Dr Thomas Britz
Education
- PhD in Mathematics (Aarhus University, 2003)
I am part of the at the here at 亚美棋牌.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND SERVICE POSITIONS
Council Member of the (CMSA) (2024 鈥 )
President of the (CMSA) (2021 鈥 2024)
Friend of the Australian Council of Heads of Mathematical Sciences (2021 鈥 2024)
Chief Editor of (2015 鈥)
Managing Editor for the (2011 鈥 )
Area Editor for the (2014 鈥 2023)
Referee for 61 journals and 2 conference proceedings (> 175 reports)
Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews and Zentralblatt MATH (> 250 reviews)
Grant proposal assessor for ARC DP, NISDRG, FRP, Vidi (32 reports)
PhD Opponent/Assessor (2 times)
Co-organiser of the 42th Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, 亚美棋牌, December 2019听(2018听鈥 2019)
Co-organiser of the 36th Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, 亚美棋牌, December 2012 (2011 鈥 2012)
Organiser of Pure Departmental Seminar, School of Mathematics & Statistics, 亚美棋牌 (2010 鈥 2013)
Co-organiser of the Joint Colloquium, School of Mathematics and Statistics, 亚美棋牌 (2010 鈥 2013)
Chair of the Publicity Committee, MATH, 亚美棋牌 (2014 鈥 2018)
Chair of the School Standing Committee, MATH, 亚美棋牌 (2014 鈥 2015)
School liaison for the 亚美棋牌 MathSoc, MATH, 亚美棋牌 (2012 鈥 2018)
Manager of Web and Social Media, MATH, 亚美棋牌 (2017 鈥 2018)
Academic Mentor, 亚美棋牌 (2019听鈥 )
Academic Advisor, MATH, 亚美棋牌 (2010听鈥 )
First Responder, 亚美棋牌 (2018听鈥 )
Member of the Education Excellence Committee, Science Faculty, 亚美棋牌 (2018 鈥撎)
Member of the Hybrid Learning and Teaching Community of Practice, 亚美棋牌 (2023 鈥 )
Member of 亚美棋牌 Student Wellbeing Community of Practice, 亚美棋牌 (2022 鈥撎)
Member of 亚美棋牌 Data Science Hub (uDASH), 亚美棋牌 (2021 鈥 2024)
Member of the Sustainability Committee, MATH, 亚美棋牌 (2020 鈥 2023)
Member of the Computing Committee, MATH, 亚美棋牌 (2018 鈥 2018)
Member of the Research Committee, MATH, 亚美棋牌 (2015 鈥 2017)
Pure Representative on the Postgraduate Committee, MATH, 亚美棋牌 (2013 鈥 2017)
Member of the Policy and Resources Committee, MATH, 亚美棋牌 (2014)
Lecturer's Representative for the School Standing Committee, 亚美棋牌 (2011 鈥 2018)
Member of the (2018 鈥 )
Life member of the (CMSA)
I also enjoy a range of outreach activities, to promote mathematical thinking, learning and enjoyment.
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
Research Grants
$525,115 total awarded by grants, including the following:
- Discovery Grant: T. Britz, "Chromatic polynomials, random graphs, and error-correcting codes: a unified approach to graph colouring problems鈥, $242,066, 2007鈥2009
- PIMS Postdoctoral Fellowship, 20,000CAD, 2003鈥2004
- Villum Kann Rasmussen Postdoctoral Fellowship, 350.000DKK (2004鈥2005)
- Carlsberg Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, 350.000DKK, 2006
- , T. Britz,听$25,000, 2013
- 亚美棋牌 Light Digital Uplift of MATH3411: $15,000, 2019.
Vice-Chancellor鈥檚 Award for Outstanding Contributions to Student Wellbeing, 亚美棋牌, 2021.
Science Dean's Award for Excellence in Student Wellbeing, 亚美棋牌, 2021.
Vice-Chancellor's Award for Contributions to Student Learning, 亚美棋牌, 2015.
I am interested in most areas of discrete mathematics and combinatorics. Most of my research has been so far in graph theory, matroid theory, coding theory, combinatorial polynomials, combinatorial matrix theory, design theory, partially ordered sets, matching theory, flow theory, and enumerative combinatorics. Most of my research is highly foundational and theoretical but I also enjoy applying combinatorial methods and results to other areas, so far including big data in medicine, bioinformatics, criminology, ecology, electrochemistry, energy-storage, law, linear algebra, oceanography, psycholinguistics, quantum mechanics and renewable energy. I also very much welcome the opportunity to solve tangible real-life problems and have consulted for a variety of companies and government.
If you have any problem that might benefit from some math- or problem-solving skills, then please email me!
My Research Supervision
Supervision:
PhD students:
听 Hopein Christofen Tang, 亚美棋牌, 2023鈥
听 John Fitzgerald, 亚美棋牌 (joint supervision with Lyria Bennet Moses, 亚美棋牌 Law, and Ben Hachey, USyd), 2015鈥
听 Zhi Yee Chng, 亚美棋牌 (joint supervision with Tan Ta Sheng and Wong Kok Bin, University of Malaya), 2024
听 Adam Mammoliti, 亚美棋牌, 2019
听 Gabriel Nakhl, 亚美棋牌 (secondary supervisor; primary supervisor: Chris听Goodrich), 2025鈥
听 James Ross, 亚美棋牌 (secondary supervisor; primary supervisor: Catherine Greenhill), 2023
听 Haya Saeed Aldosari, 亚美棋牌 (secondary supervisor; primary supervisor: Catherine Greenhill), 2020
听 Vicki Likourezos, 亚美棋牌 (secondary supervisor; primary supervisor: Slava Kalyuga, 亚美棋牌 Arts), 2016-2017
听 Peter Ayre, 亚美棋牌 (secondary supervisor; primary supervisor:听 Catherine Greenhill), 2019
听 Ali Hussian Alkhaldi, 亚美棋牌 (secondary supervisor; primary supervisor:听 Norman Wildberger), 2014
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Master by Research students:
听 Nero Ziyu Li, 亚美棋牌, 2021
听 Sin Keong Tong, 亚美棋牌, 2019
听 Zhi Yee Chng, 亚美棋牌, 2017
听 Maria Fischer, 亚美棋牌, 2015
听 Marie-Louise H酶jlund Rasmussen, Technical University of Denmark, 2005
Honours students:
听 Paris Kastanias, 亚美棋牌, 2025鈥
听听Ronald Chiang, 亚美棋牌, 2025鈥
听听Yasiru Jayasooriya 亚美棋牌, 2025鈥
听 Christian Albina, 亚美棋牌, 2024鈥
听 Phillip Tzioumis, 亚美棋牌, 2024
听 Hayden McLean, 亚美棋牌, 2023
听 Zhan Wei, 亚美棋牌, 2023
听 Rickey Wu, 亚美棋牌, 2023
听 Edmond Gao, 亚美棋牌, 2021
听 Ryan Snoyman, 亚美棋牌, 2020
听 David Morris, 亚美棋牌, 2020
听 Michael Libman, 亚美棋牌, 2019
听 Nelson Chen, 亚美棋牌, 2019
听 Daniel Tanios, 亚美棋牌, 2019
听 Jessica Dai, 亚美棋牌, 2018
听 Tyson Churcher, 亚美棋牌, 2016
听 Duncan Crowley, 亚美棋牌, 2016
听 Adam Mammoliti, 亚美棋牌, 2014
听 Elizabeth Alford, 亚美棋牌, 2012
Master by Coursework students:
听 Demetra Siountris, 亚美棋牌, 2020
听 Xin Hu, 亚美棋牌, 2019
听 Salha Ahmed Alshaikey, 亚美棋牌, 2012
听 Dalal Alanazi, 亚美棋牌, 2012
听 Saad Althobaiti, 亚美棋牌, 2012
听 Doug Han Yang, 亚美棋牌, 2009
听 Ali Alkhaldi,听 亚美棋牌, 2009
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Research Course Project:
听 Jovana Kolar, 亚美棋牌, 2021
听听Abdellah Islam, 亚美棋牌, 2020
听 Iker Carrera, 亚美棋牌, 2020
听 James Ross, 亚美棋牌, 2014
AMSI Summer Research Project:
听 Ariana Liu, 亚美棋牌, 2023
听 Jovana Kolar, 亚美棋牌, 2022
听 Tiana Tsung Ung, 亚美棋牌, 2021
Summer Research Project:
听 Ryan Yang, ANU, 2024
听 Tiana Tsung Ung, 亚美棋牌, 2020
听 Abdellah Islam, 亚美棋牌, 2020
听 Charlie Stinson, 亚美棋牌, 2019
听 Zijian Gao, 亚美棋牌, 2019
听 Rui Tong, 亚美棋牌, 2018
听 Jacky Huang, 亚美棋牌, 2018
听 Gary Liang, 亚美棋牌, 2015
听 Adam Mammoliti, 亚美棋牌, 2014
听 Steve Sui, 亚美棋牌, 2013
听 Kirsten Vo-Phuoc, 亚美棋牌, 2012
听 Sen Lin, 亚美棋牌, 2011
My Teaching
I have designed, created and lectured the HDR/Honours courses
听 Aspects of Combinatorial Optimisation (at Kumamoto University, 2011)
听 Combinatorial Enumeration and Optimisation (AMSI Summer School 2012, with Prof. Ian Wanless).
听 An Introduction to Combinatorics (Aalto University, 2017)
听 MATH5505 - Combinatorics (亚美棋牌 2016, 2018)
and听written course material for, and lectured, the courses
听 MATH151 - Finite Mathematics (University of Victoria, BC, Canada)
听 MATH1031 - Mathematics for Life Sciences
听 MATH1081 - Discrete Mathematics
听 MATH1131 - Mathematics 1A
听 MATH1241 - Higher Mathematics 1B
听 MATH3411 - Information, Codes and Ciphers
听 MATH3521 - Algebraic Techniques in Number Theory
In total, I have lectured semester courses for 8,000 students.
I have also tutored numerous courses, for 2,000 students.
Here is quick access to some of my .