Discrete Mathematics

Today, Simon Angus from the Monash Department of Economics spoke on the topic of graphs in economics. Here is an expanded version of his slides.

This week most of the group members are attending 37ACCMCC at The University of Western Australia. Nick Wormald and Graham Farr will be giving plenary lectures.

Congratulations to Norman Do, winner of a 2013 Victorian Tall Poppy Award.

Congratulations to Heiko Dietrich and David Wood for receiving DECRA and Future Fellowships respectively.

Members of the group visited the exhibition Illuminations by Andrew Baird at the Australian Synchrotron. These portraits include one of a combinatorialist and member of our group, Arun Mani. In the portrait Arun is holding a matroid. Two members of the group, Arun’s PhD supervisior, Graham Farr and PhD student Rosalind Hoyte, can be seen viewing the portrait in this photo.

Recently, Graham Farr spoke about William Tutte and Norman Do spoke about Évariste Galois at the laborastory.

Ian Wanless is the organiser of the Design Theory Minisymposia at the 4th biennial Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics Conference (CanaDAM), to be held from June 10-13 at the St. John’s campus of the Memorial University of Newfoundland. Speakers include our very own Daniel Horsley and Doug Stones.

Congratulations to A/Prof Ian Wanless, who was recently appointed as an editor-in-chief of The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics.

Graham Farr has won the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision. Here is Graham at the celebratory dinner.