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Combinatorics of McKay and Wormald

June 11th, 2025 by David Wood

This week, several group members are attending the “Combinatorics of McKay and Wormald” program at MATRIX, organised by Jane Gao, Catherine Greenhill, Mikhail Isaev, Anita Liebenau and Ian Wanless. This event celebrates the lives and mathematics of Brendan McKay and Nick Wormald.

Brendan McKay and Nick Wormald

Congratulations Michael

June 4th, 2025 by David Wood

Michael Gill’s PhD thesis “Enumeration and Isomorphism for 1-Factorisations and Latin squares” has been accepted. Michael’s research has been published in Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society; Designs, Codes and Cryptography; and his latest paper was recently accepted to Random Structures & Algorithms. Congratulations to Michael and his supervisor, Ian Wanless!

Welcome Bertille

May 1st, 2025 by David Wood

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

Robert wins a university medal

April 8th, 2025 by David Wood

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.

The end of an era in Australian graph theory

April 1st, 2025 by David Wood

Nick Wormald’s last university lecture.

The Australian newspaper rankings

December 6th, 2024 by David Wood

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.

Daniel Kotlar

October 29th, 2024 by David Wood

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

Welcome Kevin

September 30th, 2024 by David Wood

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.

Congratulations Amber

September 30th, 2024 by iwanless

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.

Tim Chan’s graduation

May 27th, 2024 by David Wood

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.