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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!
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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.
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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
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Thursday, May 1st, 2025
Welcome to Bertille Granet, who joins the group as a postdoctoral research fellow, working with Daniel Horsley.
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2025
Huge congratulations to Robert Hickingbotham who has been awarded a 2024 Mollie Holman Medal for his thesis “Exploring sparse and hereditary graph classes via products and tree-decompositions“. This is the highest honour for a Monash PhD thesis.
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2025
Nick Wormald’s last university lecture.

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Friday, December 6th, 2024
Monash University has once again been ranked by The Australian newspaper as the leading institute in Australia in the field of Discrete Mathematics and in the field of Theoretical Computer Science, and David Wood is the leading researcher in the field of Discrete Mathematics.
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Monday, September 30th, 2024
Welcome (back) to Kevin Hendrey, who joins the group as a postdoctoral research fellow, working with David Wood. Kevin completed his PhD at Monash, and has spent the last five years at IBS in Korea.
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Monday, September 30th, 2024
Huge congratulations to Amber Gentle, who’s PhD Thesis “Covering problems on permutations” has officially passed examination. Both examiners rated the thesis very highly and only asked for minor corrections.
Amber was jointly supervised by Ian Wanless and Daniel Horsley.
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Friday, March 1st, 2024
David Wood is currently recruiting a 2-year postdoctoral researcher in structural graph theory. The application deadline is 14th April 2024.
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