David Brewster

I am a PhD student at Harvard.

Research

My research is focused on evolutionary dynamics and topics in mathematical biology.

Info

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E-mail: [first name initial] [last name] [at] g [dot] harvard [dot] edu

News

• 2024-10-16 — Fixation times on directed graphs contributed talk at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology - Evolutionary Graph Theory Workshop
• 2024-10-08 — Visiting student at Charles University

Teaching

• Teaching Fellow for MATH 242/243: Mathematical Biology-Evolutionary Dynamics — Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025
• Teaching Fellow for COMPSCI 226r: The Theory of Algorithmic Fairness — Spring 2024
• Teaching Fellow for COMPSCI 224: Algorithms for Data Science — Fall 2023
• Course Assistant for CS 374: Intro to Algorithms and Models of Computation — Fall 2020, Spring 2021
• Course Assistant for CS 126: Software Design Studio — Fall 2017, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020

Papers

1. Maintaining diversity in structured populations
   David Brewster, Jakub Svoboda, Dylan Roscow, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Josef Tkadlec, and Martin Nowak
   Submitted
   
2. Fixation times on directed graphs
   David Brewster, Martin Nowak, and Josef Tkadlec
   PLOS Computational Biology, 2024
   
   • Slides from contributed talk at Workshop on Modeling and Applications of Evolutionary Game Theory
   • Slides from talk at UIUC Algebra-Geometry-Combinatorics Seminar
   • Code from paper
3. Proper elements of Coxeter groups
   with József Balogh and Reuven Hodges
   European Journal of Mathematics, 2024
   • Code from paper
4. Channel capacity of the ribosome
   Daniel Inafuku, Kay Kirkpatrick, Onyema Osuagwu, Qier An, David Brewster, and Mayisha Zeb Nakib
   Physical Review E, 2023
   
   • Article by UIUC Physics Research Highlights
   • Code from paper
5. Proper permutations, Schubert geometry, and randomness
   with Reuven Hodges and Alexander Yong
   Journal of Combinatorics, 2022
   
   • Slides by Alex from ICERM: Geometry and Combinatorics from Root Systems
   • Talk by Alex at ICERM: Geometry and Combinatorics from Root Systems