Professor Roger Behrend

Biography

Qualifications

• BSc, University of Melbourne, Australia
• MSc, Imperial College London, UK
• PhD, University of Melbourne, Australia

Previous positions

• Research Fellow, Physics Institute, University of Bonn, Germany
• Research Fellow, C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stony Brook University, USA

Publications

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Teaching

Modules taught

• MA0017 Elementary Mathematical Methods I
• MA0122 Algebra I
• MA1008 Linear Algebra I
• MA1700 Numerical Analysis I
• MA2014 Algebra I: Groups
• MA2700 Numerical Analysis II
• MA0323 Statistical Mechanics
• MA3004 Combinatorics
• MA3014 Algebra II: Rings
• MA4901 Reading Module

Teaching award

• Lecturer of the Year, 2016–2017.

Teaching-related roles

• Chair of Year Two Examination Board.
• Member of Extenuating Circumstances Panel.
• Undergraduate Open Day Speaker.

Research areas

• Combinatorics, including alternating sign matrices, graphs, lattice paths, plane partitions and polytopes.
• Mathematical physics, including conformal field theory and integrable statistical mechanical models.

Research award

• American Mathematical Society 2019 David P. Robbins Prize, with Ilse Fischer and Matjaž Konvalinka.

Current research funding

• Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant RPG-2019-083, The combinatorics of alternating sign matrices and plane partitions, 2019–2022.

Research associate

• Manjil Saikia

Current PhD supervision

• Bryony Richards

Recent PhD supervision

• Hassan Izanloo

Selected conference talks

• Algorithmic and Enumerative Combinatorics Special Research Programme Colloquium, 15 June 2018, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria.
• Workshop on Enumerative Combinatorics, 13–19 May 2018, Mathematics Research Institute, Oberwolfach, Germany.
• Algorithmic and Enumerative Combinatorics Special Research Programme Colloquium, 16 March 2018, University of Vienna, Austria.
• Algebraic and Enumerative Combinatorics in Okayama, 19–23 February 2018, Okayama University, Japan.
• Programme on Algorithmic and Enumerative Combinatorics, 16 October – 24 November 2017, Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics, Vienna, Austria.
• Programme on Statistical Mechanics, Integrability and Combinatorics, 11 May – 3 July 2015, Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics, Florence, Italy.
• Programme on Combinatorics, Geometry and Physics, 2 June – 31 July 2014, Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics, Vienna, Austria.
• Workshop on Algebraic Combinatorics Related to Young Diagrams and Statistical Physics, 6–10 August 2012, International Institute for Advanced Studies, Kyoto, Japan.
• 68th Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, 25–28 March 2012, Domaine Saint-Jacques, France.
• StatPhys24 Satellite Meeting on Combinatorics and Mathematical Physics, 12–14 July 2010, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
• Coimbra Meeting on 0-1 Matrix Theory and Related Topics, 17–19 June 2010, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
• Programme on Combinatorics and Statistical Physics, 1 February – 15 June 2008, Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics, Vienna, Austria.
• Programme on Combinatorics and Statistical Mechanics, 14 January – 4 July 2008, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK.
• 6th International Conference on Lattice Path Combinatorics and Applications, 12–14 July 2007, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, USA.
• 5th Permutation Patterns Conference, 11–15 June 2007, University of St Andrews, UK.
• Gregynog Mathematics Colloquium, 21–23 May 2007, Gregynog, UK.
• Workshop on Combinatorial Problems Raised by Statistical Mechanics, 19–23 February 2007, Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Montréal, Canada.
• 6th Bologna Workshop on Conformal Field Theories and Integrable Models, 22–25 September 2004, University of Bologna, Italy.

Selected departmental talks

• Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Department of Mathematical Sciences, 11 June 2019.
• Cardiff University, UK, School of Mathematics, 20 March 2019.
• University of Queensland, Australia, School of Mathematics and Physics, 14 August 2018.
• City University of London, UK, Department of Mathematics, 21 March 2017.
• University of South Wales, UK, School of Computing and Mathematics, 26 October 2016.
• University of Melbourne, Australia, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 11 August 2016.
• Queen Mary University of London, UK, School of Mathematical Sciences, 11 March 2016.
• University of Glasgow, UK, School of Mathematics and Statistics, 18 February 2016.
• Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences, UK, 17 February 2016.
• Royal Holloway University of London, UK, Department of Mathematics, 2 December 2014.
• University of Glasgow, UK, School of Mathematics and Statistics, 13 November 2012.
• University of Kent, UK, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, 12 June 2012.
• University of Melbourne, Australia, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 16 & 17 May 2011.
• Pierre and Marie Curie University, France, Theoretical and High Energy Physics Laboratory, 24 March 2011.
• Swansea University, UK, Mathematics Department, 6 November 2007.
• University of Melbourne, Australia, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 6 September 2007.
• Open University, UK, Mathematics Department, 8 December 2005.
• University of Edinburgh, UK, School of Mathematics, 8 December 2004.
• University of York, UK, Department of Mathematics, 26 June 2003.
• University of Oxford, UK, Mathematical Institute, 26 February 2002.

Visiting research positions

• Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria, 1 September 2017 – 31 August 2018.
• Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics, Florence, Italy, 14 May – 6 June 2015.
• Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics, Vienna, Austria, 8–21 June 2014.
• Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics, Vienna, Austria, 8 May – 13 June 2008.
• Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK, 14 January – 25 April 2008.

Research-related roles

• Organiser of School of Mathematics Colloquia.
• Reviewer for journals and funding agencies.
• PhD examiner.
• Treasurer of Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Group, Institute of Physics, 2012–2016.
• Isaac Newton Institute Correspondent, 2012–2017.

Conference organisation

• 31st International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1–5 July 2019.
• 29th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics, Queen Mary University of London, UK, 9–13 July 2017.
• Workshop on Combinatorial Physics, Cardiff University, UK, 17–19 December 2013.

Supervision

Past projects