The Ottawa-Carleton Discrete Mathematics Group

Research areas

• combinatorics (designs, enumeration, optimization)
• graph theory
  
• finite fields and applications
  
• analysis of algorithms
  
• automata and formal languages
  

 Faculty members

Professor	Contact information	Research areas
Sylvia Boyd	SITE University of Ottawa sylvia@site.uottawa.ca www.site.uottawa.ca/~sylvia	combinatorial optimization polyhedral combinatorics travelling salesmanproblem
Kevin Cheung	School of Mathematics and Statistics Carleton University kcheung@math.carleton.ca www.math.carleton.ca/~kcheung	discrete optimization
Zhicheng (Jason) Gao	School of Mathematics and Statistics Carleton University zgao@math.carleton.ca www.math.carleton.ca/~zgao	combinatorial enumeration graph theory
Lucia Moura	SITE University of Ottawa lucia@site.uottawa.ca www.site.uottawa.ca/~lucia/	combinatorial design theory combinatorial algorithms combinatorial optimization
Mike Newman	Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Ottawa mnewman@uottawa.ca http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/mnewman/	algebraic graph theory combinatorics matroids
Daniel Panario	School of Mathematics and Statistics Carleton University daniel@math.carleton.ca http://www.math.carleton.ca/%7Edaniel/	finite fields combinatorics analysis of algorithms
Mateja Šajna	Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Ottawa msajna@uottawa.ca http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/msajna//index.html	algebraic graph theory combinatorics applications of graph theory to biology
Benjamin Steinberg	School of Mathematics and Statistics Carleton University bsteinbg@math.carleton.ca mathstat.carleton.ca/%7Ebsteinbg/	automata formal languages
Brett Stevens	School of Mathematics and Statistics Carleton University brett@math.carleton.ca www.math.carleton.ca/~brett/	combinatorial design theory graph theory Gray codes
Steven Wang	School of Mathematics and Statistics Carleton University wang@math.carleton.ca www.math.carleton.ca/~wang	finite fields and applications combinatorics

PhD Comprehensive Exams in Discrete Mathematics

•  Graph Theory  MAT 5105 / MATH  5818
  

• Combinatorial Enumeration  MAT 5107 / MATH 5819

Other Discrete Mathematics courses offered regularly

• Combinatorial Optimization  MAT 5106 / MATH 5808
  
• Applications of Combinatorial Optimization  CSI 5166 / COMP 5805
  
• Combinatorial Algorithms CSI 5165 / COMP5709
• Topics in Combinatorial Mathematics  MAT 5301 / MATH 5609
  
• Topics in Algebra - Finite Fields  MAT 5327 / MATH 6101
  
• Linear Optimization MAT 5303 / MATH 5801
• Theory of Automata  MAT 5165 / MATH 5605
  

Seminars and research activities

• Combinatorics and Optimization Seminar, biweekly

• Discrete Math Day, annually in April or May

• Ontario Combinatorics Workshop, annually in April or May