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Melissa Lee

March 13th, 2023 by David Wood

Welcome to Dr Melissa Lee who has joined the School of Mathematics as Lecturer and DECRA Fellow. Melissa’s research interests include finite group theory, representation theory of almost simple groups, finite geometry and combinatorics.

Robert wins the student prize!

December 15th, 2022 by iwanless

Today, in a significant honour, Robert Hickingbotham was awarded the CMSA Anne Penfold Street Student Prize. The prize was awarded to the best student talk at the 44th Australasian Combinatorics Conference. His talk was entitled “Product structure of graph classes with bounded treewidth” and arose out of work performed at a recent MATRIX workshop on Structural Graph Theory. It was judged on criteria including motivation, methods, organisation, substance, originality and rapport to be the best talk in a strong field.

Congratulations Robert on a great effort!

Congratulations Ian

December 13th, 2022 by David Wood

Today, Ian Wanless was awarded the CMSA Medal of the Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia. The CMSA Medal is an award for long and meritorious service to combinatorics. It is established to pay tribute to those members of the CMSA who, over a long period, have taken a significant leadership role in the CMSA and who have made valuable contributions to combinatorics. Ian has served the CMSA as President (twice) and Council Member.

Visitors, visitors, visitors

November 27th, 2022 by David Wood

The group is hosting several international visitors this week.
Gwenaël Joret‬ (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Nick Cavenagh (University of Waikato)
Piotr Micek (Jagiellonian University)
Pat Morin (Carleton University)

Preston Fellows

November 14th, 2022 by David Wood

The group is currently hosting two Gordon Preston Fellows, Vida Dujmovic and Bruce Reed.

In the newspaper

November 9th, 2022 by David Wood

In the 2023 Research Awards of The Australian newspaper, Monash University is the “lead institution” in discrete mathematics, and David Wood is the “field leader” in both discrete mathematics and pure & applied mathematics.

Congratulations Adam Gowty

September 30th, 2022 by David Wood

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!

Award for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Education

September 28th, 2022 by David Wood

Graham Farr and Rebecca Robinson have received the Faculty of IT Dean’s Award for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Education. This was for creating an equitable, engaging and supportive learning environment for their students in FIT2014 Theory of Computation by developing and implementing innovations including: post-lecture interviews with key figures in the field during the COVID-19 lockdowns to better engage with students, with many interview subjects being women; embedding notes on the history of computer science throughout the unit, highlight key figures from underrepresented groups who were instrumental to the development of the field; a mentoring program for new tutors to help them build confidence, with Rebecca herself mentoring women tutors.

Congratulations Harald

September 27th, 2022 by David Wood

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.

Some recent papers by group members

September 13th, 2022 by David Wood

Nina Kamčev, Anita Liebenau, Nick Wormald. Asymptotic enumeration of hypergraphs by degree sequence. Adv. Comb. 2022.

Graham Farr. The history of Tutte–Whitney polynomials. In: Handbook of the Tutte Polynomial and Related Topics, Chapman and Hall, 2022.

Ian M. Wanless, David R. Wood. A general framework for hypergraph coloring. SIAM J. Discrete Math. 2022.

Alexander Cant, Heiko Dietrich, Bettina Eick, Tobias Moede. Galois trees in the graph of p-groups of maximal class. J. Algebra 2022.

Tao Feng, Daniel Horsley, Xiaomiao Wang. Novák’s conjecture on cyclic Steiner triple systems and its generalization. J. Combin. Theory Ser. A, 2021.

Norman Do, Danilo Lewański. On the Goulden-Jackson-Vakil conjecture for double Hurwitz numbers. Adv. Math. 2022.

Kevin Hendrey. Sergey Norin, David R. Wood. Extremal functions for sparse minors. Adv. Comb. 2022.

Chun-Hung Liu, David R. Wood. Clustered variants of Hajós’ conjecture. J. Combin. Theory Ser. B, 2022.

Mikhail Isaev, Angus Southwell, Maksim Zhukovskii. Distribution of tree parameters by martingale approach. Combin. Probab. Comput. 2022.