University Computer Science

Walter Denis Wallis: Curriculum Vitae

Personal

Date and Place of Birth: 6-26-41, Sydney, Australia

Present Home Address: 713 W Elm, Carbondale, IL 62901

Present University Af liation: Professor, Department of Mathematics, Southern Illinois University,

Carbondale, IL 62901-4408, and Department of Computer Science, Southern Illinois University,

Carbondale, IL 62901-4511

Australian Citizen; US Citizen.

Of ce phone: +1-618-***-****

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fax: +1-618-***-****

Education

B.Sc. University of Sydney 1963

Ph.D. University of Sydney 1968

Professional Experience

Permanent Positions:

- 1985 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL Professor of Mathematics

- 1970 85 University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia, Lecturer in Mathematics (Promoted:

1971 - Senior Lecturer 1973 - Associate Professor)

- 1967 70 La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, Lecturer in Mathematics

Visiting Professorships (over one month)

9/72 12/72 University of Waterloo, Canada

l/73 3/73 University of Manitoba, Canada

4/73 5/73 University of Glasgow, Scotland

9/76 12/76 University of Surrey, England

l/77 3/77 University of Waterloo, Canada

l/78 6/78 University of Waterloo, Canada

9/84 2/85 Simon Fraser University, Canada

3/85 8/85 University of Waterloo, Canada

5/88 8/88 Curtin University of Technology, Australia

9/98 6/99 University of Newcastle, Australia

11/99 1/00 University of Newcastle, Australia

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Teaching Experience

Teaching Interests and Specialties: Pure and Applied Combinatorics, Combinatorial Designs, Graph

Theory, Cryptography, Introduction to Mathematics for Non-Technical Students

Students who have completed Master s Theses and Doctoral Dissertations under my direction:

M Math: J. Milas, G. Southern, P. Hogarth, T. Scott

MS: C. Lin, G. Zhang, J. Kekade, A. Ghebremichael, A. Fernandez, H. Anver

Ph D: I. Beaman, K. Heinrich, C. Lin, G. Zhang, D. Haile, D. Karayiannis, H. Ibrahim, A. Marr

Professional Service

Membership in Professional Associations:

- Institute for Combinatorics and Applications (Fellow)

- Australian Mathematical Society (Fellow)

- Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia

- American Mathematical Society

- Mathematical Association of America

Of ces Held and Honors Awarded in Professional Associations:

- Chairman, Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia, 1978 1979

- Founding Fellow and member of Council, Institute for Combinatorics and its Applications

- Vice-President, Institute for Combinatorics and its Applications, 1996-2002

- Secretary, Institute for Combinatorics and its Applications, 2002-

Editorial:

- Editor: The Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing

- Editor-at large, Marcel Dekker Inc.

- Editorial Board: Ars Combinatoria; SCIMA; Journal of Combinatorics, Information and

Systems Science; Australasian Journal of Combinatorics; International Journal of Mathematics

and Computer Science; Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics; Journal of Statistical Theory

and Practice

Invited Presentations at Professional meetings

Hour or longer invited lectures:

January 1972 Australian Mathematical Society Summer Research Institute, Sydney,

N.S.W., Graphs and Groups (lecture series)

June 1972 First Australian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics, Newcastle, N.S.W.,

Combinatorial Applications in Operations Research

March 1973 Fourth South-Eastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and

Computing, Boca Raton, FL, My favourite family of block designs

March 1980 Eleventh South-Eastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and

Computing, Baton Rouge, LA, Hadamard Equivalence

June 1983 NSERC Workshop on Latin Squares and Applications, Burnaby, BC,

Orthogonal Diagonal Latin Squares.

October 1983 Thirteenth Manitoba Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Computing,

Winnipeg, MB, Three orthogonal Latin squares

April 1987 Kansas Academy of Sciences, 119th Annual General Meeting, Wichita, KS,

Public-key cryptography

August 1988 International Conference on Combinatorial Designs and Applications, Tunxi,

China, One-factorizations of multigraphs

January 1991 Mathematical Association of America Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA,

Combinatorial Designs (minicourse, 4 hours)

November 1991 Institute of Mathematics and its Applications Workshop on Combinatorics

and Linear Algebra, Minneapolis, MN, Hadamard Matrices

February 1993 Twenty-fourth South-Eastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory

and Computing, Boca Raton, FL, Hadamard Matrices, 1893 1993 (2 hour lectures)

May 1993 International Conference on Designs, Codes and Finite Geometries, Shanghai,

China, Regular graph designs

October 1995 Clemson Mini-Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing,

Clemson SC, Some tournaments of block size 3

January 1996 Ramanujan Mathematical Society, Tiruchiapally, India, Tournaments for

Triads

August 1999 DREI, Dimacs, Rutgers University, NJ, Graph factorizations

July 2000 Com2MaC International Conference on Association Schemes, Designs and

Codes, Pohang University, Korea, Generalizations of Kirkman Triple Systems

July 2001 26th Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial

Computing, Curtin University, Perth, Magic Labellings

July 2001 12th Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms, Bandung, Indonesia,

Totally Magic Graphs

October 2001 15th Midwest Conference on Combinatorics, Cryptography and Computing,

Las Vegas, Totally Magic Graphs

December 2001 8th International Conference of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics,

Wollongong, Australia, Graph Labellings

July 2002 DIMACS Workshop on Graph Labelings, Newark, New Jersey, Magic

Labelings and Magic Graphs

May 2003 Conference in Honour of Brian Alspach, Vancouver, Canada, Magic Labellings

and Other Graph Labellings

September 2003 Workshop on Applications of Network Dynamics Research, DSTO,

Edinburgh, South Australia, Tournament Scoring as a Network Analysis Tool

November 2003 First International Workshop on Graph Labelings, Newcastle, Australia,

Totally Magic Graphs

March 2005 Workshop on Applications of Network Dynamics Research, DSTO, Edinburgh,

South Australia, Enterprise Graphs and Small Worlds

July 2005 Third International Workshop on Graph Labelings, Her lany, Slovakia, Totally

Magic Labellings and Injections

October 2005 19th Midwest Conference on Combinatorics, Cryptography and Computing,

Rochester, NY, Generalizations of Steiner Triple Systems

December 2005 30th Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and

Combinatorial Computing, University of Queensland, Latin Squares with and without

Orthogonal Mates

February 2007 International Conference on Graph Theory and Information Security,

Bandung, Indonesia, Enterprise Graphs and Small Worlds

June 2007 International Workshop on Combinatorics 2007, Yokohama/Kyoto, Japan,

Triple Arrays

Shorter invited talks:

April 1970 American Mathematical Society Symposium, Madison, WI, Direct Summands

in Representation Algebras

April 1970 New York Academy of Sciences Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics,

New York, NY, Extreme Tournaments

October 1978 New York Academy of Sciences, Second Conference on Combinatorial

Mathematics, New York, NY, Spouse-avoiding mixed doubles toumaments

July 1985 New York Academy of Sciences,Third Conference on Combinatorial

Mathematics, New York, NY, Not-too-bad factorizations of graphs

October 1987 American Mathematical Society Symposium, Lincoln, NE, Clique partitions

and nite geometries

November 1989 American Mathematical Society Symposium, Fayetteville, AR, Clique

partitions of split graphs

January 1991 American Mathematical Society Symposium, San Francisco, CA, Arcs in

Latin squares

November 1992 American Mathematical Society Symposium, Dayton, OH, A family of

resolvable regular graph designs

March 1995 American Mathematical Society, Orlando, FL, Solution to a tournament

problem

June 1995 R C Bose Memorial Conference, Fort Collins, CO, Kirkman s school projects

October 1998 Australian Mathematical Society, Sydney, Australia, Generalized Kirkman

Designs

April 2003 American Mathematical Society Special Session, Bloomington, IN, Totally

magic labellings

July 2003 ICIAM/Australian Mathematical Society, Sydney, Australia, Generalizations of

Kirkman Triple Systems

July 2003 DIMACS Workshop on Designs, Newark, New Jersey, Triple Arrays

March 2004 Thirty- fth South-Eastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and

Computing, Boca Raton, FL, Overfull Factorizations

June 2004 SIAM, Nashville, TN, Overfull Factorizations of Complete Graphs

January 2005 Symposium at American Mathematical Society Meeting, Atlanta, GA,

Excessive Factorizations of Class 2 Cubic Graphs

May 2005 American Mathematical Society, Lubbock, TX, Overfull Factorizations an

Update

January 2007 Mathematical Association of America, New Orleans, LA, One and One

Third Orthogonal Latin Squares

January 2008 Mathematical Association of America, San Diego, CA, Champions in

Graphs

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