John Hunn Smith graduate student

Publications

• Stephen Melczer and John Hunn Smith, “SagePeriods: A SageMath Package for Fast Diagonals of Rational Functions.” accepted in Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematical Software, 2026. [PDF]
• Colin Albert, Olivia Beckwith, Irfan Demetoglu, Robert Dicks, John H. Smith and Jasmine Wang, “Integer Partitions with Large Dyson Rank.” Journal of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society, Mar. 2023. [ArXiv]

Talks & Posters

• Algorithms for Analytic Combinatorics: Positivity Bounds and D-finite Operators: Master's Thesis Presentation, August 2026. [Slides]
• Fast Diagonals of Rational Functions in SageMath: International Congress on Mathematical Software, July 2026. [Slides]
• Explicit error bounds for multivariate analytic combinatorics: AMS Spring Central Meeting 2026 session on Computational Combinatorics, I, April 2026. [Slides]
• Explicit Diagonal Asymptotics of Symmetric Multi-Affine Rational Functions via ACSV: AARMS-CMS Winter 2025 Meeting, December 2025. Won student committee award for best poster. [Poster]
• Computing periods of rational integrals: UW Algorithms and Complexity Reading Group, July 2025. (Blackboard)
• Coefficient positivity and analytic combinatorics: UW Algebraic and Enumerative Combinatorics Seminar, October 2024. [Pre-Seminar Slides] [Seminar Slides]
• Computing asymptotic-guaranteeing index for multivariate generating functions using ACSV: UIUC ECE Virtual Research Symposium , May 2024. (Senior Thesis Presentation) [Slides]

Seminars

I regularly attend the following:

• University of Waterloo Enumerative and Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar
• University of Waterloo Symbolic Computation Group Seminar

Conferences

I was present at the following:

• International Congress on Mathematical Software 2026, held July 20-23, 2026 in Waterloo, Ontario.
• AMS Spring Central Meeting 2026, held April 19-20, 2026 in Fargo, North Dakota.
• CMS Winter Meeting 2025, held from December 5-8, 2025 in downtown Toronto.
• MAA Mathfest 2024, held from August 7–10, 2024 in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Theses

• Algorithms for Analytic Combinatorics: Positivity Bounds and D-Finite Operators: Master's Thesis, advised by Stephen Melczer and Rafael Oliveira, July 2026. [UW Space link]
• Effective Computation of Asymptotic Positivity-Guaranteeing Index Using ACSV: UIUC ECE Senior Thesis, advised by Yuliy Baryshnikov, May 2024. [PDF]

Misc

Here are the LaTeX macros I use for everything. This is a modified version of a stylesheet originally created by Jeff Erickson.