COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA (INC)
CMSA E-Newsletter Number 3 (June 2000)
INTRODUCTION:
CLOSING DATE for Issue 4: 30 September 2000. Email ejb@maths.uq.edu.au with all your news and information.
AIMS of the newsletter:
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RECENT CONFERENCE REPORTS
:The University of Adelaide Institute for Geometry and its Applications Workshop -- Finite and Topological Geometries 17 - 21 January 2000
The Institute for Geometry and its Applications again sponsored a
workshop in January of 2000, organised by Christine O'Keefe.
There was a relatively small number of talks of varying lengths,
leaving plenty of time for informal discussions and research meetings.
A feature was that on Monday particpants presented research problems
or proposals and progress was reported on Friday.
The brand new Engineering and Mathematics Building provided an
excellent venue, with the nearby Gate One Cafe a welcome change
(Coopers on tap).
The social programme included dinner at the famous Jasmin Indian
Restaurant, Breakfast at Tiffany's at the Botanic Gardens outdoor
cinema and a walk/run around the beautiful Morialta reserve in the
Adelaide foothills. After the workshop several participants stayed
on to visit the Flinders Ranges, dodging kangaroos and low cloud to
climb Saint Mary Peak.
Burkard Polster provided excellent workshop tshirts, once again.
The participants were Sue Barwick, Peter Cameron, Rey Casse, Frank De Clerck, Mario Delanote, Nicholas Hamilton, Michel Lavrauw, Maska Law, Robert Maddock, Rudi Mathon, Christine O'Keefe, Tim Penttila, Burkard Polster, Catherine Quinn, Andreas Schroth and Hendrik Van Maldeghem.
Christine O'Keefe
Organiser
cokeefe@maths.adelaide.edu.au
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FUTURE WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS
:Too late for attendance, but the Conference COMBINATORICS 2000 is on right now (28 May - 3 June) in Gaeta, Italy. You can check out talk abstracts, speakers etc., via the web page http://www.mat.uniroma1.it/combinatorics2000/
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The 44th AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY CONFERENCE will include a special session on combinatorics. This will be held at the University of Queensland from 2 - 5 July 2000, starting at 11am on the SUNDAY.-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-
From 10-12 July 2000, QUT is hosting ACISP 2000, AUSTRALASIAN CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION SECURITY AND PRIVACY. This is the fifth annual ACISP conference. Further information can be found at www.isrc.qut.edu.au/acisp2K-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-
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ALGEBRAIC AND TOPOLOGICAL METHODS IN GRAPH THEORY, ATMGT2000This is a conference devoted to all aspects of Graph Theory with a particular emphasis on Algebraic and Topological methods. It follows the 25th ACCMCC which is the week beforehand in Christchurch. Additionally, an international conference on Technology in Mathematics Education will be taking place at the same location as ATMGT2000 during the same week. See http://www.math.auckland.ac.nz/TIME2000
INVITED SPEAKERS
Please see the web page at http://www.math.auckland.ac.nz/atmgt2000/ for the PROGRAM, and details on PARTICIPATION, ACCOMMODATION, and information about New Zealand and Auckland, travel and visas etc.
The CONFERENCE COMMITTEE is:
Dr Paul Bonnington (p.bonnington@auckland.ac.nz),
Prof Marston Conder (conder@math.auckland.ac.nz),
Dr Margaret Morton (morton@math.auckland.ac.nz),
Jamie Sneddon (sneddon@math.auckland.ac.nz),
Dr Michael Dinneen (mjd@cs.auckland.ac.nz).
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BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON GRAPHS, ALGORITHMS AND COMBINATORICS (GRACO 2001) will be held from March 17-19, 2001 in Fortaleza, Ceara State, Brazil. See http://www.lia.ufc.br/symp2001
Ceara is a state in the northeastern region of Brazil. Fortaleza has a great tourism infra-structure and good hotels, pleasant weather and beautiful landscapes, which make it an ideal place for scientific exchange among the participants of the symposium. GRACO 2001 is open to faculty members, researchers, specialists and graduate students from around the world, and will take place in conjunction with the Brazilian Summer School on Combinatorics and Algorithms (see http://www.lia.ufc.br/scho2001 ).
Extended abstracts presenting original contributions to algorithms and combinatorics are being sought. The list of topics of interest includes: approximation/randomized algorithms, combinatorial biology, combinatorial optimization, cryptography, data structures, discrete algorithms, enumerative combinatorics, graph theory, ordered sets, parallel/distributed algorithms and polyhedral combinatorics.
Submissions: Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract not exceeding 4 pages, including figures and bibliography, and using 11pt or larger font, before October 25, 2000. This deadline is firm. The cover page of the extended abstract must contain the authors' full names, addresses, fax numbers, e-mail addresses and keywords. A detailed description of the electronic submission process will be available soon at http://www.lia.ufc.br/symp2001.
Notification: Authors will be sent notification of acceptance or rejection by e-mail before December 16, 2000. A final version of the extended abstract is required by January 13, 2001. Accepted papers are supposed to be presented at the symposium.
Publication: Selected full papers from the symposium will appear as a special issue of a journal to be announced shortly. The submission of the full texts for the special issue is encouraged, but not compulsory. The deadline for submission is April 21, 2001.
For the Program Committee please see
http://www.lia.ufc.br/symp2001.
The preliminary list of Invited Speakers includes:
Organizing Committee:
Manoel Campelo Neto, Fortaleza (Co-Chair);
Ricardo Correa, Fortaleza (Chair);
Fernando Gomes, UFC, Fortaleza (Co-Chair).
Important dates:
Submissions: October 25, 2000
Notification: December 16, 2000
Final version due: January 13, 2001
Journal submission: April 21, 2001
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The next BRITISH COMBINATORIAL CONFERENCE, 18BCC, will be at the University of Sussex, Brighton, from 1 - 6 July 2001.(Plan ahead for that overseas trip now! These are large conferences held each odd-numbered year in early July, although they are not as large as the Southeastern conferences in Boca Raton or Baton Rouge each March.)
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AAECC-14, the 14th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED ALGEBRA, ALGEBRAIC ALGORITHMS AND ERROR-CORRECTING CODES, will be held for the first time in Australia: from November 26-30, 2001, in Melbourne at RMIT.-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-
RECENT NEWS OF CMSA MEMBERS
:MANLEY PERKEL has been appointed Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.
SANPEI KAGEYAMA
says that his mailing address and e-mail are now:
Sanpei Kageyama, D.Sc.
Department of Mathematics
Faculty of Education
Hiroshima University
1-1-1 Kagamiyama 739-8524
Japan
E-mail: ksanpei@hiroshima-u.ac.jp
In some email from CURT LINDNER: "A football coach at Florida State University reportedly told his players to pair up in groups of three then line up in a circle. THEY DID!"
JIM MACDOUGALL writes: In 1999 ROGER EGGLETON was appointed a Conjoint Professor (an honorary position) in the Mathematics Department at the University of Newcastle. He is still employed at Illinois State University and is spending the first half of 2000 on sabbatical in Newcastle.
NICHOLAS HAMILTON
has been awarded a prestigious Kirkman medal by the
Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications.
"The Kirkman Medal recognises outstanding work by members of the ICA
in the early stages of their research careers. ...
The medal recognizes a significant body of research work of high quality;
it is not an award for an excellent PhD thesis."
The ICA is a world-wide organisation (incorporated in Canada).
Previous Kirkman medallists are:
1994 Robert Craigen, Jonathan Jedwab
1995 Darryn Bryant
1996 Greg Gutin, Patric Ostergard
1997 Makoto Matsumoto, Bernhard Schmidt
1998 Peter Adams, Cai Heng Li
So the Department of Mathematics at UQ now has three Kirkman medallists,
Darryn Bryant, Peter Adams and Nicholas Hamilton!
Nicholas has just moved to the University of Gent, Belgium, where he has taken up a two year postdoctoral fellowship, working with members of the computer algebra group in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Computer Algebra at Gent. He emailed to say that Gent also has a "chain" of ICA medallists: Kirkman (Nicholas Hamilton); Hall (Hendrik van Maldeghem); Euler (Jef Thas).
Check out Nicholas' home page at
http://cage.rug.ac.be/~nick/
and note the "NAME THE BABY" competition!
Congratulations to Nick and Jillian.
Quote from Nick, after he heard about the Kirkman medal:
"Had a celebratory Chinese takeaway last night, but didn't
enjoy it much as I was still traumatised by the images of
childbirth in Jillians baby classes. UUgggghhhh. The only good
news in the class was that "all the husbands have a belt of the
gas when they think no-one is loooking". So one thing to look
forward to at least."
CHRIS RODGER
writes with news from Auburn University:
Chris will be visiting Newcastle (and UQ too at some point) from
mid August to early December 2000.
[Note from Ed: coincidentally, the Olympics are on during that time,
and Chris' parents live in Sydney!]
JAMES McGEE has his PhD on Path-covering designs.
ATIF ABUEIDA is about to finish, having polished off the n to 2n
idempotent embedding problem.
DAVID ASHE is about to finish, finding 6-cycle systems of Kn-G for
any admissable forest or 2-regular graph G.
FRANK RUSKEY
writes from the University of Victoria, BC:
Frank will be visiting Peter Eades and Mirka Miller at the
University of Newcastle from July 2000 - June 2001 on a
sabbatical leave. He looks forward also to travelling around
the country and meeting with other CSMA members during that time.
BOB SULLIVAN
(ex UWA, Perth) has been HOD for Maths and Stats at
Sultan Qaboos University, Oman (in the Middle East) since September 1998.
Oman is very attractive scenically and very stable politically and,
provided 4 weeks notice is given, SQU will arrange a visa and accommodation
for visiting academics. CMSA members are invited to contact Bob at
Bob can be reached as follows:
Assoc Prof Bob Sullivan
Head, Dept of Maths and Stats
Sultan Qaboos University
PO Box 36, Al Khodh 123
Sultanate of Oman
email: bobsull@squ.edu.om
Phone: +968+515420;
Fax: +968+513415
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VISITORS
:EBAD MAHMOODIAN is currently at UQ, on leave from Sharif University in Iran, until October 2000.
HUNG-LIN FU (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan) and MIWAKO MISHIMA (Gifu University, Japan) will be visiting UQ from 10 - 20 August 2000.
Also MIDORI KOBAYASHI from the University of Shizuoka, Japan, will be visiting UQ from 15 July to 30 September 2000.
See also news of members above: visitors to Newcastle soon include CHRIS RODGER and FRANK RUSKEY.
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MEMBERS (OR STUDENTS OF MEMBERS) RECENT RESEARCH DEGREES
:
Congratulations to
ATHULA PERERA
who had his PhD approved in December
last year by RMIT. His thesis title is
"Orthogonal cocycles: Theory and Applications",
and Supervisors were: Kathy Horadam (Senior), Asha Baliga (Second).
Dr PERERA has now returned to Sri Lanka and is Senior Lecturer in the
Department of Mathematics at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
Congratulations to
GARRY HUGHES,
who has had his PhD approved
in May 2000 by RMIT. His thesis title is
"Codes and arrays from cocycles",
and Supervisors were: Kathy Horadam (Senior), Serdar Boztas (Second).
Dr HUGHES has now taken up a position as Research Scientist with
Cryptomathematics Research Group, DSTO, Canberra.
Congratulations to JAMES McGEE of Auburn University, who now has his PhD on Path-covering designs approved; supervisor Chris Rodger.
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PREPRINTS/RECENT PUBLICATIONS BY MEMBERS:
:Tim Blackmore and Graham Norton: On Trellis Structures for Reed-Muller Codes. Finite Fields and Their Applications Vol 6, 39-70 (2000).
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NEW COURSE AT RMIT:
:ASHA BALIGA has sent in the following:
Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma, Master of Applied Science
(By Coursework) In INFORMATION SECURITY
See
http://www.ma.rmit.edu.au/kepler/pgrad/InfoSec.html
The development of the INTERNET, E-Commerce, Electronic Banking, EFTPOS,
etc. has resulted in industry demand for trained professionals who can
work in technical and managerial roles in addressing security risks in
this new and exciting field.
The course will provide a strategic and practical overview of the issues
involved in the field of Information Security (IS). Graduates will have
the ability to evaluate IS risks in a practical context as well as be able
to apply the principles of IS in Information Technology (IT). Along with
the ability to critically appraise IS solutions, they will have a sound
understanding of the relationship between IS and IT disciplines. A
thorough understanding of the mathematical principles which underlie the
components of IS will facilitate a practical understanding of the issues
in secure electronic commerce.
COURSE STRUCTURE
The Master of Applied Science in IS consists of 12 subjects, equivalent
to 3 semesters full-time or 6 semesters (3 years) part-time. It is
possible to exit the course early with a Graduate Certificate (after
two semesters) or a Graduate Diploma (after 4 semesters). The Graduate
Certificate and Graduate Diploma are awarded to the Master of Applied
Science student as and when they complete the appropriate requirements.
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TheAUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF COMBINATORICS
reminds readers that billing is no longer through the University of Queensland, but is to the AJC direct. (The journal now accepts Visa, Mastercard and Bankcard.) Peter Adams is now the Financial Manager of the AJC.-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
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