Jeff Dinitz

Jeff Dinitz
Born	1952 Brooklyn, New York
Residence	Hinesburg, Vermont
Nationality	American
Fields	Mathematics, Combinatorics
Institutions	University of Vermont
Alma mater	Carnegie Mellon University, Ohio State University
Doctoral advisor	R. M. Wilson
Known for	Dinitz conjecture

Jeffrey H. Dinitz (born 1952) is an American mathematician, currently teaching combinatorics at the University of Vermont. He is best known for proposing the Dinitz conjecture, which became a major theorem.

Jeff Dinitz is married to Susan Dinitz and has three children, Mike, Amy, and Tom.

XFL Scheduling

Dinitz is also well known for scheduling the first season of the now-defunct XFL football league. He and a colleague from the Czech Republic, Dalibor Froncek, offered the then-brand-new XFL league their abilities to draft complicated schedules using math formulas. The XFL administration quickly agreed, which "surprised" Dinitz greatly. After some time on the computer, Dinitz and Froncek sent the XFL a draft schedule, and the new league gratefully accepted. Although the XFL folded after only one season, Dinitz was happy that "(he and Froncek) got to go to the championship game in Los Angeles".^[1]

Bibliography

• Handbook of Combinatorial Designs, Second Edition by Charles J. Colbourn and Jeffrey H. Dinitz, 2006
• CRC Handbook of Combinatorial Designs by Charles J. Colbourn and Jeffrey H. Dinitz, 1996
• Contemporary Design Theory: A Collection of Surveys by Jeffrey H. Dinitz and Douglas R. Stinson, 1992

References

1. Dinitz, Jeffrey H.; Fronček, Dalibor (2000), "Scheduling the XFL", Proc. 31st Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing (Boca Raton, FL, 2000), Congressus Numerantium 147, pp. 5–15, MR 1817983.

External links

• Home Page at University of Vermont
• Copy of New York Times article
• Jeffrey Howard Dinitz at the Mathematics Genealogy Project