Andrea Burgess

Department of Mathematics and Statistics Office: KED 206

University of Ottawa Email: aburg018@uottawa.ca

585 King Edward Ave. Phone: (613) 562-5800 ext. 3508

Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5 Canada Fax: (613) 562-5776

I completed a B.A. (Honours) in Pure Mathematics at Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2003. In 2005, I completed an M.Sc. in Mathematics at Memorial University of Newfoundland, with thesis entitled Cycle Systems: An Investigation of Colouring and Invariants, under the supervision of Dr. David Pike. I am currently a Ph.D. student at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Ottawa under the supervision of Dr. Mateja Šajna.

Research

My research interests include decomposition of graphs into cycles and closed trails, and colouring problems (specifically colourings of designs and decompositions).

Publications:

Andrea Burgess and Mateja Šajna. Closed trail decompositions of complete equipartite graphs, submitted.
Andrea C. Burgess and David A. Pike. Colouring even cycle systems, Discrete Math. 308 (2008), 962-973.
Andrea C. Burgess and David A. Pike. Coloring 4-cycle systems. J. Combin. Des. 14 (2006), 56-65.

Teaching

Other

I am a member of the organizing committee of the Ottawa Mathematics Conference for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. This year's conference will be held May 16-17, 2009. (The homepage for the first Ottawa Mathematics Conference, held in May 2008, can be found here.)