Discrete Mathematics

Nick Wormald’s research is featured in in the latest issue of Monash Magazine. The article explains well the nature of some of Nick’s work, and of graph theory and pure mathematics generally, to non-technical readers.

Heiko Dietrich is co-organising a session on “Software, algorithms, and applications of computational group theory” at The 4th International Congress on Mathematical Software (ICMS 2014), which is a satellite conference of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2014).

Research group at David's submission

Congratulations to David Fear, who submitted his MSc thesis entitled “Diagonally Cyclic Equitable Rectangles and Cyclotomic Orthomorphisms” on 31 Jan 2014. David’s primary supervisor was Ian Wanless, associate supervisor was Daniel Horsley, and external supervisor was Tony Evans (Wright State University, USA).

Congratulations to Ian Wanless for his promotion to Professor. Richly deserved!

Congratulations to Marsha Minchenko on the submission of her PhD thesis entitled “Counting Subgraphs of Regular Graphs using Spectral Moments”. And congratulations to supervisor Ian Wanless too.

Today, Simon Angus from the Monash Department of Economics spoke on the topic of graphs in economics. Here is an expanded version of his slides.

This week most of the group members are attending 37ACCMCC at The University of Western Australia. Nick Wormald and Graham Farr will be giving plenary lectures.

Congratulations to Norman Do, winner of a 2013 Victorian Tall Poppy Award.

Congratulations to Tony Grubman, and his honours supervisor Ian Wanless, for their recent paper in JCTA. This paper is essentially Tony’s honours thesis.

Growth rate of canonical and minimal group embeddings of spherical latin trades. Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, 123.1:57-72, 2014.

Congratulations to Heiko Dietrich and David Wood for receiving DECRA and Future Fellowships respectively.