Listed below are areas of research in which students may undertake a PhD, Masters, Honours or Vacation Scholarship with me. Please feel free to make an appointment to discuss any of these topics in more detail.

Information on postgraduate programs, enrolment, scholarships etc. can be accessed from the School of Mathematics and Physics Homepage (in which the discipline - previously Department - of MATHEMATICS lies).

See also my recent publications list for further information on my recent research.

Research Areas and topics for PhD research include:

• Graph decompositions - of complete and complete multipartite graphs; gregarious cycle decompositions; various small graph decompositions
• Decompositions of multipartite graphs with constraints, including gregarious systems.
• Combinatorial trades - of designs and graphs.     Trade volumes
• Block designs and various properties, including designs with repeated elements within blocks
• Applications and uses of trades and of graph decompositions

PhD/Research Masters Students for whom I've been principal supervisor:

Benjamin Smith (2009)
James Lefevre (2006)
Karen Harris (2006)
Peter Jenkins (2006)
Andrew Blinco (2003)
Peter Adams (1995)
Abdollah Khodkar (1994)
Diane Donovan (1987)

Research MSc students:
Nicholas Cavenagh (1999)

Also associate supervisor for several students previously and current.

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