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