Sanming Zhou
School of Mathematics and Statistics
The University of Melbourne
Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
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I am a Professor
in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at The University of Melbourne, where I have been working ever since
the completion of my PhD at the University of Western Australia in 2000.
Research Interests
My research interests encompass both pure and applied aspects of Discrete Mathematics, including various topics in Graph Theory, Algebraic Graph Theory, Combinatorial Optimization and Theoretical Computer Science.
Teaching
I have taught the following subjects at The University of Melbourne: Introductory Mathematics, Calculus 2, Linear Algebra, Discrete Mathematics and Operations Research, Graph Theory, Discrete Mathematics, Decision Making, Network Optimization, Modelling of Business, Management and Industrial Problems.
Student Supervision
See my Official Page for a nearly complete list of current and past students.
Awards and Fellowships
Future Fellowship, Australian Research Council (ARC), 2012-2015
Kirkman Medal, Institute of Combinatorics and Its Applications, 2003
Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship (currently known as DECRA), ARC, 2003
Distinction for PhD Thesis, The University of Western Australia, 2001
ARC Discovery Projects
Perfect codes in Cayley graphs (DP250104965, S. Zhou and B. Xia, 2025-2027)
Hadwiger's graph colouring conjecture (DP120101081, D. Wood and S. Zhou, 2012-2014)
Channel assignment in cellular communication systems and optical networks (DP0558677, S. Zhou and V. Mak, 2005-2008)
Interconnection network routing and graph symmetry (DP0344803, S. Zhou, 2003-2005)
Professional Services
Editor-in-Chief, Congressus Numerantium
co-Editor-in-Chief, Australasian J. Combinatorics, 02/2018-03/2022
Editorial Board, Australasian J. Combinatorics
Editor, J. Algebraic Combinatorics (Springer),
Graphs and Combinatorics (Springer),
Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society (Springer), and
J. Interconnection Networks (World Scientific)
co-Guest Editor, Special Issue on Graph Theory and Its Applications (ICGTA2023), Discrete Appl. Math., to appear; Special Issue on Optimal Network Topologies, J. Interconnection Networks, 2017; Special Issue on Graph Theory, Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society, 2016
President, Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia (CMSA), 2017
Vice President, CMSA, 2014-2016
Council Member, CMSA, 2014-2018, 2020-2021
I have served on the organising or program committee for more than thirty conferences and workshops, including as Chair of the Organising Committee for the 43rd Australasian Combinatorics Conference (43ACC, Melbourne, 13-17/12/2021) and the 7th International Workshop on Optimal Network Topologies (IWONT 2016, Tsinghua-Sanya International Mathematics Forum, China, 11-15/07/16).
Discrete Structures and Algorithms
I coordinate the Discrete Structures and Algorithms seminar and reading group meeting with Charl J. Ras and Binzhou Xia. Everyone is welcome to subscribe to the announcements for these events. If you would like to give a presentation in our DSA seminar, you are welcome to contact me.
Contact
School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
E: sanming@unimelb.edu.au;
T: +61 3 8344 3453;
F: +61 3 8344 4599;
O: Room 150 Peter Hall Building