Fun Facts

Erdös-Bacon number

With an Erdös number of 3 and a Bacon number of 3, my Erdös-Bacon number is 6.

My collaboration path to Paul Erdös

A. Goel, C. Archetti and M. Savelsbergh, Truck Driver Scheduling in Australia (2012), in: Computers & Operations Research, 39:5(1122-1132) [DOI]
B. Hunsaker, A. J. Kleywegt, M. W. P. Savelsbergh and C. A. Tovey, Optimal Online Algorithms for Minimax Resource Scheduling (2003), in: SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 16:4(555–590) [DOI]
N. J. Calkin, P. Erdös, and C. A. Tovey, New Ramsey Bounds from Cyclic Graphs of Prime Order (1997), in: SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 10:3(381–387) [DOI]

My path to Kevin Bacon

The character Aswin in the German movie 13 Semester was inspired by my undergrad years with mathematician and screenwriter Oliver Ziegenbalg.

This is my Bacon path: