Discrete Mathematics

Welcome to Bertille Granet, who joins the group as a postdoctoral research fellow, working with Daniel Horsley.

Huge congratulations to Robert Hickingbotham who has been awarded a 2024 Mollie Holman Medal for his thesis “Exploring sparse and hereditary graph classes via products and tree-decompositions“. This is the highest honour for a Monash PhD thesis.

Nick Wormald’s last university lecture.

Monash University has once again been ranked by The Australian newspaper as the leading institute in Australia in the field of Discrete Mathematics and in the field of Theoretical Computer Science, and David Wood is the leading researcher in the field of Discrete Mathematics.

Welcome to Daniel Kotlar, who is visiting from Tel-Hai Academic College in Israel.

Welcome (back) to Kevin Hendrey, who joins the group as a postdoctoral research fellow, working with David Wood. Kevin completed his PhD at Monash, and has spent the last five years at IBS in Korea.

Huge congratulations to Amber Gentle, who’s PhD Thesis “Covering problems on permutations” has officially passed examination. Both examiners rated the thesis very highly and only asked for minor corrections.

Amber was jointly supervised by Ian Wanless and Daniel Horsley.

Congratulations to Timothy Chan on the occasion of his PhD graduation. His thesis “Substructure Densities in Extremal Combinatorics” was jointly supervised by David Wood and Daniel Kral. His research has been published in Combinatorial Theory, RSA, SICOMP and JCTA.

Today, Robert Hickingbotham submitted his PhD thesis “Exploring Sparse and Hereditary Graph Classes via Products and Tree-Decompositions”, supervised by David Wood. Robert’s candidature has been incredibly successful, with 17 papers published or submitted. Congratulations to Robert and David!

Update (14th June 2024): Robert’s thesis is now accepted. Update (24th June): The degree is officially conferred. Congratulations, Dr Robert Hickingbotham! Robert will start a post-doc at ENS Lyon in August.

David Wood is currently recruiting a 2-year postdoctoral researcher in structural graph theory. The application deadline is 14th April 2024.