Jan
van den Heuvel
 
(that is:  first name "Jan", last name "van den Heuvel")

Professor of Mathematics

Head of Department

Teaching

• In 2012/13 I will be teaching the Calculus part of MA100, Mathematical Methods; see also the MA100 Moodle page.
• I am responsible for the first term for MA498, Dissertation in Mathematics; see also the MA498 Moodle page. I will also be available to supervise MSc Dissertations within that course.

Research

• combinatorics and discrete mathematics in general;
• graph theory (and related concepts such as matroids) in particular;
• discrete algorithms and complexity theory;
• combinatorial optimisation;
• applications of graph theory to telecommunications (frequency assignment problems, network connectivity).

• Publications

• Talks at conferences and seminars

• Seminars, conferences and other meetings related to my research interests

• I am guest editor of the special volumes of Discrete Mathematics devoted to papers presented at the British Combinatorical Conference.
• I am a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Graph Theory.
• I am a member of British Combinatorial Committee.

PhD Students

• Snezana Pejic (April 2008) on Algebraic Graph Theory in the Analysis of Frequency Assignment Problems;
• Luis Cereceda (June 2008) on Mixing Graph Colourings;
• Viresh Patel (May 2009) (joint supervision with Graham Brightwell) on Partitions of Combinatorial Structures.

If you are interested in starting PhD research with me, feel free to send me an email. More official information about studying for a PhD in the Mathematics Department at the LSE, how to apply, etc., can be found on the page on PhD and MPhil in Mathematics.

And anybody considering continuing for a PhD should read the NewScientist's The PhD journey: how to choose a good supervisor.

Some other bits about me

• I now and then try to understand computers better. Currently this involves for a large part playing with Linux.  
• My computer at the LSE is named after Sophie Germain, an 18-th century French female mathematician. You can learn more about her by going to, e.g.,
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Germain;
  • www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/proof/germain.html;
  • www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/germain.html;
  or just do a search at Google:
  • www.google.com/search?q=%22Sophie+Germain%22&btnG=Google+Search.