Discrete Mathematics
About
Discrete mathematics is the study of mathematical structures that are by nature discrete rather than continuous. It includes combinatorics and graph theory
Seminar series
Discrete Structures and Algorithms
Academic Staff
Dr Richard BRAK (Senior Lecturer)
Research interests: Enumerative combinatorics, Statistical Mechanics, Stochastic Processes, Critical Phenomena (phase transitions), Markov processes, Combinatorics, Orthogonal functions and polynomials, Polymers, Modelling of biological systems
Prof Jan DE GIER (Head of School)
Research interests: Stochastic Processes, Integrable models, Mathematical Physics, Combinatorics
Prof Aleks OWCZAREK (Professor)
Research interests: Exact solutions of lattice models, Statistical Mechanics, Enumerative combinatorics, Mathematical Physics, Integrable systems, Lattice polymer models
Prof Arun RAM (Professor)
Research interests: Representation theory
Dr Michael WHEELER (Senior Lecturer)
Research interests: Algebraic Combinatorics, Exactly solvable lattice models , Stochastic Processes, Integrable probability, Symmetric function theory
Dr Binzhou XIA (Lecturer)
Research interests: Group Theory, Combinatorics, Algebraic Graph Theory
Prof Sanming ZHOU (Professor)
Research interests: Algebraic Graph Theory, Graph Structure and Dynamics, Random Graph Processes, Network Optimisation, Algebraic Combinatorics, Operations Research, Theoretical Computer Science
Research Fellows
Dr Nicholas BEATON (Research Fellow)
Honorary Staff
Emeritus Professor Anthony (Tony) GUTTMANN
Emeritus Professor (Associate)
Visitors
Dr Yangming LI (Department of Mathematics, Guangdong University of Education)
Dr Jicheng MA (Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences)
Postgraduate Students
GUNNA Ajeeth
MOORE William – ‘Bi-orthogonal Polynomials and the Combinatorics of Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process’
POZNANOVIC Nemanja
SURANI Muhammad Adib – ‘The Isoperimetric Problem in Block Designs’
XU Ruijie – ‘Some interacting quarter plane walk rpoblems’
ZHENG Shasha
ZHENG Shasha
Masters (RT) Students
MAHONY Ned