
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
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Recent books
Recent publications
How does the chromatic number of a random graph vary?
Heckel, A Riordan, O Journal of the London Mathematical Society (10 Aug 2023) Random cliques in random graphs and sharp thresholds for F-factors
RIORDAN, O Random Structures and Algorithms (22 Jul 2022) Essential properties of the Tutte polynomial
Bollobás, B Riordan, O Handbook of the Tutte Polynomial and Related Topics 27-43 (11 May 2022) How does the chromatic number of a random graph vary?
Heckel, A Riordan, O (25 Mar 2021) http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.14014v3 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) 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