Jeff Dinitz

Infobox_Scientist
name = Jeff Dinitz


caption =
birth_date = 1952
birth_place = Brooklyn, New York
residence = Hinesburg, Vermont
nationality = American
field = Mathematics, Combinatorics
work_institution = University of Vermont
alma_mater = Carnegie Mellon University, Ohio State University
known_for = Dinitz conjecture
religion = Judaism

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 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".

Bibliography

* " [http://www.amazon.com/dp/1584885068 Handbook of Combinatorial Designs, Second Edition] " by Charles J. Colbourn and Jeffrey H. Dinitz, 2006
* " [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0849389488 CRC Handbook of Combinatorial Designs] " by Charles J. Colbourn and Jeffrey H. Dinitz, 1996
* " [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0471531413 Contemporary Design Theory: A Collection of Surveys] " by Jeffrey H. Dinitz and Douglas R. Stinson, 1992

External links

* [http://www.emba.uvm.edu/~dinitz Home Page at University of Vermont]
* [http://www.emba.uvm.edu/%7Edinitz/03MATH.html Copy of "New York Times" article]