or 'pseudorandom' alternatives. Extremal graph theory A basic question in extremal graph theory is to find unavoidable patterns and structures in graphs with given density or distribution. A complementary problem is to find a smallest graph which contains every member of a given family of graphs as subgraphs. In a series of work with Paul Erdős, Chung determined the sizes and structures of unavoidable graphs and hypergraphs. With several coauthors, she also derived many elegant and surprising results on universal graphs. Her fundamental contributions in these areas of extremal graph theory have many applications in parallel computations. Awards and honors Allendoerfer Award of Mathematical Association of America (1990) Invited address, International Congress of Mathematicians (1994) Noether Lecturer, Association for Women in Mathematics (2009) Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1998) Fellow, American Mathematics Society (2013) Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2015) Academician, Academia Sinica (2016) Euler Medal of Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications (2017) She is included in a deck of playing cards featuring notable women mathematicians published by the Association of Women in Mathematics. References SourcesNotable Women in Mathematics, a Biographical Dictionary'', edited by Charlene Morrow and Teri Perl, Greenwood Press, 1998, pp. 29–34. External links Fan Chung's UCSD homepage "Fan Chung", Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College Interview with Fan Chung created by Girls Talk Math 1949 births 21st-century American mathematicians Living people Graph theorists Scientists from Kaohsiung National Taiwan University alumni Taiwanese emigrants to the United States University of California, San Diego faculty University of Pennsylvania alumni American women mathematicians Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 20th-century Taiwanese mathematicians Chinese emigrants to the United States 20th-century women mathematicians 20th-century mathematicians 21st-century women mathematicians 20th-century American women scientists 21st-century American women scientists Members of Academia Sinica