Home Page of Mark Jerrum
Mark Jerrum
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Hitch and me.
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| Address : |
School of Mathematical Sciences
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS |
| Position : |
Professor of Mathematics |
| Office : |
Maths Building MB-511 |
| Email : |
m DOT jerrum AT qmul DOT ac DOT uk |
| Telephone : |
+44 (0)20 7882 5472 |
I am interested combinatorics, computational complexity and stochastic processes. All of these ingredients come together in the study of randomised algorithms: computational procedures that exploit the surprising power
of making random choices. A strong theme in this work is the analysis of the mixing time of combinatorially or geometrically defined Markov chains. More generally, I work on the computational complexity of counting problems, including weighted counted problems as exemplified by partition functions and generating functions. Statistical physics, Constraint Satisfaction Problems and graph polynomials provide a rich source of motivating examples.
My research was until recently supported by an EPSRC grant
Sampling in Hereditary Classes, held jointly with Martin Dyer and Haiko Müller (both Leeds). Prior to that, I was Principal Investigator on Algorithms that count: exploring the limits of tractability, and Co-Investigator on a joint project with Martin Dyer and Leslie Ann Goldberg (Oxford).
Some publications are available
online.
Or, for a more nearly complete listing of publications, click
here.
(This listing is generated in real time by
MathSciNet.)
- MTH784P Optimisation for Business Processes.
- MTH4213 Numbers, Sets and Functions.
My Office hours can be found
here.
- Konrad Anand (started 2020).
- James Matthews (graduated 2008).
- John Faben (graduated 2012).
I am co-organiser of the Combinatorics Study Group.
From my early career:
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Queen Mary, University of London.