John Sylvester
I am a Research Associate at the Department of Computer Science and Technology working with Thomas Sauerwald.
Before coming to Cambridge I was a PhD student at the University of Warwick under the supervision of Agelos Georgakopoulos.
Before that I studied Mathematics at University College London.
Contact Details
Dr John Sylvester
University of Cambridge
Computer Laboratory
15 JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0FD
United Kingdom
| Email: | firstname.lastname (snail symbol) cl.cam.ac.uk |
| Office: | FC01 |
Research Interests
- Markov chains and random processes on graphs.
- Random graphs.
- Randomised and distributed algorithms.
Publications and Preprints
- A Short Note on Binomial Tails for Vanishing Mean.
(Available here) - Time dependent biased random walks. (with John Haslegrave, Thomas Sauerwald)
In preparation, (Available here) - The power of two choices for random walks (with Agelos Georgakopoulos, John Haslegrave and Thomas Sauerwald)
Preprint (arXiv:1911.05170) - Choice and bias for random walks (with Agelos Georgakopoulos, John Haslegrave and Thomas Sauerwald)
Preliminary version of the above two papers ITCS 2020 (Available here) - The dispersion time of random walks on finite graphs (with Nicolás Rivera, Thomas Sauerwald and Alexandre Stauffer)
Submitted, Extended abstract appeared SPAA 2019 (arXiv:1808.09219) - Random walk hitting times and effective resistance in sparsely connected Erdős–Rényi random graphs
Accepted in Journal of Graph Theory (JGT Early Access (Open Access))
Recent talks
- Contributed Talk, 28th London Stringology Days & London Algorithmic Workshop, Kings College London, 6 Feb 2020
- Conference Talk, 11th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science conference (ITCS) Click for VIDEO!, Seattle WA, USA, Jan 2020
- Contributed Talk, Random Structures & Algorithms, ETH, Switzerland, 15 July 2019
- Conference Talk, 31st Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms & Architectures (SPAA), Pheonix AZ, USA, 22 June 2019
- Contributed Talk, STAR Workshop on Random Graphs, Uni of Groningen, Netherlands, 11 April 2019
- Invited Talk, Combinatorics Seminar, Uni of Warwick, 12th Oct 2018
- Invited Talk, MASDOC Retreat, Peak District, 29 April 2018
- Invited Talk, Warwick SIAM-IMA Conference, Uni of Warwick, 15 November 2017
Teaching
- Lent term 2019/20: Part II course Probability and Computation
- 04/11/19-08/11/19: Mathematics: Chaos or Clear Cut? - Inspiring exellence course at Villiers Park Educational Trust, Cambridgeshire