Jake Horsfield

I am a trainee patent attorney in the Tech group at Kilburn & Strode
Before, I completed a PhD in structural graph theory
I was supervised by Professor Kristina Vušković

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Papers

• Claw-free \(\beta\)-perfect graphs
  with K. Vušković
  Accepted for publication in Discrete Mathematics
• Graphs with all holes the same length
  with L. Cook, M. Preissmann, C. Robin, P. Seymour, N. L. D. Sintiari, N. Trotignon and K. Vušković
  Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B (2024)
• List \(k\)-colouring \(P_t\)-free graphs: a mim-width perspective
  with N. Brettell and D. Paulusma
  Information Processing Letters (2022)
• Bounding the mim-width of hereditary graph classes
  with N. Brettell, A. Munaro, G. Paesani and D. Paulusma
  Journal of Graph Theory (2021)
• Two classes of \(\beta\)-perfect graphs that do not necessarily have simplicial extremes
  with K. Vušković
  Discrete Mathematics (2021)

Teaching

• 2021: TA for Algorithms & Data Structures 1 (Level 2) and Fundamental Mathematical Concepts (Level 1)
• 2020: TA for Graph Theory: Structure and Algorithms (Masters level)
• 2020: TA for Introduction to Discrete Mathematics (Level 1)
• 2019: TA for Algorithms & Data Structures 1 (Level 2)
• 2019: TA for Introduction to Discrete Mathematics (Level 1)

Talks

• Algorithms and Complexity Seminar 03/2021 (Leeds) Variations on 2-joins [slides]
• ACiD Seminar 02/2020 (Durham) \(\beta\)-perfect graphs that do not necessarily have simplicial extremes [slides]
• Workshop on even-hole-free graphs 04/2019 (Belgrade) \(\beta\)-perfect graphs [slides]

Conferences, workshops and research trips

• Research visit to Wilfrid Laurier University, 1-22 July 2022 (hosted by Kathie Cameron)
• Research visit to Durham University, 25-28 Feb 2020 (hosted by Daniel Paulusma)
• Research visit to ENS de Lyon, 2-9 June 2019 (hosted by Nicolas Trotignon)
• Bordeaux Graph Workshop 2019 (Bordeaux)
• Algorithms UK Workshop 2019 (Warwick)
• British Combinatorial Conference 2019 (Birmingham)
• Postgraduate Combinatorial Conference 2019 (Oxford)
• Workshop on even-hole-free graphs 2019 (Belgrade)

Other

• Together with Ben Bumpus, Ethan Kelly and Michael McKay, I was an organiser of the e-PCC seminar, an online seminar series for PhD students and postdocs working in discrete mathematics and combinatorics.