Professor James Martin

Associate Professor of Probability

Biographical Sketch

Before arriving in Oxford in September 2005, I worked in Paris (for the CNRS, based in University Paris 7) and at the University of Cambridge.

 

Research Interests

My research is in probability theory, with strong links to statistical physics and theoretical computer science. Research interests include:

  • Interacting particle systems;
  • Models of random growth and percolation;
  • Algorithms on trees (for example models of broadcasting and reconstruction);
  • Models of coagulation and fragmentation;
  • Performance analysis of queueing and communication networks

Publications

Chawla, S., Devanur, N., Holroyd, A., Karlin, A., Martin, J. and Sivan, B. (2017) “Stability of service under time-of-use pricing”, in STOC 2017 Proceedings of the 49th Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 184–197.
Deijfen, M., Holroyd, A. and Martin, J. (2017) “Friendly frogs, stable marriage, and the magic of invariance”, American Mathematical Monthly, 124(5), pp. 387–402.
Martin, J., Basu, R., Holroyd, A. and Wastlund, J. (2016) “Trapping games on random boards”, Annals of Applied Probability [Preprint].
Holroyd, A. and Martin, J. (2015) “Poisson allocations with bounded connected cells”, Electronic Communications Probability, 20(69), pp. 1–8.
Basu, R., Holroyd, A., Martin, J. and Wästlund, J. (2015) “Games on Random Boards.”
Foss, S., Martin, J. and Schmidt, P. (2014) “LONG-RANGE LAST-PASSAGE PERCOLATION ON THE LINE”, ANNALS OF APPLIED PROBABILITY, 24(1), pp. 198–234.
Holroyd, A. and Martin, J. (2014) “Stochastic domination and comb percolation”, ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF PROBABILITY.
Angel, O., Holroyd, A., Martin, J., Wilson, D. and Winkler, P. (2013) “Avoidance Coupling”, ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS IN PROBABILITY, 18, pp. 1–13.
Ferrari, P. and Martin, J. (2012) “How to squeeze the toothpaste back into the tube.”
Martin, J., Ramanan, K. and Konstantopoulos, T. (2011) “Editorial introduction”, QUEUEING SYSTEMS, 69(3-4), pp. 199–201.

Contact Details

Email: james.martin@stats.ox.ac.uk

Office number: 3.06

Research Groups

Probability