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Discrete Mathematics
Our Research
We are one of the largest and oldest discrete math groups in Canada. Our group has a wide variety of expertise in pure and applied discrete math and combinatorics. Our research themes include Structural Graph Theory, matroids, enumeration, bioinformatics, ancestral genomics, digital communications, and Coding Theory.
People
Faculty
Cedric Chauve
Computational Genomics and Paleogenomics
Caroline Colijn
Canada 150 Research Chair in Mathematics for Evolution, Infection and Public Health
Matt Devos
Graph Theory
Luis Goddyn
Graph Theory
Jonathan Jedwab
Sequence and Array Correlations, Digital Communications, Quantum Information Theory
Jake Levinson
Schubert calculus, combinatorics of Young tableaux
Petr Lisonek
Cryptography, Coding theory, Quantum information theory
Bojan Mohar
Graph Theory, Theoretical Computer Science
Amarpreet Rattan
Algebraic and Enumerative Combinatorics
Ladislav Stacho
Graph Theory
Postdoctoral Fellows & Visitors
PhD Graduate Students
Recent Theses
2018
| Degree | Student Name | Thesis Title | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| PhD | Seyyed Hosseini | Game of Cops and Robbers on Eulerian DigraphsB | Bojan Mohar |
2017
| Degree | Student Name | Thesis Title | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| PhD | Ross Churchley | Odd Disjoint Trails and Totally Odd Graph Immersions | Bojan Mohar |
| MSc | Benjamin Moore | Rooted Graph Minors and Reducibility of Graph Polynomials | Karen Yeats |
| PhD | Iain Crump | Graph Invariants with Connections to the Feynman Period in φ4 Theory | Karen Yeats |
| MSc | Olga Zasenko | Algorithms for Colourful Simplicial Depth and Median in the Plane | Tamon Stephen |
| MSc | Tara Petrie | The Combinatorial RNA Design Problem for Binary Trees | Jonathan Jedwab |
| MSc | Stefan Trandafir | Magic Eulerian Hypergraphs | Petr Lisonek |
| MSc | Kevin Halasz | Coloring Cayley Tables of Finite Groups | Luis Goddyn |
| MSc | Samuel Simon | Linking Systems of Difference Sets | Jonathan Jedwab |
| MSc | Adam Dyck | The Realisability of γ-graphs | Jonathan Jedwab |
| MSc (Project) | France Paquet-Nadeau | On the Maximum Size of Condensed Sequences Neighbourhoods under the Levenshtein distance | Cedric Chauve |
2016
| Degree | Student Name | Thesis Title | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| PhD | Justin Chan | Three Problems Involving Permutations | Jonathan Jedwab |
| MSc | Akbar Rafiey | Algorithmic Aspects of some Vertex Ordering Problems | Ladislav Stacho |
| MSc | Lucien Lapierre | Vectorial Bent Functions in Characteristic Two | Petr Lisonek |
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Resources
PAST Events
- The 7th Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics Conference (CanaDAM 2019) 28 - 31 May 2019
- The 14th International Conference on Finite Fields and their Applications (Fq14) 3-7 June 2019
- Foundations of Computational Mathematics (FoCM 2020) June 2020
- Combinatorial Structures in Perturbative Quantum Field Theory
- FPSAC (Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics)
- Journées Combinatoires Franco-Vancouvéroises
- 2018 Pacific Northwest Combinatorics Day
- March 31 2018 Pacific Northwest Combinatorics Day
- Connections in Discrete Mathematics 2015
- SAC 2013 (Selected Areas in Cryptography)
- RECOMB 2011 (Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology)