Prof. Alex Scott
Status
Academic Faculty
Professor of 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
Highlighted publications
Product structure of graphs with an excluded minor
Illingworth, F Scott, A wood, D Transactions of the American Mathematical Society volume 11 1233-1248 (01 Nov 2024) Erdos-Hajnal for graphs with no 5-hole
Chudnovsky, M Scott, A Seymour, P Spirkl, S Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (09 Feb 2021) Pure pairs. I. Trees and linear anticomplete pairs
Chudnovsky, M Scott, A Seymour, P Spirkl, S Advances in Mathematics volume 375 (03 Sep 2020) Moderate deviations of subgraph counts in the Erdős-Rényi random graphs G(n,m) and G(n,p)
Goldschmidt, C Griffiths, S Scott, A Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (26 May 2020) Detecting an odd hole
Chudnovsky, M Scott, A Seymour, P Spirkl, S Journal of the ACM volume 67 issue 1 (29 Jan 2020) Better bounds for poset dimension and boxicity
Scott, A Wood Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (18 Oct 2019) Complete monotonicity for inverse powers of some combinatorially defined polynomials
Scott, A Sokal, A Acta Mathematica volume 213 issue 2 323-392 (01 Jan 2014) Combinatorics in the exterior algebra and the Bollobás Two Families
Theorem
Scott, A Wilmer, E Journal of the London Mathematical Society http://arxiv.org/abs/1907.06019v2 Theorem
Asymptotic Dimension of Minor-Closed Families and Assouad-Nagata
Dimension of Surfaces
Bonamy, M Bousquet, N Esperet, L Groenland, C Liu, C Pirot, F Scott, A Journal of the European Mathematical Society Dimension of Surfaces
Research interests
Combinatorics, probability and related areas
Recent publications
Counting graphic sequences via integrated random walks
Balister, P Donderwinkel, S Groenland, C Johnston, T Scott, A Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (03 Apr 2025) Lower bounds for graph reconstruction with maximal independent set queries
Michel, L Scott, A Theoretical Computer Science volume 1034 115121 (01 Apr 2025) Some results and problems on tournament structure
Nguyen, T Scott, A Seymour, P Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B volume 173 146-183 (28 Feb 2025) A counterexample to the coarse Menger conjecture
Nguyen, T Scott, A Seymour, P Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B volume 173 68-82 (13 Feb 2025) Tight Bounds for Hypercube Minor-Universality
Hogan, E Michel, L Scott, A Tamitegama, Y Tan, J Tsarev, D (10 Feb 2025) http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06629v1