David Brewster

I am a second-year PhD student at Harvard in the Theory Group.

Research

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

Info

[ Google Scholar | CV | GitHub ]

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

News

• 2023-12-08 - Fixation times on directed graphs contributed talk at Workshop on Modeling and Applications of Evolutionary Game Theory
• 2023-11-02 - Evolutionary graph theory talk at UIUC Algebra-Geometry-Combinatorics Seminar

Teaching

• Teaching Fellow for MATH 242/243: Mathematical Biology-Evolutionary Dynamics
• Fall 2023, Spring 2024
• 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. Fixation times on directed graphs
   David Brewster, Martin Nowak, and Pepa Tkadlec
   Submitted, 2023
2. Channel capacity of the ribosome
   Daniel Inafuku, Kay Kirkpatrick, Onyema Osuagwu, Qier An, David Brewster, and Mayisha Zeb Nakib
   Physical Review E, 2023
3. Proper elements of Coxeter groups
   with József Balogh and Reuven Hodges
   Accepted to European Journal of Mathematics, 2024
4. Proper permutations, Schubert geometry, and randomness
   with Reuven Hodges and Alexander Yong
   Journal of Combinatorics, 2022