Igor Balla

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E-mail address: iballa1990atgmail.com
Office address: C516, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
Botanická 554/68a, 60200 Brno, Czech Republic
Phone: +420 793 941 851

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Informatics of Masaryk University, hosted by Daniel Kráľ. I completed my PhD in mathematics at ETH Zürich under the guidance of Benny Sudakov. Previously, I received a master's degree from New York University, a bachelor's degree from Carnegie Mellon University, and held postdoc positions at Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

In the spring of 2025, I will be a Strauch Fellow at the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath) in Berkeley, participating in a research program in extremal combinatorics.

I am broadly interested in combinatorics and its connections to linear algebra. My current focus is on certain extremal problems lying at the intersection of these areas. Apart from being beautiful and interesting in their own right, these problems have connections to probability, geometry, applied mathematics, theoretical computer science, and quantum physics. Check out my research featured in Quanta magazine - A New Path to Equal-Angle Lines

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