - Spring 2021
  • MAT222 - Fall 2021, Fall 2022

Expertise

  • Graph Theory
  • Competitive Graph Coloring

Scholarships and Creative Work

Book Chapters
  • C. Dunn, J. Firkins Nordstrom, and V. Larsen, "Introduction to competitive graph coloring", appearing in "A Primer for Undergraduate Research: From Groups and Tiles to Frames and Vaccines," Birkhaeuser, (2018)
Publications
  • R. Gould, V. Larsen, and L. Postle, "Structure in sparse k-critical graphs," Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, #156 (2021), pp 194-222
  • Z. Berikkyzy, A. Brandt, S. Jahanbekam, V. Larsen, and D. Rorabaugh, "List-antimagic labeling of vertex-weighted graphs", Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, 23 (2021), #3
  • M. Cream, R. Gould, and V. Larsen, "Forbidden Subgraphs for Chorded Pancyclicity", Discrete Mathematics, 340 (2017), #12, pp 2878-2888
  • J. Diemunsch, N. Graber, L. Kramer, V. Larsen, L. M. Nelsen, L. L. Nelsen, D. Sigler, D. Stolee, and C. Suer, "Color-blind index in graphs of very low degree", Discrete Applied Math, 225 (2017), pp 122-129.
  • C. Dunn, V. Larsen, K. Lindke, T. Retter, and D. Toci, "The game chromatic number of trees and forests", Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, 17 (2015), #2, pp 31-48
  • H. Bermudez, S. Garibaldi, and V. Larsen, "Linear preservers and representations with a 1-dimensional ring of invariants", Transactions of the AMS, 366 (2014), #9, pp 4755-4780
  • V. Larsen, J. Vandenbuscche, and E. Westlund, "Hall spectra and extending precolorings with extra colors," Australasian Journal of Combinatorics, 76 (2020), #3, 346-365