Robert Morris (mathematician)

Robert "Rob" D. Morris is a British mathematician who studies graph theory and combinatorics .

Morris studied at Cambridge University (Christ's College) and was a Research Fellow at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. He received his PhD in 2006 from the University of Memphis with Béla Bollobás (phase transitions in combinatorics). As a post-doctoral student he was in Tel Aviv , Tokyo and at the Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) in Rio, where he is an associate professor.

In 2016 he received the George Pólya Prize in combinatorics with Wojciech Samotij and József Balogh . In 2015 he received the European Prize in Combinatorics for his contributions to extremal and probabilistic combinatorics and especially to independent sets in hypergraphs, for bounds of Ramsey numbers, random cellular automata and bootstrap percolation (with Balogh, Hugo Duminil-Copin and Bollobas).

Fonts (selection)

• with Noga Alon, Jozsef Balogh, W. Samotij: A refinement of the Cameron-Erdös Conjecture, Proc. London Mathematical Society, Volume 108, 2014, pp. 44-72. Arxiv
• with Balogh, Samotij: Independent sets in hypergraphs, J. AMS, Volume 28, 2015, pp. 669–709, Arxiv 2012
• with J. Balogh, W. Samotij, Lutz Warnke: The typical structure of sparse- free graphs., Transactions AMS, Arxiv 2013 ${\displaystyle K_{r+1}}$
• with B. Bollobas, J. Balogh: Bootstrap percolation in three dimensions. Annals of Probability, Volume 37, 2009, pp. 1329-1380. Arxiv
• with Bela Bollobas, J. Balogh, Hugo Duminil-Copin: The sharp threshold for bootstrap percolation in all dimensions, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 364 2012, pp. 2667-2701. Arxiv
• with Bela Bollobas, Paul Balister: The sharp threshold for making squares, Annals of Mathematics, Volume 188, 2018, pp. 49–143, Arxiv 2016
• with Béla Bollobás, Hugo Duminil-Copin, Paul Smith: Universality of two-dimensional critical cellular automata, Arxiv 2014
• with Gonzalo Fiz Pontiveros, Simon Griffiths: The triangle-free process and R (3, k), Memoirs AMS, Arxiv 2013
• with Gonzalo Fiz Pontiveros, Simon Griffiths, David Saxton, Jozef Skokan: On the Ramsey number of the triangle and the cube, Arxiv 2013
• with J. Balogh, B. Bollobás: Hereditary properties of ordered graphs. In: Topics in Discrete Mathematics, Alg. Combin., 26, Springer, Berlin, 2006, pp. 179-213, Arxiv
• with J. Balogh, B. Bollobás: Hereditary properties of partitions, ordered graphs and ordered hypergraphs, European J. Combin., 27 (2006), 1263-1281, Arxiv

Web links

• Website IMPA

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Robert Morris in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
2. ↑ European Prize in Combinatorics 2015