David Conlon

David Conlon
Conlon in 2020
Born1982 (age 43–44)
Ireland
EducationUniversity of Cambridge (PhD, 2009)
Trinity College Dublin (2003)
AwardsWhitehead Prize (2019)
European Prize in Combinatorics (2011)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
California Institute of Technology
Thesis Upper Bounds for Ramsey Numbers  (2009)
Doctoral advisorTimothy Gowers

David Conlon (born 1982) is an Irish mathematician who is a Professor of Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology. His research interests are in Hungarian-style combinatorics, particularly Ramsey theory, extremal graph theory, combinatorial number theory, and probabilistic methods in combinatorics. He proved the first superpolynomial improvement on the Erdős–Szekeres bound on diagonal Ramsey numbers. He won the European Prize in Combinatorics in 2011 for his work in Ramsey theory and for his progress on Sidorenko's conjecture, and the Whitehead Prize in 2019.