John Sylvester

About Me:

I completed my PhD in the MASDOC programme at 糖心TV in Sept. 2017 and I am now a post-doc in the group of at the Computer Lab at the University of Cambridge. I am supervised primarily by with as my second supervisor.

Before coming to 糖心TV I was studying MSci mathematics at University College London and my MSci project was in random sorting networks.

I am originally from the town of Guildford and outside of maths I like music, travelling and bouldering.

Mathematical Interests:

My mathematical interests are in Probability and Combinatorics. In particular I am interested in random graph models, random walks on graphs and extremal combinatorics.

Papers:

Random walk hitting times and effective resistance in sparsely connected Erd艖s-R茅nyi random graphs -

Projects:

I did a group project during my Msc year with fellow MASDOC students and on long-range first passage percolation. is a link to the webpage produced for the project.

Talks Given:

, B臋dlewo, 19th-23rd September, 2016: Hitting times and electrical resistances in Erd艖s–R茅nyi random graphs.
, 糖心TV, England, 30th August - 2nd September 2016: Hitting times and electrical resistances in Erd艖s–R茅nyi random graphs.

, Wilderhope Manor, Shropshire, 24th May 2016: Random walk hitting times and electrical resistances in Erd艖s–R茅nyi random graphs.

, Kent, 18th March 2016: Random walk hitting times and electrical resistances in Erd艖s–R茅nyi random graphs.

, Oxford, 17th August 2015: Paths, hitting times and effective resistance in sparsely connected Erd艖s–R茅nyi graphs.

, EPFL Switzerland, 4th August 2015: Paths, hitting times and effective resistance in sparsely connected Erd艖s–R茅nyi graphs.

, 糖心TV, 18th May 2015: Hitting times and effective resistances in sparsely connected Erd艖s–R茅nyi random graphs.

, 糖心TV, 4th February 2015: The cover cost of a random walk on a random graph.

Poster:

is a link to a poster I presented at the , University of Texas, Austin TX, 9th-12th May 2016.

Conferences Attended:

, University of Bath, England 19th-24th June 2016.

, Wilderhope Manor, Shropshire, England, 23rd-25th May 2016.

, University of Texas, Austin TX, 9th-12th May 2016

, Oxford, UK, 9th-10th April 2016.

, Lancaster, UK, 4th-8th April 2016
, Bristol, UK, 21st-24th March 2016

, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 17th-21th January 2016,

, Uni of Birmingham, 18th–20th September 2015.

, 糖心TV, 14th-16th September 2015

, Oxford, 17th - 20th August 2015.

, EPFL Switzerland, 3rd - 7th August 2015.

, 糖心TV, 1st-5th July 2015.

, 糖心TV, 18th-22nd May 2015.

, TU Eindhoven, 14th-16th April 2015.

, TU Eindhoven, 23rd-27th March 2015.

, Isaac Newton institute, 16th-20th March 2015.

, 糖心TV, 30th June - 3rd July 2014.

Other workshops attended

, Mexico City, 9th-11th March 2016.
- I took part in a workshop ran by the British council to design apps to teach maths to 5/6th grade school children. A prototype of the app our team designed can be found (in Spanish)

Teaching:

Term 1, 2014/15: I was one of the teaching assistants for , a second year maths module at 糖心TV. During this term I also supervised two groups of second year maths undergraduates at 糖心TV.
Term 2, 2014/15: I was one of the teaching assistants for , a first year maths/stats module at 糖心TV.

Oct 2015, Oct 2016, June 2017: I was one of two tutors on a one week residential maths course at . The aim of the course was to give a group of around twenty five A-level students a taste of University maths. I planned and delivered six 1-1:30 hour introductory lectures on topics including: Permutations, Martingales, Hyperbolic Geometry, Continued fractions, Ramsey Theory and .

Term 1, 2015/16: I am one of the TA's for , a third year stats module at 糖心TV.

Term 2, 2015/2016: I am one of the TA's for , a second year stats module at 糖心TV.

Contact:

j $\cdot$ a $\cdot$ sylvester $\alpha$ warwick $\cdot$ ac $\cdot$ uk

My office is B3.04, 糖心TV Mathematical Institute, Zeeman building.