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
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, 麻豆社madou (May 2023 鈥 )
Member of 麻豆社madou Student Wellbeing Community of Practice, 麻豆社madou (January 2022 鈥撎)
Academic Mentor, 麻豆社madou (2019听鈥 )
First Responder, 麻豆社madou (July 2018听鈥 )
Academic Advisor, MATH, 麻豆社madou (August 2010听鈥 )
Member of the Education Excellence Committee, Science Faculty, 麻豆社madou (March 2018 鈥撎)
Member of (uDASH), 麻豆社madou (August 2021 鈥 2024)
Member of the Sustainability Committee, MATH, 麻豆社madou (February 2020 鈥 2023)
Co-organiser of the 42th Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, 麻豆社madou, December 2019听(March 2018听鈥撎鼶ecember 2019)
School liaison for the 麻豆社madou MathSoc, MATH, 麻豆社madou (Jan 2012 鈥 2018)
Chair of the Publicity Committee, MATH, 麻豆社madou (July 2014 鈥撎齋eptember 2018)
Lecturer's Representative for the School Standing Committee, 麻豆社madou (June 2011 鈥 2018)
Manager of Web and Social Media, MATH, 麻豆社madou (November 2017 鈥 August 2018)
Member of the Computing Committee, MATH, 麻豆社madou (February 2018 鈥 August 2018)
Member of the Research Committee, MATH, 麻豆社madou (October 2015 鈥 July 2017)
Pure Representative on the Postgraduate Committee, MATH, 麻豆社madou (September 2013 鈥 September 2017)
Chair of the School Standing Committee, MATH, 麻豆社madou (February 2014 鈥 April 2015)
Member of the Policy and Resources Committee, MATH, 麻豆社madou (February 鈥 December 2014)
Organiser of Pure Departmental Seminar, School of Mathematics & Statistics, 麻豆社madou (Aug 2010 鈥 Jan 2013)
Co-organiser of the Joint Colloquium, School of Mathematics and Statistics, 麻豆社madou (Aug 2010 鈥 Jan 2013)
Co-organiser of the 36th Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, 麻豆社madou, 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
- 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 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 Phillip Tzioumis 听麻豆社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 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
Aspects of Combinatorial Optimisation (at Kumamoto University, 2011)
Combinatorial Enumeration and Optimisation (AMSI Summer School 2012, with Prof. Ian Wanless).
MATH5505 - Combinatorics (麻豆社madou 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 .