Education

• Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Houston, 2008 [Advisers: Ermelinda DeLaVina and Klaus Kaiser; Dissertation: "Graph Theoretic Independence and Critical Independent Sets"]
• M.A., Philosophy, University of Houston, 2000

Research Interests

• Size and structure of maximum independent sets in graphs
• Applications of graph theory to chemistry
• Design and use of mathematical conjecture-making programs

Select Publications

• C. E. Larson, and N. Van Cleemput, 2017. Automated conjecturing iii. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 81(3), pp.315-327.
• C. E. Larson, & N. Van Cleemput, 2016. Automated conjecturing I: Fajtlowicz's Dalmatian heuristic revisited. Artificial Intelligence, 231, 17-38.
• D. J. Klein and C. E. Larson, Eigenvalues of Saturated Hydrocarbons, Journal of Mathematical Chemistry 51(6) 2013, 1608–1618.
• C. E. Larson, The Critical Independence Number and an Independence Decomposition, European Journal of Combinatorics 32(2), 2011, 294–300.
• S. Fajtlowicz and C. E. Larson, Graph-theoretic Independence as a Predictor of Fullerene Stability, Chemical-Physics Letters, 377/5-6, 2003, 485–490.

Affiliations

• American Mathematical Society (AMS)
• Mathematics Association of America (MAA)
• Institute for Combinatorics and its Applications (ICA), Fellow
• Association for Computing Machinery

Professional Appointments

• VCU Department of Mathematics and Applies Mathematics, Professor, 2021–present
• VCU Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Associate Professor, 2014–2021
• VCU Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Assistant Professor, 2008–2014
• University of Houston Department of Mathematics, Lecturer, 2000–2008

Awards

• Fulbright Research Scholar, Ghent University (Belgium), 2013
• VCU College of Humanities and Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award winner, 2013
• Mathematics Association of America Project NExT Fellow, 2009–2010
• University of Houston Teaching Excellence Award winner, 2006