Ian Wanless
Ian Murray Wanless (born 7 December 1969 in Canberra, Australia) is a Professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His research area is combinatorics, principally Latin squares, graph theory and matrix permanents.
Wanless received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Australian National University in 1998. His thesis "Permanents, matchings and Latin rectangles" was supervised by Brendan McKay. He held a postdoctoral research position at Melbourne University (1998-9), before becoming a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford (1999-2003). He then had a research position at Australian National University (2003-4) before spending 2005 as a Senior Lecturer at Charles Darwin University. Since 2006 he had been at Monash University, where he was promoted to Professor in 2014.[1]
He has been awarded distinguished fellowships from the Australian Research Council including a QEII fellowship (2006-2010) and a Future Fellowship (2011-2014).[2] The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications awarded him its Kirkman Medal in 2002 and its Hall Medal in 2008.[3] The Australian Institute of Policy and Science awarded him a Victorian Young Tall Poppy Award in 2008.[3] The Australian Mathematical Society awarded him its medal in 2009.[3]
Wanless is a life member of the Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia (CMSA). He has served two terms as the CMSA's President (2007–09 and 2014).[4] He is an Editor in Chief of the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics[5] and is on the editorial board of a several other journals including the Journal of Combinatorial Designs.
Wanless represented Australia at the International Mathematical Olympiad in Cuba in 1987.[6]
Wanless is the coauthor (with Colbourn and Dinitz) of the chapter on Latin squares in the CRC Handbook of Combinatorial Designs[7] and the author of the chapter on matrix permanents in the CRC Handbook of Linear Algebra.[8]
Wanless has presented two historico-mathematical-comedic stories at Laborastory, one on his hero (Leonhard Euler) and one on his antihero (Eliyahu Rips).[9]
References
- ^ Monash University, Discrete Mathematics group. "Professor Wanless". Retrieved December 28, 2016.
- ^ Australian Research Council. "Summary of Successful Proposals for Future Fellowships for Funding Commencing in 2011" (PDF). Retrieved December 23, 2016.
- ^ a b c Australian Mathematical Society. "Winners of the AustMS medal for 2009" (PDF). Retrieved December 22, 2016.
- ^ Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia. "Minutes of Annual General Meetings". Retrieved December 28, 2016.
- ^ The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics. "Editorial Team". Retrieved December 23, 2016.
- ^ "Former IMO Olympians". Retrieved December 28, 2016.
- ^ C. Colbourn, J. Dinitz and I. Wanless (2007). "Latin squares". Handbook of Combinatorial Designs (2 ed.). Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|editors=ignored (|editor=suggested) (help) - ^ I. Wanless (2014). "Permanents". In L. Hogben (ed.). Handbook of Linear Algebra (2 ed.). Boca Raton: CRC Press.
- ^ "The Laborastory". Retrieved December 22, 2016.
