The group will be well-represented at the Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics Conference (CanaDAM) in June next year. Daniel Horsley is an invited speaker and organiser of an invited minisymposia “Graph Decompositions and Designs”, and David Wood is a co-organiser of an invited minisymposia “Structural Graph Theory”, while Ian Wanless is on the program committee.
The discrete mathematics research group will organise and host the 48th Australasian Combinatorics Conference (48ACC) at Monash on 7-11 December 2026. The website is now live:
https://48acc.github.io.
Group members will be invited speakers at various conferences in the 2024 European summer:
Daniel Horsley, Combinatorial Constructions Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Apil 2024
Melissa Lee, Groups & Algebras in Bicocca for Young Algebraists, Milan-Bicocca, 17th-21st June 2024
David Wood, 9th European Congress of Mathematics, Sevilla, Spain, July 2024
This week, several group members are attending the MATRIX workshop Extremal Problems in Graphs, Designs, and Geometries organised by Daniel Horsley, Anita Liebenau (UNSW) and Tibor Szabo (Freie Universitat Berlin).
This week Heiko, Santiago, Tomasz and Melissa are co-organisers of the 7th Australian Algebra Conference, held at Monash.
This week Graham Farr is co-organising with Jo Ellis-Monaghan (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Iain Moffatt (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Kerri Morgan (RMIT University) the MATRIX program Workshop on Uniqueness and Discernment in Graph Polynomials. Jo and Iain will be visiting Monash afterwards.
Today, in a significant honour, Robert Hickingbotham was awarded the CMSA Anne Penfold Street Student Prize. The prize was awarded to the best student talk at the 44th Australasian Combinatorics Conference. His talk was entitled “Product structure of graph classes with bounded treewidth” and arose out of work performed at a recent MATRIX workshop on Structural Graph Theory. It was judged on criteria including motivation, methods, organisation, substance, originality and rapport to be the best talk in a strong field.
Congratulations Robert on a great effort!
This week several group members are attending the MATRIX-IBS workshop Structural Graph Theory Downunder II in Creswick, just out of Melbourne. It is wonderful to be doing mathematics face-to-face again.
This week group members are organising and attending the MATRIX workshop Structural Graph Theory Downunder at Creswick, 100km west of Melbourne.
Participants:
Maria Chudnovsky (Princeton Uni), Zdeněk Dvořák (Charles Uni, Prague), Gwenaël Joret (Uni Libre de Bruxelles), Kevin Hendrey (IBS, Korea), Tony Huynh (Monash Uni), Nina Kamcev (Monash Uni), Ringi Kim (KAIST, Korea), Tereza Klimošová (Charles Uni, Prague), Anita Liebenau (UNSW Sydney), Chun-Hung Liu (Texas A&M), Natasha Morrison (Uni Cambridge), Marcin Pilipczuk (Uni Warsaw), Bruce Reed (McGill Uni), Alex Scott (Uni Oxford), Paul Seymour (Princeton Uni), Maya Stein (Uni de Chile), Jane Tan (Uni Oxford), David Wood (Monash Uni), Liana Yepremyan (Uni Oxford), Yelena Yuditsky (Ben-Gurion Uni), Xuding Zhu (Zhejiang Normal Uni)
Monash hosted the 5th International Combinatorics Conference from 3-9 December 2017. It was attended by 163 mathematicians and students from Australia, Canada, China, Croatia, Czechia, Germany, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Malta, New Zealand, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States and Vietnam (fully justifying the name of the conference!). There were 124 talks, 2 excursions, a public lecture and a memorable dinner.