Recent talks (since 2020)

Invited conference talks

  1. Minisymposium on Combinatorial Designs and Algebraic Combinatorics, 31st British Combinatorial Conference, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK, July 2026

    Talk title: The Directed Oberwolfach Problem with Bipartite Factors

  2. Ontario Combinatorics Workshop, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, May 2026 (Plenary talk)

    Talk title: The Directed Oberwolfach Problem

  3. Session in Combinatorial Design Theory, CMS 2025 Winter Meeting, Toronto, Canada, December 2025

    Talk title: Cyclic circular external difference families

  4. Session in Design Theory, 10th Cracow Conference on Graph Theory, AGH University, Kraków, Poland, September 2025

    Talk title: Packing designs with large block size

  5. Minisymposium on Pursuit-Evasion Games on Graphs, CanaDAM 2025, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, May 2025

    Talk title: Burning Steiner triple systems

  6. Minisymposium on Combinatorial Designs and Graph Decompositions, CanaDAM 2025, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, May 2025

    Talk title: Packings with large block size

  7. Session in Design Theory and Graph Decompositions, CMS 2024 Winter Meeting, Quantlen Polytechnic University, Richmond, Canada, December 2024

    Talk title: Colourings of Kirkman triple systems

  8. Graph Searching in Canada Workshop, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, August 2024 (Plenary talk)

    Talk title: Deduction and constrained Searching

  9. Graph Searching in Canada Student Summer School, Halifax, Canada, August 2024

    Talk title: An introduction to graph Theory

  10. Session in Combinatorial Design Theory, CMS 2023 Winter Meeting, Montréal, Canada, December 2023

    Talk title: Equitable colourings of cycle systems

  11. Minisymposium on Combinatorial Designs and their Applications, 10th Slovenian Conference on Graph Theory, Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, June 2023

    Talk title: Equitably colourable cycle systems

  12. Minisymposium on Pursuit-Evasion Games in Graphs, CanaDAM 2023, Winnipeg, Canada, June 2023

    Talk title: Distance-restricted firefighting

  13. Ontario Combinatorics Workshop, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, May 2023 (Plenary talk)

    Talk title: Constructive methods for the Oberwolfach problem and its variants

  14. Graph Searching in Atlantic Canada Resarch Meeting, online, January 2023

    Talk title: The deduction number

  15. Session in Pursuit-Evasion Games on Graphs, CMS 2022 Winter Meeting, Toronto, Canada, December 2022

    Talk title: The deduction game

  16. Stinson66: New Advances in Designs, Codes and Cryptography, Toronto, Canada, June 2022

    Talk title: On the Hamilton-Waterloo problem

  17. Session in Graph Theory, CMS 2022 Summer Meeting, June 2022

    Talk title: Mutually orthogonal cycle systems

  18. Carleton Combinatorics Meeting, online, August 2021

    Talk title: The firebreak problem: Scientific aspects

  19. Minisymposium in Design Theory, 8th European Congress of Mathematics, hybrid, June 2021

    Talk title: Mutually orthogonal cycle systems

  20. Session in Designs and Codes, CMS 75th+1 Anniversary Summer Meeting, online, June 2021

    Talk title: Cyclic cycle systems of complete equipartite graphs

  21. Session in Combinatorial Designs, CMS 2020 Winter Meeting, online, December 2020

    Talk title: On the Oberwolfach problem for single-flip 2-factors via graceful labellings

Contributed conference talks

  1. Combinatorics 2026, Naples, Italy, May 2026

    Talk title: Colouring Kirkman triple systems

  2. 18th East Coast Combinatorics Conference, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, July 2025

    Talk title: Extending existential closure to hypergraphs

  3. 15th Nordic Combinatorial Conference, University of Reykjavík, Reykjavík, Iceland, June 2025

    Talk title: Existential closure in uniform hypergraphs

  4. Combinatorial Constructions Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, April 2024

    Talk title: Constructing solutions of the Hamilton-Waterloo Problem using row-sum matrices

  5. Rijeka Conference on Combinatorial Objects and their Applications, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia, July 2023

    Talk title: Burning Steiner triple systems

  6. Combinatorial Designs and Codes, online, July 2021

    Talk title: On the spouse-loving Oberwolfach Problem

Seminar talks

  1. Number Theory and Combinatorics Seminar, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada, April 2026

    Talk title: Equitable and semi-equitable colourings of designs

  2. Atlantic Graph Theory Seminar, online, March 2026

    Talk title: New results on colourings of combinatorial designs

  3. Atlantic Graph Theory Seminar, online, January 2022

    Talk title: Mutually orthogonal cycle systems

  4. Graph Searching Online Seminar, online, December 2021

    Talk title: The deduction game

  5. Atlantic Graph Theory Seminar, online, November 2020

    Talk title: Equitably colourable cycle decompositions

  6. Combinatorics Seminar, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada, March 2020

    Talk title: The Oberwolfach Problem: Variations on a theme