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

Professor of Mathematics

Head of Department

(on sabbatical January-April 2014)

Teaching

• In Michaelmas 2013/14 I will be teaching the Extra Example Sessions of MA103, Introduction to Abstract Mathematics; see also the MA103 Moodle page.

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;
• Somkiat Trakultraipruk (May 2013) on Connectivity Properties of Some Transformation Graphs;
• David Ferguson (September 2013) (joint supervision with Jozef Skokan) on Topics in Graph Colouring and Graph Structures;
• Alexey Pokrovskiy (November 2013) (joint supervision with Jozef Skokan) on Graph Powers, Partitioning and other Extremal Problems.

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.