
Prof. Oliver Riordan
Status
Academic Faculty
Professor of Discrete Mathematics
Research groups
Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Recent books
Recent publications
Random cliques in random graphs and sharp thresholds for F-factors
RIORDAN, O Random Structures and Algorithms (22 Jul 2022) A note on Linnik’s theorem on quadratic non-residues
Balister, P Bollobás, B Lee, J Morris, R Riordan, O Archiv der Mathematik volume 112 issue 4 371-375 (11 Jan 2019) Sesqui-type branching processes
Janson, S Riordan, O Warnke, L Stochastic Processes and their Applications volume 128 issue 11 3628-3655 (01 Nov 2018) Topological Phase Transitions in Spatial Networks
Balister, P Song, C Riordan, O Bollobas, B Barabasi, A (26 Jun 2018) http://arxiv.org/abs/1806.10114v1 Counting dense connected hypergraphs via the probabilistic method
Bollobás, B Riordan, O Random Structures & Algorithms volume 53 issue 2 185-220 (13 Feb 2018) Research interests
Random graphs, especially inhomogenous random graphs and their phase transitions; percolation, in particular percolation in random environments.
Highlighted publications
Explosive percolation is continuous.
Riordan, O Warnke, L Science volume 333 issue 6040 322-324 (15 Jul 2011) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21764743 Percolation on self-dual polygon configurations
Bollobas, B Riordan, O An irregular mind - Szemeredi is 70 volume 21 131-217 (2010) http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.4674v2 The diameter of sparse random graphs
Riordan, O Wormald, N Combinatorics, Probability and Computing 19 (2010), 835--926 (29 Aug 2008) http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.4067v3 Sparse random graphs with clustering
Bollobas, B Janson, S Riordan, O Random Structures and Algorithms 38 (2011), 269--323 (13 Jul 2008) http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.2040v2 Percolation on dense graph sequences
Bollobás, B Borgs, C Chayes, J Riordan, O Annals of Probability volume 38 issue 1 150-183 (12 Jan 2007) http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0701346v3 Prizes, awards, and scholarships
London Mathematical Society Whitehead Prize, 2007