Professor Alex Fink
Professor in Pure Mathematics; Head of the Centre for Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory
Email: a.fink@qmul.ac.ukTelephone: +44 (0)20 7882 5520Room Number: Mathematical Sciences Building, Room: MB-312Website: https://webspace.maths.qmul.ac.uk/a.fink/Office Hours: Semester A: Thursdays 1–2pm in MB312.
Profile
Alex Fink is Professor in Pure Mathematics in the School of Mathematical Sciences. He has interests in combinatorics, algebra and geometry, especially matroid theory and tropical geometry.
Prof Fink holds a PhD from UC Berkeley, and prior to this post was a postdoctoral researcher at North Carolina State University. His research has been supported by EPSRC. He serves on the editorial boards of the Bulletin and Journal of the London Mathematical Society and of Theoretical Computer Science A, and was joint chair of the programme committee of Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics 2017.
Research
Research Interests:
See Alex Fink’s research profile pages including details of research interests, publications, and live grants.
Member of the LMS Scheme 3 research group in Tropical Mathematics & its Applications and the UK Applied Algebra and Geometry research network.
Publications
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(2025). Projective hypersurfaces in tropical scheme theory I: the Macaulay ideal Research in the Mathematical Sciences nameOfConference.
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(2025). Extensions of transversal valuated matroids European Journal of Combinatorics nameOfConference.
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(2025). Matroids and the space of torus-invariant subvarieties of the Grassmannian with given homology class Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra nameOfConference.
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(2024). Signed permutohedra, delta‐matroids, and beyond Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society nameOfConference.
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(2024). Gröbner bases, symmetric matrices, and type C Kazhdan-Lusztig varieties Journal of the London Mathematical Society nameOfConference.
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(2022). INITIAL FORMS AND A NOTION OF BASIS FOR TROPICAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS Pacific Journal of Mathematics nameOfConference.
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(2022). Presentations of Transversal Valuated Matroids Journal of the London Mathematical Society nameOfConference.
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(2022). The Tutte polynomial via lattice point counting Journal of Combinatorial Theory: Series A nameOfConference.
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(2022). Equivariant K-Theory Classes of Matrix Orbit Closures International Mathematics Research Notices nameOfConference.
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(2021). Correction to: EQUIVARIANT CHOW CLASSES OF MATRIX VARIETIES (Transformation Groups, (2017), 22, 3, (631-643), 10.1007/s00031-016-9406-5) Transformation Groups nameOfConference.