Peter Nelson joins the C&O department

Peter Nelson begins an Assistant Professorship in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization (C&O) on July 1.

Peter received his Ph.D. in 2012 from the C&O Department under the supervision of Jim Geelen. His Ph.D. thesis, entitled Exponentially Dense Matroids, proved results that precisely control the extremal behaviour of minor-closed classes of matroids from surprisingly weak hypotheses. He then held postdoctoral fellowships at the Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Waterloo.

Peter's research interests are in structural and extremal matroid theory and graph theory, and more recently on their links with both coding theory and additive combinatorics.