JerrumFest 2025

General Information

• Date : Friday, July 18th, 2025
• Location : School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London
• Organisers : Leslie Ann Goldberg (Oxford), Heng Guo (Edinburgh), and Viresh Patel (QMUL)

Mark Jerrum has turned 70 this year!

We are celebrating his birthday with a day of talks on 18th of July.

(Tentative) Schedule

• 09:30 - 09:55 Ivona Bezakova
• 10:00 - 10:25 Catherine Greenhill
• 10:30 - 10:55 Jin-Yi Cai
• Coffee break
• 11:30 - 11:55 Eric Vigoda
• 12:00 - 12:25 Martin Grohe
• 12:30 - 12:55 Alistair Sinclair
• Lunch break
• 2:00 - 2:25 Ravi Kannan
• 2:30 - 2:55 Daniel Stefankovic
• 3:00 - 3:25 Leslie Valiant
• Coffee break
• 4:00 - 4:25 Martin Dyer
• 4:30 - 4:55 Gordon Brebner
• 5:00 - 5:15 Closing remarks

Participants

• Konrad Anand (Edinburgh)
• Ivona Bezakova (RIT)
• Gordon Brebner (AMD)
• Jin-Yi Cai (UW-Madison)
• Mary Cryan (Edinburgh)
• Alison Dyer
• Martin Dyer (Leeds)
• 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)
• Jane Hillston (Edinburgh)
• Bill Jackson (QMUL)
• Ravi Kannan (Simons)
• John Lapinskas (Bristol)
• Tamas Makai (LMU)
• Colin McDiarmid (Oxford) (to be confirmed)
• Xandru Mifsud (Oxford)
• Viresh Patel (QMUL)
• Elisa Piccaro (LSE)
• David Pollard
• Louise Pollard
• David Richerby (Essex)
• Alistair Sinclair (UC Berkeley)
• Paulina Smolarova (Oxford)
• Gregory Sorkin (LSE)
• Daniel Stefankovic (Rochester)
• Leslie Valiant (Harvard)
• Eric Vigoda (UCSB)
• Standa Zivny (Oxford)
• Xusheng Zhang (Oxford)