Early Researcher Award for Peter Nelson

C&O professor Peter Nelson is a recipient of a 2018 Early Researcher Award (ERA) from the Government of Ontario. The ERA program helps promising and recently-appointed Ontario researchers build their research team of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.

Matroids are known to exhibit surprising levels of symmetry and structure under very mild constraints. Peter's research proposal, entitled Emergent Structure in Matroid Theory, aims to explain such structure using topological, algberaic, and graph-theoretic methods, and also ideas from the field of arithmetic combinatorics.