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Overview

Alistair Sinclair is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within mathematics and physics, focusing primarily on areas related to probability and statistical mechanics.

The main fields of study for Sinclair include:

  • Mathematics
  • Physics and Astronomy

Within these broad fields, Sinclair's subfields of study highlight more specific areas of interest:

  • Statistics and Probability
  • Mathematical Physics
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics

Their work covers a set of principal topics that weave through their research output:

  • Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods
  • Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics
  • Theoretical and Computational Physics
  • Random Matrices and Applications
  • Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
  • Limits and Structures in Graph Theory
  • Advanced Graph Theory Research

The scientist has contributed to several publications, with notable papers including:

  • "Correlation Decay and Partition Function Zeros: Algorithms and Phase Transitions" (2022), published in SIAM Journal on Computing
  • "The critical mean-field Chayes-Machta dynamics" (2022), published in Combinatorics Probability Computing
  • "Entropy decay in the Swendsen-Wang dynamics on Zd" (2022), published in The Annals of Applied Probability
  • "Spatial mixing and the random-cluster dynamics on lattices" (2023), published in Random Structures and Algorithms
  • "Nonlinear Dynamics for the Ising Model" (2024), published in Communications in Mathematical Physics

Sinclair frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Annals of Applied Probability
  • Random Structures and Algorithms
  • SIAM Journal on Computing
  • Combinatorics Probability Computing

Collaborations with other researchers are a notable aspect of Sinclair's work, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Reza Gheissari
  • Antonio Blanca
  • Pietro Caputo
  • Xusheng Zhang
  • Daniel R. Parisi

Best Publications

  • Optimal speedup of Las Vegas algorithms

    M. Luby;A. Sinclair;D. Zuckerman

  • Approximating the permanent

    M. Jerrum;Alistair Sinclair

  • Approximate counting, uniform generation and rapidly mixing Markov chains

    Alistair Sinclair;Mark Jerrum

  • A polynomial-time approximation algorithm for the permanent of a matrix with nonnegative entries

    Mark Jerrum;Alistair Sinclair;Eric Vigoda

  • Polynomial-time approximation algorithms for the Ising model

    Mark Jerrum;Alistair Sinclair

  • The Markov chain Monte Carlo method: an approach to approximate counting and integration

    Mark Jerrum;Alistair Sinclair

  • Improved Bounds for Mixing Rates of Markov Chains and Multicommodity Flow

    Alistair Sinclair

  • Algorithms for Random Generation and Counting: A Markov Chain Approach

    Alistair Sinclair

  • Convergence to approximate Nash equilibria in congestion games

    Steve Chien;Alistair Sinclair

  • Conductance and the rapid mixing property for Markov chains: the approximation of permanent resolved

    Mark Jerrum;Alistair Sinclair

  • Markov Chain Algorithms for Planar Lattice Structures

    Michael Luby;Dana Randall;Alistair Sinclair

  • Cuts, Trees and ℓ 1 -Embeddings of Graphs*

    Anupam Gupta;Alistair Sinclair;Ilan Newman;Yuri Rabinovich

  • Fast uniform generation of regular graphs

    M. Jerrum;A. Sinclair

  • Local divergence of Markov chains and the analysis of iterative load-balancing schemes

    Y. Rabani;A. Sinclair;R. Wanka

  • Cuts, trees and l/sub 1/-embeddings of graphs

    A. Gupta;I. Newman;Y. Rabinovich;A. Sinclair

  • A polynomial-time approximation algorithm for the permanent of a matrix with non-negative entries

    Mark Jerrum;Alistair Sinclair;Eric Vigoda

  • Low Distortion Maps Between Point Sets

    Claire Kenyon;Yuval Rabani;Alistair Sinclair

  • Approximation Algorithms for Two-State Anti-Ferromagnetic Spin Systems on Bounded Degree Graphs

    Alistair Sinclair;Piyush Srivastava;Marc Thurley

  • Improved Bounds for Mixing Rates of Marked Chains and Multicommodity Flow

    Alistair Sinclair

  • A computational view of population genetics

    Yuval Rabini;Yuri Rabinovich;Alistair Sinclair

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Vigoda
Eric Vigoda University of California, Santa Barbara
Mark Jerrum
Mark Jerrum Queen Mary University of London
Yuval Rabani
Yuval Rabani Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Claire Kenyon
Claire Kenyon Brown University
Anupam Gupta
Anupam Gupta Carnegie Mellon University
Michael Luby
Michael Luby BitRipple
Leonard J. Schulman
Leonard J. Schulman California Institute of Technology
Dimitris Achlioptas
Dimitris Achlioptas National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Sanjiv Ranjan Das
Sanjiv Ranjan Das Santa Clara University
Uri Zwick
Uri Zwick Tel Aviv University

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