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Details for Dr Ben Barber
| Personal details | |
| Name | Dr Ben Barber |
| Job title | Heilbronn Research Fellow |
| Department | School of Mathematics University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | BA(Cantab.), MMAth(Cantab.), PhD(Cantab.) |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | combinatorics discrete mathematics Ramsey theory |
| Areas of expertise | Discrete structures called graphs are used to model situations where the connections between objects are more interesting than the objects themselves, such as road or computer networks. Most problems we'd like to solve are hard: I study the edge cases of hard problems to find out what extra conditions make hard problems become easy. |