Serte Donderwinkel

Bachelor or master project?

I am happy to supervise bachelor or master students from Groningen or elsewhere that want to work on a question in discrete probability theory. Together, we can look for a topic that we are both interested in. Feel free to send an email or to drop by my office! 

Teaching

I teach Introduction to Graph Theory for first-year bachelor students and Combinatorial Mathematics B (on random graphs) for first and second-year master students. 

Women+ lunch

With Cecília Salgado and Lara Vicino, we organize a monthly lunch meeting for female and non-binary identifying master students and academic staff in (applied) mathematics in Groningen. Send me an email if you are interested in attending!

Upcoming events

1. BIRS-CMI workshop on mathematical foundations of network models and their applications, 9-20 December 2024, Bangalore, India, organiser

2. Conférence de GdR Branchement, 27-31 January 2025, Orsay, France, mini-course lecturer

3. SLMath Program on Probability and Statistics of Discrete Structures, 21 January-16 May 2025, Berkeley, United States, research member 

4. University of Washington probability seminar, 3 March 2025, Seattle, United States, seminar speaker 

5. Bellairs workshop on probability and combinatorics, March 28-April 4 2025, Holetown, Barbados, invited participant

6. Bristol University probability seminar, 19 May 2025, Bristol, United Kingdom, seminar speaker 

7. Warwick University probability seminar, 21 May 2025, Coventry, United Kingdom, seminar speaker

8. Bath University probability seminar, 23 May 2025, Bath, United Kingdom, seminar speaker

9. Workshop evolving and spatial random graphs, June 1-5, Baryrischzell, Germany, invited speaker

10. Workshop in honour of Royal Statistical Society thesis prize, 11 July 2025, London, United Kingdom, organiser

11. CWI Themed Semester on phase transitions in probability, combinatorics and algorithms, Spring 2026, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, organiser

Research

1. Brandenberger, A., Donderwinkel, S., Kerriou, C., Lugosi, G. and Mitchell, R., Temporal connectivity of Random Geometric Graphs, 2025, arXiv:2502.15274 

2. Donderwinkel, S.  and Khanfir, R., Tight universal bounds on the height times the width of random trees, 2024, arXiv:2501.00458

3. Bassan, M., Donderwinkel, S. and Kolesnik, B., Tournament score sequences, Erdős-Ginzburg-Ziv numbers, and the Lévy-Khintchine method, 2024, arXiv:2407.01441

4. Bassan, M., Donderwinkel, S. and Kolesnik, B., Graphical sequences and plane trees, 2024, arXiv:2406.05110

5. Addario-Berry, L., Albenque, M, Donderwinkel, S. and Khanfir, R. Refined Horton-Strahler numbers I: a discrete bijection, 2024, arXiv:2406.03025

6. Addario-Berry, L., Briend, S., Devroye, L., Donderwinkel, S., Lugosi, G. and Kerriou, C. Random friend trees, 2024, arXiv:2403.20185 

7. Donderwinkel, S. and Kolesnik, B. Asymptotics for Sinaĭ excursions, 2024, arXiv:2403.12941 

8. Donderwinkel, S. and Kolesnik, B. Tournaments and random walks, 2024, arxiv:2403.12940 

9. Addario-Berry, L., Donderwinkel, S. and Kortchemski, I. Critical trees are neither short nor fat, 2023, arXiv:2311:06163, to appear in Annales Henri Lebesgue

10. Balister, P., Donderwinkel, S., Groenland, C., Johnston, T., and Scott, A. Counting graphic sequences via integrated random walks, 2023, arXiv:2301.07022, to appear in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

11. Addario-Berry, L., and Donderwinkel, S., Random trees have height O(√n), 2022, arXiv:2201.11773, to appear in the Annals of Probability

12. Addario-Berry, L., Blanc-Renaudie, A., Donderwinkel, S., Maazoun, M., and Martin, J. The Foata–Fuchs proof of Cayley’s formula, and its probabilistic uses, Electron. Commun. Probab. 28: 1-13 (2023), DOI: 10.1214/23-ECP523

13.  Donderwinkel, S., and Xie, Z. Universality for the directed configuration model: metric space convergence of the strongly connected components at criticality, 2021, arXiv:2105.11434

14.  Donderwinkel, S. Height process convergence of supercritical Galton-Watson forests, with an application to the configuration model in the critical window, 2021, arXiv:2105.12109, to appear in Advances in Applied Probability

Theses

1. The structure of large random graphs, PhD Thesis, August 2022, supervised by Christina Goldschmidt

2. The ant in the labyrinth, written in April 2018 as part of Part iii of the Mathematics Tripos at the University of Cambridge, supervised by Perla Sousi, primarily based on a paper by Noam Berger, Nina Gantert and Yuval Peres

3. Stein's method applied to preferential attachment graphs, written in June 2016 as part of BSc in Mathematics at the University of Groningen, supervised by Daniel Rodrigues-Valesin and Aernout van Enter, primarily based on a paper by Nathan Ross