Professor Bill Jackson

Profile

Bill Jackson received his PhD from the University of Waterloo in Canada in 1978 and then returned to England as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Reading. He has lectured at the University of London since 1980 and is currently Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Queen Mary. He has served on the British Combinatorial Committee and the editorial board of the Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B. He is a member of the Egerváry Research Group on Combinatorial Optimisation at Eötvös University in Budapest. His research interests are in Graph Theory, Matroid Theory and Discrete Geometry.

Research

Publications

• Garamvölgyi D, Jackson B, Jordán T (2026). Sparsity, stress-independence and globally linked pairs in graph rigidity theory International Mathematics Research Notices nameOfConference.

  10.1093/imrn/rnag201

  https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/handle/123456789/131314
• Jackson B, Jordán T, Villányi S (2026). Rank Contributions of Vertices in Rigidity Matroids of Clique Covered Graphs journal nameOfConference.

  10.48550/arxiv.2607.26266

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• Cruickshank J, Jackson B, Tanigawa S-I (2026). Volume Rigidity of Simplicial Manifolds journal nameOfConference.

  10.48550/arxiv.2503.01647

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• Cruickshank J, Jackson B, Tanigawa S-I (2026). Volume Rigidity of Simplicial Manifolds Combinatorica nameOfConference.

  10.1007/s00493-026-00218-x

  https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/handle/123456789/129711
• Cruickshank J, Jackson B, Jordán T et al. (2026). Rigidity of Graphs and Frameworks: A Matroid Theoretic Approach journal nameOfConference.

  10.1017/9781009766012.007

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• Garamvölgyi D, Jackson B, Jordán T et al. (2026). Sufficient conditions for bipartite rigidity, symmetric completability and hyperconnectivity of graphs journal nameOfConference.

  10.48550/arxiv.2511.00298

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• Garamvölgyi D, Jackson B, Jordán T (2025). Sparsity, Stress-Independence and Globally Linked Pairs in Graph Rigidity Theory journal nameOfConference.

  10.48550/arxiv.2509.03150

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• Cruickshank J, Jackson B, Jordán T et al. (2025). Rigidity of Graphs and Frameworks: A Matroid Theoretic Approach journal nameOfConference.

  10.48550/arxiv.2508.11636

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• Cruickshank J, Jackson B, Tanigawa S-I (2025). Rigidity of symmetric simplicial complexes and the lower bound theorem Forum of Mathematics Sigma nameOfConference.

  10.1017/fms.2024.150

  https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/handle/123456789/103251
• Cruickshank J, Jackson B, Tanigawa S-I (2024). Global rigidity of triangulated manifolds Advances in Mathematics nameOfConference.

  10.1016/j.aim.2024.109953

  https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/handle/123456789/99505