Discrete Mathematics

Congratulations to Marc Distel who has submitted his PhD thesis entitled “Global Structure of Minor-Free Graphs and Beyond” (supervised by David Wood). Marc’s candidature has been a tremendous success, producing 16 papers, including publications in Advances in Combinatorics; Combinatorics, Probability & Computing; Electronic J. Combinatorics; Innovations in Graph Theory; and SIAM J. Discrete Math. The thesis is based on five single-authored papers within the themes of coarse graph theory and graph product structure theory, which have been hot topics in structural graph theory over the past few years.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Today, Robert Hickingbotham submitted his PhD thesis “Exploring Sparse and Hereditary Graph Classes via Products and Tree-Decompositions”, supervised by David Wood. Robert’s candidature has been incredibly successful, with 17 papers published or submitted. Congratulations to Robert and David!

Update (14th June 2024): Robert’s thesis is now accepted. Update (24th June): The degree is officially conferred. Congratulations, Dr Robert Hickingbotham! Robert will start a post-doc at ENS Lyon in August.

Congratulations to Rui Zhang for submitting his PhD thesis “The probability of non-existence of small substructures in moderately sparse random objects (via clusters and cumulants)”, supervised by Nick Wormald. Rui is now working as a postdoctoral researcher in Barcelona with Gabor Lugosi.

Adam Gowty submitted today his PhD thesis “Problems related to Sperner set systems”, supervised by Daniel Horsley and Ian Wanless.

Update 9 Dec 2022: Adam’s thesis is now accepted. Congratulations Dr Gowty!

Dr Harald Bögeholz’s PhD was conferred on 8th June and he graduated today! His thesis is titled A Relational Model for Parallel Computation. Harald is the first PhD graduate of his Main Supervisor, Michael Brand. Associate Supervisor is Graham Farr.

Congratulations to Angus Southwell for submitting his PhD thesis
Properties of induced subgraphs of random graphs with given degree sequences supervised by Nick Wormald, Jane Gao, and Misha Isaev.

Update Nov 2022: Angus’s PhD has now been conferred. Congratulations Dr Southwell!