Discrete Mathematics and Algorithms Research

The Department has a strong faculty working in various topics in discrete mathematics, especially algorithmic aspects. The interface between Theoretical Computer Science and Discrete Mathematics has been highlighted by recent EPSRC Reviews of both disciplines as being one of increasing importance. LSE is well placed to be at the forefront of future developments.

Individual faculty interests are listed below, along with our Postdocs and Research students.

 Professor Peter Allen 

• Extremal and random combinatorics; in particular Ramsey theory
• Extremal (hyper)graph theory
• Extremal theorems on (quasi)random structures, and algorithmic aspects thereof

Professor Martin Anthony 

• Mathematical aspects of machine learning, particularly probabilistic modelling of learning and discrete mathematical problems in the theory of learning, data mining and artificial neural networks
• Boolean function classes and their representations

Dr Tugkan Batu 

• Algorithms and theory of computation; particularly randomized computation
• Sublinear algorithms on massive data sets
• Property testing
• Computational statistics

 Professor Julia Böttcher

• Extremal combinatorics
• Random and quasi-random discrete structures
• Ramsey theory
• Algorithmical and structural graph theory
• Graph colouring

 Professor Graham Brightwell

• Combinatorics in general, especially finite partially ordered sets, probabilistic methods, and algorithmic aspects
• Random graphs
• Random structures

Professor Jan van den Heuvel

• Graph theory
• Matroid theory
• Applications and algorithmic aspects of graph theory
• Mathematical aspects of frequency assignment problems
• Mathematical aspects of networks
• Discrete mathematics in general

Professor Andrew Lewis-Pye

• Algorithmic processes
• Randomness
• Computability
• Algorithmic game theory
• Agent based models
• Networks
• Discrete mathematics in general

Dr Emilio Pierro

• Finite group theory
• Groups of Lie type
• Geometric group theory
• Combinatorics
• Generation of finite simple groups

Dr Robert Simon

• Measure theory
• Ergodic theory
• Functional analysis
• Stochastic processes
• Chaos Theory
• Combinatorics
• Algebraic topology

 Professor Jozef Skokan

• Extremal set theory
• Quasi-random structures
• Probabilistic combinatorics
• Discrete geometry
• Graph theory
• Combinatorial games
• Topics in theoretical computer science

 Professor Konrad Swanepoel

• Combinatorial and discrete geometry
• Axiomatic geometry
• Finite geometries
• Geometry of finite-dimensional normed spaces
• Geometric shortest networks, such as Steiner Minimal Trees and the Fermat-Torricelli Problem
• Extremal combinatorics