Robert Hancock
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, where I am a member of the Laboratory of Discrete Methods and Algorithms (DIMEA), under the supervision of Dan Kráľ. My research interests lie in extremal graph theory and additive combinatorics.
From July-December 2018 I was at the Czech Academy of Sciences, working with Jan Hladky. Before that I was at PhD student at the University of Birmingham under the supervision of Andrew Treglown, defending my thesis in October 2018. For the final semester of my PhD studies I visited Victor Falgas-Ravry at Umeå University as an Erasmus exchange student. Between 2010 and 2014 I completed an MMath at the University of St Andrews. Here is a copy of my CV.
Contact Details
Address: Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Botanická 68A, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
Email: hancock -at- fi.muni.cz
Office: C516, main FI building
Publications
Papers:
- Independent sets in hypergraphs and Ramsey properties of graphs and the integers (with Katherine Staden and Andrew Treglown, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 33 (2019), 153-188)
- The Maker-Breaker Rado game on a random set of integers (SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 33 (2019), 68-94)
- On solution-free sets of integers II (with Andrew Treglown, Acta Arithmetica, 180 (2017), 15-33)
- On solution-free sets of integers (with Andrew Treglown, European Journal of Combinatorics, 66 (2017), 110-128)
Conference Papers:
- Enumerating solution-free sets in the integers (with Andrew Treglown, Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, 56 (2016), 21-30)
Conferences, Workshops and Seminars
Talks:
- Combinatorics Seminar, University of Warwick, 27th November 2018
- Combinatorics Seminar, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, 23rd November 2018
- Discrete Mathematics Seminar, Umeå University, 24th January 2018
- DIMAP Seminar, University of Warwick, 9th January 2018
- Extremal Combinatorics, University of Warwick, 18th-22nd September 2017
- The 18th International Conference on Random Structures and Algorithms, Gniezno, 7th-11th August 2017
- 26th British Combinatorial Conference, University of Strathclyde, 3rd-7th July 2017
- Barcelona Combinatorics Seminar, 6th June 2017
- Scottish Combinatorics Meeting 2017, University of St Andrews, 24th-25th April 2017
- SIAM Discrete Mathematics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 6th-10th June 2016
- Scottish Combinatorics Meeting 2016, University of Glasgow, 26th-27th April 2016
- 1st IMA Conference on Theoretical and Computational Discrete Mathematics, University of Derby, 22nd-23rd March 2016
- Birmingham Combinatorics Seminar, 18th January 2016
Posters:
- LMS-EMS Mathematical Weekend, University of Birmingham, September 18th-20th, 2015 (award for best postgraduate poster)
Teaching
Birmingham Postgraduate Teaching Assistant:
- Numerical Programming (Spring 2017)
- Multivariate Analysis (Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Autumn 2017)
- Communication Theory and Combinatorics (Autumn 2015, Autumn 2017)
- Algebra & Combinatorics 2 (Autumn 2015)
- Linear Algebra (Autumn 2014)
- Number Theory (Autumn 2014)
- 1st year support class and computer lab demonstrating (Autumn 2014, Spring 2015, Autumn 2015, Spring 2016, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017)