Discrete Mathematics

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.

Prof Nick Wormald has been awarded the 2025 medal of the Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia.

This medal is awarded at most once every three years, and recognises lifetime achievements in research, student supervision, service and promotion of the discipline of combinatorics.

Melissa Lee is a star researcher. We knew that, but it was nice to have it recognised today with her winning an Early Career Researcher award from the Faculty of Science at Monash.

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!