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Dr. Jerome Kelleher
Postdoctoral research assistant
Institute of Evolutionary Biology
Ashworth Laboratories
West Mains Road
Edinburgh
EH9 3JT
email: jerome.kelleher@ed.ac.uk
public key: public-key.txt

Biology

I am working on a new model of evolution in continuous space with Nick Barton and Alison Etheridge. This model is based on recurrent extinction/recolonisation events happening at a range of scales. The model solves some of important technical problems with the classical models of isolation by distance. My reseach has focused on calculating the probability of identity in state for randomly sampled genes, both analytically and through simulation.

Integer Partitions

Integer partitions are a fundamental combinatorial object. A partition of a positive integer n is an unordered expression of n as a sum of positive integers. My PhD thesis considered the problem of generating all partitions of an integer, and specifically, argued that the choice of encoding for generating partitions is critically important. See here for more details, and for the most efficient known partition generation algorithms.

Thanks to:

HTML Dog for the website design;
Don Knuth for making me a saver at the The Bank of San Serriffe;
the Linux kernel for managing my hardware;
KDE for giving me a great working environment;
Vim for being a great editor (and making sure there is always something new to learn);
and Kubuntu for packaging all this great software, making it really easy to use, and giving it away for free.