Discrete Mathematics

Neel David Raj

Welcome to Debmalya Bandyopadhyay, who is a postdoctoral researcher working with Daniel Horsley.

A proud day as Afsane Ghafari graduates with her PhD. Just a shame that it’s not possible for her parents to come from Iran to be here to witness the occasion. But at least her academic father was there!

Welcome to new PhD student, Jeffrey Santrio, who will work on decomposition thresholds of graphs, supervised by Daniel Horsley.

Sophia Witham has won big at the Faculty of Science baking competition. Her 5x5x5 Latin cube made from 125 subcakes in 5 different flavours (chocolate, raspberry, lemon, carrot and red velvet) won both the mathematics prize and the people’s choice awards. A spectacular work — and believe me it tasted just as great as it looked! I’m really looking forward to her 4-dimensional hypercube in next year’s competition!!!

Huge congratulations to Dr Carly Bodkin, whose PhD thesis entitled “The combinatorics of binary matrices” has just been officially passed. The referees were impressed with the thesis and recommended it be passed with only minor corrections.

Carly was supervised by Ian Wanless.

This week several group members are at the MATRIX workshop Global Structure and Geometry of Graphs in Creswick. A stellar cast of international researchers are attending.

Massive congratulations to Jack Allsop whose 2025 PhD Thesis “Latin Subrectangles” has been awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for Thesis Excellence. His thesis was supervised by Ian Wanless.

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!!

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