Bruce Reed

Professor of Computer Science, CRC Chair in Graph Theory, McGill University

Bruce Reed received his doctorate from McGill University in 1986. He has been a faculty member at the University of Waterloo and Carnegie Mellon University and a charge de recherche and directeur de recherche of the CNRS in France. He currently holds a Canada Research Chair in Graph Theory at McGill University. Professor Reed's research interests lie at the intersection of computer science and mathematics. He is particularly interested in graph theory and discrete stochastic processes. He has given invited talks around the world, including at the 2002 ICM in Beijing.

He was been a member of the PIMS SRP from 2007 - 2009.

 

Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize Lecture: Bruce Reed
July 18, 2013
Simon Fraser University
Finding ways of getting from place to place has occupied humanity since the dawn of civilization. The Romans built roads, Moses parted the waters, Dorothy clicked her heels (cf. the Wizard of Oz). Mathematicians settle for studying graphs. A graph is...