Dr Thomas Britz
Education
- PhD in Mathematics (Aarhus University, 2003)
I am part of the at the here at 麻豆社madou Sydney.
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)
Member of the Education Excellence Committee, Science Faculty, 麻豆社madou (2018 鈥撎)
Member of the Hybrid Learning and Teaching Community of Practice, 麻豆社madou (2023 鈥 )
Member of 麻豆社madou Student Wellbeing Community of Practice, 麻豆社madou (2022 鈥撎)
Academic Mentor, 麻豆社madou (2019听鈥 )
First Responder, 麻豆社madou (2018听鈥 )
Academic Advisor, MATH, 麻豆社madou (2010听鈥 )
Member of 麻豆社madou Data Science Hub (uDASH), 麻豆社madou (2021 鈥 2024)
Member of the Sustainability Committee, MATH, 麻豆社madou (2020 鈥 2023)
Co-organiser of the 42th Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, 麻豆社madou, December 2019听(2018听鈥 2019)
School liaison for the 麻豆社madou MathSoc, MATH, 麻豆社madou (2012 鈥 2018)
Chair of the Publicity Committee, MATH, 麻豆社madou (2014 鈥 2018)
Lecturer's Representative for the School Standing Committee, 麻豆社madou (2011 鈥 2018)
Manager of Web and Social Media, MATH, 麻豆社madou (2017 鈥 2018)
Member of the Computing Committee, MATH, 麻豆社madou (2018 鈥 2018)
Member of the Research Committee, MATH, 麻豆社madou (2015 鈥 2017)
Pure Representative on the Postgraduate Committee, MATH, 麻豆社madou (2013 鈥 2017)
Chair of the School Standing Committee, MATH, 麻豆社madou (2014 鈥 2015)
Member of the Policy and Resources Committee, MATH, 麻豆社madou (2014)
Organiser of Pure Departmental Seminar, School of Mathematics & Statistics, 麻豆社madou (2010 鈥 2013)
Co-organiser of the Joint Colloquium, School of Mathematics and Statistics, 麻豆社madou (2010 鈥 2013)
Co-organiser of the 36th Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, 麻豆社madou, December 2012 (2011 鈥 2012)
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
- 麻豆社madou Light Digital Uplift of MATH3411: $15,000, 2019.
Vice-Chancellor鈥檚 Award for Outstanding Contributions to Student Wellbeing, 麻豆社madou, 2021.
Science Dean's Award for Excellence in Student Wellbeing, 麻豆社madou, 2021.
Vice-Chancellor's Award for Contributions to Student Learning, 麻豆社madou, 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 Gabriel Nakhl, 麻豆社madou (secondary supervisor; primary supervisor: Chris听Goodrich), 2025鈥
听 Hopein Christofen Tang, 麻豆社madou, 2023鈥
听 John Fitzgerald, 麻豆社madou (joint supervision with Lyria Bennet Moses, 麻豆社madou Law, and Ben Hachey, USyd), 2015鈥
听 Zhi Yee Chng, 麻豆社madou (joint supervision with Tan Ta Sheng and Wong Kok Bin, University of Malaya), 2024
听 Adam Mammoliti, 麻豆社madou, 2019
听 James Ross, 麻豆社madou (secondary supervisor; primary supervisor: Catherine Greenhill), 2023
听 Haya Saeed Aldosari, 麻豆社madou (secondary supervisor; primary supervisor: Catherine Greenhill), 2020
听 Vicki Likourezos, 麻豆社madou (secondary supervisor; primary supervisor: Slava Kalyuga, 麻豆社madou Arts), 2016-2017
听 Peter Ayre, 麻豆社madou (secondary supervisor; primary supervisor:听 Catherine Greenhill), 2019
听 Ali Hussian Alkhaldi, 麻豆社madou (secondary supervisor; primary supervisor:听 Norman Wildberger), 2014
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Master by Research students:
听 Nero Ziyu Li, 麻豆社madou, 2021
听 Sin Keong Tong, 麻豆社madou, 2019
听 Zhi Yee Chng, 麻豆社madou, 2017
听 Maria Fischer, 麻豆社madou, 2015
听 Marie-Louise Hoejlund Rasmussen, Technical University of Denmark, 2005
Honours students:
听 Paris Kastanias, 麻豆社madou, 2025鈥
听听Isaiah Ilyffe, 麻豆社madou, 2025鈥
听听Ronald Chiang, 麻豆社madou, 2025鈥
听听Yasiru Jayasooriya 麻豆社madou, 2025鈥
听 Christian Albina, 麻豆社madou, 2024鈥
听 Phillip Tzioumis, 麻豆社madou, 2024
听 Hayden McLean, 麻豆社madou, 2023
听 Zhan Wei, 麻豆社madou, 2023
听 Rickey Wu, 麻豆社madou, 2023
听 Edmond Gao, 麻豆社madou, 2021
听 Ryan Snoyman, 麻豆社madou, 2020
听 David Morris, 麻豆社madou, 2020
听 Michael Libman, 麻豆社madou, 2019
听 Nelson Chen, 麻豆社madou, 2019
听 Daniel Tanios, 麻豆社madou, 2019
听 Jessica Dai, 麻豆社madou, 2018
听 Tyson Churcher, 麻豆社madou, 2016
听 Duncan Crowley, 麻豆社madou, 2016
听 Adam Mammoliti, 麻豆社madou, 2014
听 Elizabeth Alford, 麻豆社madou, 2012
Master by Coursework students:
听 Demetra Siountris, 麻豆社madou, 2020
听 Xin Hu, 麻豆社madou, 2019
听 Salha Ahmed Alshaikey, 麻豆社madou, 2012
听 Dalal Alanazi, 麻豆社madou, 2012
听 Saad Althobaiti, 麻豆社madou, 2012
听 Doug Han Yang, 麻豆社madou, 2009
听 Ali Alkhaldi,听 麻豆社madou, 2009
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Research Course Project:
听 Jovana Kolar, 麻豆社madou, 2021
听听Abdellah Islam, 麻豆社madou, 2020
听 Iker Carrera, 麻豆社madou, 2020
听 James Ross, 麻豆社madou, 2014
AMSI Summer Research Project:
听 Ariana Liu, 麻豆社madou, 2023
听 Jovana Kolar, 麻豆社madou, 2022
听 Tiana Tsung Ung, 麻豆社madou, 2021
Summer Research Project:
听 Ryan Yang, ANU, 2024
听 Tiana Tsung Ung, 麻豆社madou, 2020
听 Abdellah Islam, 麻豆社madou, 2020
听 Charlie Stinson, 麻豆社madou, 2019
听 Zijian Gao, 麻豆社madou, 2019
听 Rui Tong, 麻豆社madou, 2018
听 Jacky Huang, 麻豆社madou, 2018
听 Gary Liang, 麻豆社madou, 2015
听 Adam Mammoliti, 麻豆社madou, 2014
听 Steve Sui, 麻豆社madou, 2013
听 Kirsten Vo-Phuoc, 麻豆社madou, 2012
听 Sen Lin, 麻豆社madou, 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 (麻豆社madou 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 .