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

Professor in Mathematics

Teaching

In 2009/10 I will be teaching two undergraduate courses:

• the Calculus part of MA100, Mathematical Methods, and
• MA208, Optimisation Theory.

• MA498, Dissertation in Mathematics Seminar,

Besides those, in the spring of 2010, together with Graham Brightwell, I will be teaching the

• LTCC Course on Graph Theory,

Admin

My main administrative task in 2009/10 is Programme Director for the MSc in Applicable Mathematics. That means I am in overall charge of the tutorial system of that degree, and have a special responsibility for providing academic guidance and monitoring the progress of students.

• Students that want to see me in my role as Programme Director, should in general talk to their Academic Adviser first. If they then want to speak to me, they should book an appointment via the Mathematics Departmental Office (room B401, tel +44 (0)20-7955 7494).
• It is no use contacting me for applications issues; the Programme Director has no responsibility for that.

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.,
  • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/proof/germain.html;
  • http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/germain.html;
  or just do a search at Google:
  • http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Sophie+Germain%22&btnG=Google+Search.