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.

The talks will be in the Maths lecture theatre (entrances on ground floor and basement of the maths building) and all coffee and lunch breaks will be in the social hub (in the basement of the maths building).

(Tentative) Schedule

• 09:25 - 09:30 Opening – Heng Guo
• 09:30 - 09:55 Catherine Greenhill: The complexity of approximating the impact of Mark Jerrum
• 10:00 - 10:25 Jin-Yi Cai: Shor’s quantum algorithms fail in the presence of noise
• Coffee break
• 11:00 - 11:25 Eric Vigoda: Improved bounds for randomly sampling colorings
• 11:30 - 11:55 Martin Grohe: The algebra of homomorphism counts
• 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
• 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: Jerrum: Random Recollections
• 5:00 - 5:15 Closing remarks – Leslie Ann Goldberg

Participants

• Konrad Anand (Edinburgh)
• 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)
• 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)
• Jane Hillston (Edinburgh)
• Bill Jackson (QMUL)
• Ravi Kannan (Simons)
• Brett Kolesnik (Warwick)
• John Lapinskas (Bristol)
• Tamas Makai (LMU)
• Colin McDiarmid (Oxford) (to be confirmed)
• 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)
• Daniel Stefankovic (Rochester)
• Leslie Valiant (Harvard)
• Eric Vigoda (UCSB)
• Jiaheng Wang (Regensburg)
• Standa Zivny (Oxford)
• Xusheng Zhang (Oxford)