Discrete Mathematics

Congratulations to Marsha Minchenko on the submission of her PhD thesis entitled “Counting Subgraphs of Regular Graphs using Spectral Moments”. And congratulations to supervisor Ian Wanless too.

Update (8 May 2014): Marsha has been awarded the PhD degree.

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 Tony Grubman, and his honours supervisor Ian Wanless, for their recent paper in JCTA. This paper is essentially Tony’s honours thesis.

Growth rate of canonical and minimal group embeddings of spherical latin trades. Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, 123.1:57-72, 2014.

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.

During July – August 2013, PhD student Adeline Langlois will be visiting from the LIP laboratory at ENS de Lyon, France. She is working with Ron Seinfeld on lattice-based cryptography and will give a seminar on “Classical hardness of learning with errors” to the group.

Congratulations to Michael Brand on the submission of his Ph.D. thesis. In what has become a tradition for the group, everyone accompanied Michael as he submitted.