Julian Sahasrabudhe

Julian Sahasrabudhe

I am a Canadian mathematician interested in extremal and probabilistic combinatorics, and intersections with probability, analysis and combinatorial number theory. Most recently, I have been interested in Ramsey theory on graphs, random polynomials and random matrices.

I am a professor of mathematics in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS) at the University of Cambridge. I started in September 2021. In August 2021, I was awarded the European Prize in Combinatorics. In October 2023, I was awarded the Salem Prize. In June 2024, I was awarded the Whitehead Prize, and in July 2025 I was awarded the MCA Prize (Mathematical Congress of the Americas). In 2026, I was awarded the Adams Prize and will be a speaker at the ICM in Philadelphia.

In 2024, I was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant.

Prior to my appointment at Cambridge, I was a Junior Research Fellow at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge (2017–2021). In 2017–2018, I visited Rob Morris at IMPA (Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as a post-doc of excellence. I did my PhD under the supervision of Béla Bollobás at the University of Memphis, defending in March 2017.

My email is jdrs2 (at) cam (dot) ac (dot) uk.

Selected papers

M. Campos, M. Jenssen, M. Michelen, J. Sahasrabudhe

A new lower bound for the Ramsey numbers R(3, k)

Submitted. arXiv

P. Balister, B. Bollobás, M. Campos, S. Griffiths, E. Hurley, R. Morris, J. Sahasrabudhe, M. Tiba

Upper bounds for multicolour Ramsey numbers

J. Amer. Math. Soc. 39(3) (2026), 765–780. arXiv

A. Sah, J. Sahasrabudhe, M. Sawhney

On the Spielman–Teng conjecture

Geom. Funct. Anal. 35(2) (2025), 633–671. arXiv

M. Campos, M. Jenssen, M. Michelen, J. Sahasrabudhe

A new lower bound for sphere packing

Submitted. arXiv

A. Sah, J. Sahasrabudhe, M. Sawhney

The limiting spectral law for sparse iid matrices

Forum Math. Pi, to appear. arXiv

M. Campos, S. Griffiths, R. Morris, J. Sahasrabudhe

An exponential improvement for diagonal Ramsey

Ann. of Math. (2) 203(3) (2026), 869–932. arXiv

M. Campos, M. Jenssen, M. Michelen, J. Sahasrabudhe

The least singular value of a random symmetric matrix

Forum Math. Pi 12 (2024), e3, 69 pp. arXiv

M. Campos, M. Jenssen, M. Michelen, J. Sahasrabudhe

The singularity probability of a random symmetric matrix is exponentially small

J. Amer. Math. Soc. 38(1) (2025), 179–224. arXiv

P. Balister, B. Bollobás, R. Morris, J. Sahasrabudhe, M. Tiba

Flat Littlewood polynomials exist

Ann. of Math. (2) 192(3) (2020), 977–1004. arXiv

P. Balister, B. Bollobás, R. Morris, J. Sahasrabudhe, M. Tiba

On the Erdős covering problem: the density of the uncovered set

Invent. Math. 228 (2022), 377–414. arXiv

M. Michelen, J. Sahasrabudhe

Central limit theorems and the geometry of polynomials

J. Eur. Math. Soc. 28(5) (2026), 2261–2305. arXiv

J. Sahasrabudhe

Counting zeros of cosine polynomials: on a problem of Littlewood

Adv. Math. 343 (2019), 495–521. arXiv

M. Michelen, J. Sahasrabudhe

Central limit theorems from the roots of probability generating functions

Adv. Math. 358 (2019), 106840. arXiv

J. Sahasrabudhe

Exponential patterns in arithmetic Ramsey theory

Acta Arith. 182(1) (2018), 13–42. arXiv

P. Balister, B. Bollobás, R. Morris, J. Sahasrabudhe, M. Tiba

The structure and number of Erdős covering systems

J. Eur. Math. Soc. 26(1) (2024), 75–109. arXiv

Papers by topic

Ramsey numbers

R. Morris, J. Sahasrabudhe, J. Verstraete

On the Erdős–Rogers function

Submitted. arXiv

C. Beke, A. Li, J. Sahasrabudhe

The multicolour size Ramsey number of a path

Submitted. arXiv

M. Campos, M. Jenssen, M. Michelen, F. Pfender, J. Sahasrabudhe

A polynomial improvement for the odd cycle–complete Ramsey numbers

Submitted. arXiv

M. Campos, M. Jenssen, M. Michelen, J. Sahasrabudhe

A new lower bound for the Ramsey numbers R(3, k)

Submitted. arXiv

P. Balister, B. Bollobás, M. Campos, S. Griffiths, E. Hurley, R. Morris, J. Sahasrabudhe, M. Tiba

Upper bounds for multicolour Ramsey numbers

J. Amer. Math. Soc. 39(3) (2026), 765–780. arXiv

M. Campos, S. Griffiths, R. Morris, J. Sahasrabudhe

An exponential improvement for diagonal Ramsey

Ann. of Math. (2) 203(3) (2026), 869–932. arXiv

Random matrices and polynomials

A. Sah, J. Sahasrabudhe, M. Sawhney

On the Spielman–Teng conjecture

Geom. Funct. Anal. 35(2) (2025), 633–671. arXiv

A. Sah, J. Sahasrabudhe, M. Sawhney

The limiting spectral law for sparse iid matrices

Forum Math. Pi, to appear. arXiv

M. Campos, M. Jenssen, M. Michelen, J. Sahasrabudhe

The least singular value of a random symmetric matrix

Forum Math. Pi 12 (2024), e3, 69 pp. arXiv

A. Sah, J. Sahasrabudhe, M. Sawhney

The sparse circular law, revisited

Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 57(2) (2025), 330–358. arXiv

M. Campos, M. Jenssen, M. Michelen, J. Sahasrabudhe

The singularity probability of a random symmetric matrix is exponentially small

J. Amer. Math. Soc. 38(1) (2025), 179–224. arXiv

M. Michelen, J. Sahasrabudhe

Random polynomials: the closest roots to the unit circle

Submitted. arXiv

M. Campos, M. Jenssen, M. Michelen, J. Sahasrabudhe

Singularity of random symmetric matrices revisited

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 150(7) (2022), 3147–3159. arXiv

Probability and the geometry of polynomials

M. Michelen, J. Sahasrabudhe

Central limit theorems and the geometry of polynomials

J. Eur. Math. Soc. 28(5) (2026), 2261–2305. arXiv

M. Michelen, J. Sahasrabudhe

Anti-concentration of random variables from zero-free regions

Discrete Anal. 2022:13, 29 pp. arXiv

M. Michelen, J. Sahasrabudhe

Central limit theorems from the roots of probability generating functions

Adv. Math. 358 (2019), 106840. arXiv

M. Michelen, J. Sahasrabudhe

A characterization of polynomials whose high powers have non-negative coefficients

Discrete Anal. 2020:20, 16 pp. arXiv

Littlewood problems on polynomials

T. Juškevičius, J. Sahasrabudhe

Cosine polynomials with few zeros

Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 53(3) (2021), 877–892. arXiv

P. Balister, B. Bollobás, R. Morris, J. Sahasrabudhe, M. Tiba

Flat Littlewood polynomials exist

Ann. of Math. (2) 192(3) (2020), 977–1004. arXiv

J. Sahasrabudhe

Counting zeros of cosine polynomials: on a problem of Littlewood

Adv. Math. 343 (2019), 495–521. arXiv

Erdős covering systems

P. Balister, B. Bollobás, R. Morris, J. Sahasrabudhe, M. Tiba

On the Erdős covering problem: the density of the uncovered set

Invent. Math. 228 (2022), 377–414. arXiv

P. Balister, B. Bollobás, R. Morris, J. Sahasrabudhe, M. Tiba

The structure and number of Erdős covering systems

J. Eur. Math. Soc. 26(1) (2024), 75–109. arXiv

P. Balister, B. Bollobás, R. Morris, J. Sahasrabudhe, M. Tiba

The Erdős–Selfridge problem with square-free moduli

Algebra Number Theory 15(3) (2021), 609–626. arXiv

Arithmetic Ramsey theory

J. Sahasrabudhe

Exponential patterns in arithmetic Ramsey theory

Acta Arith. 182(1) (2018), 13–42. arXiv

J. Sahasrabudhe

Monochromatic solutions to systems of exponential equations

J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 158 (2018), 548–559. arXiv

Graph theory

S. Letzter, J. Sahasrabudhe

On existentially complete triangle-free graphs

Israel J. Math. 236(2) (2020), 591–601. arXiv

B. Narayanan, J. Sahasrabudhe, I. Tomon

The multiplication table problem for bipartite graphs

Combinatorica 37(5) (2017), 991–1010. arXiv

B. Narayanan, J. Sahasrabudhe, I. Tomon

Ramsey graphs induce subgraphs of many different sizes

Combinatorica 39(1) (2019), 215–237. arXiv

K. Popielarz, J. Sahasrabudhe, R. Snyder

A stability theorem for maximal Kr+1-free graphs

J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 132 (2018), 236–257. arXiv

Expository

P. Balister, B. Bollobás, R. Morris, J. Sahasrabudhe, M. Tiba

Erdős covering systems

Acta Math. Hungar. 161 (2020), 540–549. journal