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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!
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.
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
Welcome to Bertille Granet, who joins the group as a postdoctoral research fellow, working with Daniel Horsley.
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.
Nick Wormald’s last university lecture.
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.
Welcome to Daniel Kotlar, who is visiting from Tel-Hai Academic College in Israel.
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.
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.