JerrumFest 2025
Mark Jerrum has turned 70 this year!
We are celebrating his birthday with a day of talks on 18th of July.
The talks will be in the Maths lecture theatre MB-G01 (entrances on ground floor and basement of the maths building) and all coffee and lunch breaks will be in the foyer outside the Maths lecture theatre.
If you want to participate, please contact the organisers.
Some pictures
All participants:
Mike’s academic family DAG
(Tentative) Schedule
- 09:25 - 09:30 Opening – Heng Guo
- 09:30 - 09:55 Catherine Greenhill: The complexity of approximating the impact of Mark Jerrum (slides)
- 10:00 - 10:25 Jin-Yi Cai: Shor’s quantum algorithms fail in the presence of noise (slides)
- 10:30 - 10:55 Eric Vigoda: Improved bounds for randomly sampling colorings (slides)
- Coffee break
- 11:30 - 11:55 Martin Grohe: The algebra of homomorphism counts (slides)
- 12:00 - 12:25 Alistair Sinclair: Nonlinear dynamics for the Ising model
- Lunch break
- 2:00 - 2:25 Ravi Kannan: Random Projections preserve distance between two polytopes (slides)
- 2:30 - 2:55 Daniel Stefankovic: Independent Set on Trees (and beyond?) (slides)
- 3:00 - 3:25 Leslie Valiant: Function Diversity
- Coffee break
- 4:00 - 4:25 Martin Dyer
- 4:30 - 4:55 Gordon Brebner: Jerrum: Random Recollections (slides)
- 5:00 - 5:15 Closing remarks – Leslie Ann Goldberg
Participants
- Konrad Anand (Edinburgh)
- Ferenc Bencs (CWI)
- Ivona Bezakova (RIT)
- Gordon Brebner (Edinburgh)
- Jin-Yi Cai (UW-Madison)
- Mary Cryan (Edinburgh)
- Artur Czumaj (Warwick)
- Alison Dyer
- Martin Dyer (Leeds)
- Charilaos Efthymiou (Warwick)
- Alex Fink (QMUL)
- Graham Freifeld (Edinburgh)
- Andreas Galanis (Oxford)
- Stefanie Gerke (RHUL)
- Leslie Ann Goldberg (Oxford)
- Paul Goldberg (Oxford)
- Heng Guo (Edinburgh)
- Catherine Greenhill (UNSW)
- Martin Grohe (RWTH Aachen)
- Rosemary Harris (UCL)
- Jan van den Heuvel (LSE)
- Bill Jackson (QMUL)
- Ravi Kannan (Simons)
- Brett Kolesnik (Warwick)
- John Lapinskas (Bristol)
- Tamas Makai (LMU)
- Colin McDiarmid (Oxford)
- Xandru Mifsud (Oxford)
- Viresh Patel (QMUL)
- Mike Paterson (Warwick)
- Elisa Piccaro (LSE)
- David Pollard
- Louise Pollard
- Rob Procter (Warwick)
- David Richerby (Essex)
- Alistair Sinclair (UC Berkeley)
- Paulina Smolarova (Oxford)
- Gregory Sorkin (LSE)
- Alexandre Stauffer (Kings)
- Daniel Stefankovic (Rochester)
- Leslie Valiant (Harvard)
- Eric Vigoda (UCSB)
- Jiaheng Wang (Regensburg)
- Standa Zivny (Oxford)
- Xusheng Zhang (Oxford)