David Conlon

David Conlon
Conlon in 2020
Born	1982 (age 41–42) Ireland
Alma mater	University of Cambridge Trinity College Dublin
Awards	Whitehead Prize (2019) European Prize in Combinatorics (2011)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Oxford California Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor	Timothy 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.^[1] 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.