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Fan Wei

Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Mathematics
Duke Mathematics, Campus Box 90320, Durham, NC 27708
Box 90320, Durham, NC 27708

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Assistant Professor of Mathematics · 2023 - Present Mathematics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Assistant Professor of Computer Science · 2023 - Present Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

In the News


Published March 13, 2023
Duke Math Announces New Hires for Upcoming Academic Year

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Recent Publications


Extremal number of cliques of given orders in graphs with a forbidden clique minor

Journal Article Journal of the London Mathematical Society · December 1, 2025 Alon and Shikhelman initiated the systematic study of a generalization of the extremal function. Motivated by algorithmic applications, the study of the extremal function (Formula presented.), that is, the number of cliques of order (Formula presented.) in ... Full text Cite

Common graphs with arbitrary chromatic number

Journal Article Compositio Mathematica · July 3, 2025 Ramsey’s theorem guarantees for every graph H that any 2-edge-coloring of a sufficiently large complete graph contains a monochromatic copy of H. In 1962, Erdős conjectured that the random 2-edge-coloring minimizes the number of monochromatic copies of K Full text Cite

Undecidability of Polynomial Inequalities in Tournaments

Journal Article International Mathematics Research Notices · June 1, 2025 Many fundamental problems in extremal combinatorics are equivalent to proving certain polynomial inequalities in graph homomorphism densities. In 2011, a breakthrough result by Hatami and Norine showed that it is undecidable to verify polynomial inequaliti ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


Extremal Combinatorics: Themes and Challenging Problems

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2028

On Regularity Methods and Applications in Graph Theory

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2024

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Education


Stanford University · 2023 Ph.D.
Princeton University · 2019 Ph.D.

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