Dr Thomas Britz
Education
- PhD in Mathematics (Aarhus University, 2003)
I am part of the at the here at 国产精品 Sydney.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND SERVICE POSITIONS
President of the (CMSA) (December 2021 鈥)
Friend of the Australian Council of Heads of Mathematical Sciences (December 2021 鈥 )
Chief Editor of (November 2015 鈥)
Managing Editor for the (August 2011 鈥 )
Area Editor for the (April 2014 鈥揙ctober 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)
Member of the Hybrid Learning and Teaching Community of Practice, 国产精品 (May 2023 鈥 )
Member of 国产精品 Student Wellbeing Community of Practice, 国产精品 (January 2022 鈥撎)
Academic Mentor, 国产精品 (2019听鈥 )
First Responder, 国产精品 (July 2018听鈥 )
Academic Advisor, MATH, 国产精品 (August 2010听鈥 )
Member of the Education Excellence Committee, Science Faculty, 国产精品 (March 2018 鈥撎)
Member of (uDASH), 国产精品 (August 2021 鈥 2024)
Member of the Sustainability Committee, MATH, 国产精品 (February 2020 鈥 2023)
Co-organiser of the 42th Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, 国产精品, December 2019听(March 2018听鈥撎鼶ecember 2019)
School liaison for the 国产精品 MathSoc, MATH, 国产精品 (Jan 2012 鈥 2018)
Chair of the Publicity Committee, MATH, 国产精品 (July 2014 鈥撎齋eptember 2018)
Lecturer's Representative for the School Standing Committee, 国产精品 (June 2011 鈥 2018)
Manager of Web and Social Media, MATH, 国产精品 (November 2017 鈥 August 2018)
Member of the Computing Committee, MATH, 国产精品 (February 2018 鈥 August 2018)
Member of the Research Committee, MATH, 国产精品 (October 2015 鈥 July 2017)
Pure Representative on the Postgraduate Committee, MATH, 国产精品 (September 2013 鈥 September 2017)
Chair of the School Standing Committee, MATH, 国产精品 (February 2014 鈥 April 2015)
Member of the Policy and Resources Committee, MATH, 国产精品 (February 鈥 December 2014)
Organiser of Pure Departmental Seminar, School of Mathematics & Statistics, 国产精品 (Aug 2010 鈥 Jan 2013)
Co-organiser of the Joint Colloquium, School of Mathematics and Statistics, 国产精品 (Aug 2010 鈥 Jan 2013)
Co-organiser of the 36th Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, 国产精品, December 2012 (March 2011 鈥撎鼶ecember 2012)
Member of the (August 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
- 国产精品 Light Digital Uplift of MATH3411: $15,000, 2019.
Vice-Chancellor鈥檚 Award for Outstanding Contributions to Student Wellbeing, 国产精品, 2021.
Science Dean's Award for Excellence in Student Wellbeing, 国产精品, 2021.
Vice-Chancellor's Award for Contributions to Student Learning, 国产精品, 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, 国产精品, 2023鈥
听 John Fitzgerald, 国产精品 (joint supervision with Lyria Bennet Moses, 国产精品 Law, and Ben Hachey, USyd), 2015鈥
听 Zhi Yee Chng, 国产精品 (joint supervision with Tan Ta Sheng and Wong Kok Bin, University of Malaya), 2024
听 Adam Mammoliti, 国产精品, 2019
听 James Ross, 国产精品 (secondary supervisor; primary supervisor: Catherine Greenhill), 2023
听 Haya Saeed Aldosari, 国产精品 (secondary supervisor; primary supervisor: Catherine Greenhill), 2020
听 Vicki Likourezos, 国产精品 (secondary supervisor; primary supervisor: Slava Kalyuga, 国产精品 Arts), 2016-2017
听 Peter Ayre, 国产精品 (secondary supervisor; primary supervisor:听 Catherine Greenhill), 2019
听 Ali Hussian Alkhaldi, 国产精品 (secondary supervisor; primary supervisor:听 Norman Wildberger), 2014
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Master by Research students:
听 Nero Ziyu Li, 国产精品, 2021
听 Sin Keong Tong, 国产精品, 2019
听 Zhi Yee Chng, 国产精品, 2017
听 Maria Fischer, 国产精品, 2015
听 Marie-Louise Hoejlund Rasmussen, Technical University of Denmark, 2005
Honours students:
听 Phillip Tzioumis 听国产精品, 2024-
听 Hayden McLean, 国产精品, 2023
听 Zhan Wei, 国产精品, 2023
听 Rickey Wu, 国产精品, 2023
听 Edmond Gao, 国产精品, 2021
听 Ryan Snoyman, 国产精品, 2020
听 David Morris, 国产精品, 2020
听 Michael Libman, 国产精品, 2019
听 Nelson Chen, 国产精品, 2019
听 Daniel Tanios, 国产精品, 2019
听 Jessica Dai, 国产精品, 2018
听 Tyson Churcher, 国产精品, 2016
听 Duncan Crowley, 国产精品, 2016
听 Adam Mammoliti, 国产精品, 2014
听 Elizabeth Alford, 国产精品, 2012
Master by Coursework students:
听 Demetra Siountris, 国产精品, 2020
听 Xin Hu, 国产精品, 2019
听 Salha Ahmed Alshaikey, 国产精品, 2012
听 Dalal Alanazi, 国产精品, 2012
听 Saad Althobaiti, 国产精品, 2012
听 Doug Han Yang, 国产精品, 2009
听 Ali Alkhaldi,听 国产精品, 2009
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Research Course Project:
听 Jovana Kolar, 国产精品, 2021
听听Abdellah Islam, 国产精品, 2020
听 Iker Carrera, 国产精品, 2020
听 James Ross, 国产精品, 2014
AMSI Summer Research Project:
听 Ariana Liu, 国产精品, 2023
听 Jovana Kolar, 国产精品, 2022
听 Tiana Tsung Ung, 国产精品, 2021
Summer Research Project:
听 Tiana Tsung Ung, 国产精品, 2020
听 Abdellah Islam, 国产精品, 2020
听 Charlie Stinson, 国产精品, 2019
听 Zijian Gao, 国产精品, 2019
听 Rui Tong, 国产精品, 2018
听 Jacky Huang, 国产精品, 2018
听 Gary Liang, 国产精品, 2015
听 Adam Mammoliti, 国产精品, 2014
听 Steve Sui, 国产精品, 2013
听 Kirsten Vo-Phuoc, 国产精品, 2012
听 Sen Lin, 国产精品, 2011
My Teaching
I have designed, created and lectured the HDR/Honours courses
Aspects of Combinatorial Optimisation (at Kumamoto University, 2011)
Combinatorial Enumeration and Optimisation (AMSI Summer School 2012, with Prof. Ian Wanless).
MATH5505 - Combinatorics (国产精品 2016, 2018)
An Introduction to Combinatorics (Aalto University, 2017)
and听written course material for, and lectured, the courses
MATH151 - Finite Mathematics (University of Victoria, BC, Canada)
MATH1081 - Discrete Mathematics
MATH1131 - Mathematics 1A
MATH1241 - Higher Mathematics 1B
MATH3411 - Information, Codes and Ciphers
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 .