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Well done Dr Allsop!

Wednesday, October 1st, 2025

Today we got the very exciting news that Jack Allsop’s PhD thesis on Latin Subrectangles (supervised by Prof Ian Wanless) has been passed without amendments. Both assessors were glowing in their praise and rated the thesis as exceptional in all categories. It really is an outstanding result. Well done Jack!

Vale Harald Bögeholz

Tuesday, September 30th, 2025
Devastating news: Our PhD graduate Harald Bögeholz has passed away while on a cycling holiday in Mallorca. Our sincerest condolences to his family and friends for this devastating loss.

Harald’s 2022 PhD thesis “A Relational Model for Parallel Computation” was supervised by Michael Brand and Graham Farr.

Congratulations Afsane

Wednesday, September 24th, 2025

Massive congratulations to Afsane Ghafari Baghestani who today submitted her PhD thesis entitled “When Transversals Collide”. Her thesis was supervised by Prof Ian Wanless. This is the third PhD submission from one of Prof Wanless’ students within the last 6 months!

Dr Michael Gill

Tuesday, September 16th, 2025

Huge congratulations to Dr Michael Gill, who graduated PhD today, Tues 16 Sep 2025. His thesis “Enumeration and Isomorphism for 1-Factorisations and Latin Squares” was supervised by Ian Wanless, with David Wood as Associate supervisor.

Michael with his Supervisor

Michael with his Supervisor

Congratulations Jack

Monday, July 21st, 2025

Huge Congratulations to Jack Allsop for submitting his PhD Thesis “Latin Subrectangles”. His thesis was supervised by Ian Wanless, with Daniel Horsley as Associate Supervisor. Jack already has a postgraduate job lined up in Berlin.

Combinatorics of McKay and Wormald

Wednesday, June 11th, 2025

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

Wednesday, June 4th, 2025

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!

Congratulations Michael

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025

Huge Congratulations to Michael Gill for submitting his PhD Thesis “Enumeration and Isomorphism for 1-Factorisations and Latin Squares”. His thesis was supervised by Ian Wanless, with David Wood as Associate Supervisor.

Congratulations Dr Gentle!

Wednesday, May 28th, 2025

Massive congratulations to Dr Amber Gentle who graduated PhD today, Wed 28th May 2025. Her thesis
“Covering Problems on Permutations”
was jointly supervised by Ian Wanless and Daniel Horsley.

Amber with her supervisors

Welcome Bertille

Thursday, May 1st, 2025

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