{"id":1347,"date":"2024-03-27T19:49:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T09:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2024-06-24T14:13:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T04:13:56","slug":"congratulations-robert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/2024\/03\/27\/congratulations-robert\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Robert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roberthickingbotham.com\">Robert Hickingbotham<\/a> submitted his PhD thesis &#8220;Exploring Sparse and Hereditary Graph Classes via Products and Tree-Decompositions&#8221;, supervised by <a href=\"https:\/\/users.monash.edu.au\/~davidwo\/\">David Wood<\/a>. Robert&#8217;s candidature has been incredibly successful, with 17 papers published or submitted. Congratulations to  Robert and David!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/161\/2024\/03\/IMG_0096-min-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/161\/2024\/03\/IMG_0096-min-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/161\/2024\/03\/IMG_0096-min-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/161\/2024\/03\/IMG_0096-min-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/161\/2024\/03\/IMG_0096-min-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/161\/2024\/03\/IMG_0096-min-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/161\/2024\/03\/IMG_0096-min-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Update (14th June 2024): Robert&#8217;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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Robert Hickingbotham submitted his PhD thesis &#8220;Exploring Sparse and Hereditary Graph Classes via Products and Tree-Decompositions&#8221;, supervised by David Wood. Robert&#8217;s candidature has been incredibly successful, with 17 papers published or submitted. Congratulations to Robert and David! Update (14th June 2024): Robert&#8217;s thesis is now accepted. Update (24th June): The degree is officially conferred. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3329],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1382,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions\/1382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}