Archive for February, 2026

Carly submits her thesis

Thursday, February 12th, 2026

Congratulations to Carly Bodkin, who today submitted her PhD thesis entitled “The Combinatorics of Binary Matrices”. Her thesis was supervised by Ian Wanless.

Due to serious health issues it’s been a long and difficult journey to this point. But persistence is now reaping its sweet reward. A huge achievement!!

Marc Distel thesis submission

Sunday, February 8th, 2026

Congratulations to Marc Distel who has submitted his PhD thesis entitled “Global Structure of Minor-Free Graphs and Beyond” (supervised by David Wood). Marc’s candidature has been a tremendous success, producing 16 papers, including publications in Advances in Combinatorics; Combinatorics, Probability & Computing; Electronic J. Combinatorics; Innovations in Graph Theory; and SIAM J. Discrete Math. The thesis is based on five single-authored papers within the themes of coarse graph theory and graph product structure theory, which have been hot topics in structural graph theory over the past few years.