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Overview

Oliver Riordan is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily in the field of Mathematics.

The main research areas include:

  • Limits and Structures in Graph Theory
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Advanced Graph Theory Research
  • Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Graph theory and applications

Their subfields of study cover:

  • Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Mathematical Physics
  • Geometry and Topology

Oliver Riordan has authored several recent research papers, including:

  • "Random cliques in random graphs and sharp thresholds for F$$ F $$-factors," 2022, published in Random Structures and Algorithms
  • "Combinatorics, Probability and Computing," 2023, published in Oberwolfach Reports
  • "Addressing illegal practices: intergenerational transfer and creative engagement as a way to compensate boomerang effects," 2023, published in Frontiers in Communication
  • "How does the chromatic number of a random graph vary?," 2023, published in Journal of the London Mathematical Society
  • "How does embracing an outdoor lifestyle and sense of responsibility impact plastic reduction efforts?," 2024, published in Frontiers in Sustainability

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Oliver Riordan include:

  • Isabel Richter
  • Michael Krivelevich
  • Angelika Steger
  • Annika Heckel
  • Tomasz Przybyłowski

Oliver Riordan has contributed to multiple publications in various venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Oberwolfach Reports
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Random Structures and Algorithms
  • Frontiers in Communication
  • Journal of the London Mathematical Society

Best Publications

  • The degree sequence of a scale-free random graph process

    Béla Bollobás;Oliver Riordan;Joel Spencer;Gábor Tusnády

  • The phase transition in inhomogeneous random graphs

    Béla Bollobás;Svante Janson;Oliver Riordan

  • The Diameter of a Scale-Free Random Graph

    Bélaa Bollobás;Oliver Riordan

  • Mathematical results on scale‐free random graphs

    Béla Bollobás;Béla Bollobás;Oliver M. Riordan

  • Directed scale-free graphs

    Béla Bollobás;Christian Borgs;Jennifer Chayes;Oliver Riordan

  • Robustness and Vulnerability of Scale-Free Random Graphs

    Béla Bollobás;Oliver Riordan

  • Explosive percolation is continuous.

    Oliver Riordan;Lutz Warnke

  • A polynomial of graphs on surfaces

    Béla Bollobás;Oliver Riordan

  • The critical probability for random Voronoi percolation in the plane is 1/2

    Béla Bollobás;Béla Bollobás;Oliver Riordan;Oliver Riordan

  • Vertex-distinguishing edge colorings of graphs

    P. N. Balister;O. M. Riordan;R. H. Schelp

  • Nonrepetitive colorings of graphs

    Noga Alon;Jaroslaw Grytczuk;Mariusz Hałuszczak;Oliver Riordan

  • The phase transition in inhomogeneous random graphs

    Bela Bollobas;Svante Janson;Oliver Riordan

  • A Polynomial Invariant of Graphs On Orientable Surfaces

    Béla Bollobás;Oliver Riordan

  • Metrics for sparse graphs

    B. Bollobás;O. Riordan

  • A Tutte Polynomial for Coloured Graphs

    Béla Bollobás;Oliver Riordan

  • Sparse graphs: Metrics and random models

    Béla Bollobás;Oliver Riordan

  • The diameter of sparse random graphs

    Oliver Riordan;Nicholas Wormald

  • Percolation on dense graph sequences.

    Béla Bollobás;Christian Borgs;Jennifer T. Chayes;Oliver Riordan

  • Spanning Subgraphs of Random Graphs

    Oliver Riordan

  • The consequences of Zipf's law for syntax and symbolic reference

    Ramon Ferrer i Cancho;Oliver Riordan;Béla Bollobás

  • Nonrepetitive colorings of graphs

    Noga Alon;Jarosław Grytczuk

Frequent Co-Authors

Béla Bollobás
Béla Bollobás University of Memphis
Svante Janson
Svante Janson Uppsala University
Paul Balister
Paul Balister University of Oxford
Christian Borgs
Christian Borgs University of California, Berkeley
Jennifer Chayes
Jennifer Chayes University of California, Berkeley
József Balogh
József Balogh University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Benny Sudakov
Benny Sudakov ETH Zurich
Joel Spencer
Joel Spencer Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Walter J. Freeman
Walter J. Freeman University of California, Berkeley

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