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Dr Thomas Britz

Dr Thomas Britz

Senior Lecturer

Education

Science
School of Mathematics & Statistics

I am part of the at the here at ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ Sydney.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND SERVICE POSITIONS

Council Member of the (CMSA) (2024 – )
President of the (CMSA) (2021 – 2024)
Friend of the Australian Council of Heads of Mathematical Sciences (2021 – 2024)

Chief Editor of (2015 –)
Managing Editor for the (2011 – )
Area Editor for the (2014 – 2023)
Referee for 61 journals and 2 conference proceedings (> 175 reports)
Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews and Zentralblatt MATH (> 250 reviews)
Grant proposal assessor for ARC DP, NISDRG, FRP, Vidi (32 reports)
PhD Opponent/Assessor (2 times)

Co-organiser of the 42th Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ, December 2019Ìý(2018Ìý– 2019)
Co-organiser of the 36th Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ, December 2012 (2011 – 2012)
Organiser of Pure Departmental Seminar, School of Mathematics & Statistics, ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ (2010 – 2013)
Co-organiser of the Joint Colloquium, School of Mathematics and Statistics, ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ (2010 – 2013)

Chair of the Publicity Committee, MATH, ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ (2014 – 2018)
Chair of the School Standing Committee, MATH, ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ (2014 – 2015)
School liaison for the ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ MathSoc, MATH, ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ (2012 – 2018)
Manager of Web and Social Media, MATH, ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ (2017 – 2018)

Academic Mentor, ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ (2019Ìý– )
Academic Advisor, MATH, ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ (2010Ìý– )
First Responder, ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ (2018Ìý– )

Member of the Education Excellence Committee, Science Faculty, ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ (2018 –Ìý)
Member of the Hybrid Learning and Teaching Community of Practice, ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ (2023 – )
Member of ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ Student Wellbeing Community of Practice, ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ (2022 –Ìý)
Member of ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ Data Science Hub (uDASH), ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ (2021 – 2024)
Member of the Sustainability Committee, MATH, ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ (2020 – 2023)
Member of the Computing Committee, MATH, ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ (2018 – 2018)
Member of the Research Committee, MATH, ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ (2015 – 2017)
Pure Representative on the Postgraduate Committee, MATH, ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ (2013 – 2017)
Member of the Policy and Resources Committee, MATH, ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ (2014)
Lecturer's Representative for the School Standing Committee, ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ (2011 – 2018)

Member of the (2018 – )
Life member of the (CMSA)

I also enjoy a range of outreach activities, to promote mathematical thinking, learning and enjoyment.

Phone
9385 7115
Location
Room RC-5111, School of Mathematics and Statistics Anita B. Lawrence Centre ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ Sydney Sydney NSW 2052
  • Books | 2024
    Angell D; Britz T, 2024, Parabolic Problems: 60 Years of Mathematical Puzzles in Parabola, CRC Press,
  • Book Chapters | 2022
    Britz T; Cameron PJ, 2022, 'Codes', in Ellis-Monaghan JA; Moffatt I (ed.), Handbook of the Tutte Polynomial, Chapman & Hall/CRC, pp. 328 - 344,
    Book Chapters | 2001
    Britz T; Mainetti M; Pezzoli L, 2001, 'Some operations on the family of equivalence relations', in Crapo H; Senato D (ed.), Algebraic Combinatorics and Computer Science. A Tribute To Gian-Carlo Rota, Springer-Verlag Italia, Milan, pp. 445 - 460
  • Journal articles | 2026
    Britz T; Chakraborty HS; Miezaki T, 2026, 'Harmonic higher and extended weight enumerators', Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A, 217,
    Journal articles | 2025
    Britz T; Chng ZY; Wong KB, 2025, 'The Ramsey numbers for certain large trees of order n with maximum degree at most n − 6 versus the wheel of order nine', Discrete Mathematics, 348,
    Journal articles | 2025
    Britz T; Hu X; Islam A; Tang HC, 2025, 'Bounds on the Closeness Centrality of a Graph', Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society, 48,
    Journal articles | 2025
    Wang C; Abel RJR; Britz T; Bunjamin YA; Combe D, 2025, 'Group divisible designs with block size 4 and group sizes 4 and 10 and some other 4-GDDs', Discrete Mathematics, 348, pp. 114254,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Abel RJR; Britz T; Bunjamin YA; Combe D, 2024, 'Group divisible designs with block size 4 and group sizes 4 and 7', Journal of Combinatorial Designs, 32, pp. 328 - 346,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Abel RJR; Britz T; Bunjamin YA; Combe D, 2024, 'Group divisible designs with block size 4 and group sizes 4 and 7', Journal of Combinatorial Designs, 32, pp. 328 - 346,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Britz T; Chakraborty HS; Ishikawa R; Miezaki T; Tang HC, 2024, 'Harmonic Tutte polynomials of matroids II', Designs Codes and Cryptography, 92, pp. 1279 - 1297,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Britz T, 2024, 'Book review of Vector: A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation', Parabola, 60,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Chng ZY; Britz T; Tan TS; Wong KB, 2024, 'The Ramsey Numbers for Trees of Large Maximum Degree Versus the Wheel Graph W8', Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society, 47, pp. 134,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Li NZ; Britz T, 2024, 'ON THE SCALE-FREENESS OF RANDOM COLORED SUBSTITUTION NETWORKS', Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 152, pp. 1377 - 1389,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Abel RJR; Britz T; Bunjamin YA; Combe D; Feng T, 2023, 'Group divisible designs with block size 4 where the group sizes are congruent to 1 mod 3', Discrete Mathematics, 346, pp. 113277,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Gilmore N; Britz T; Maartensson E; Orbegoso-Jordan C; Schroder S; Malerba M, 2023, 'Continental-scale assessment of micro-pumped hydro energy storage using agricultural reservoirs', Applied Energy, 349, pp. 121715,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Abel RJR; Britz T; Bunjamin YA; Combe D, 2022, 'Group divisible designs with block size 4 and group sizes 2 and 5', Journal of Combinatorial Designs, 30, pp. 367 - 383,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Abel RJR; Britz T; Bunjamin YA; Combe D, 2022, 'Group divisible designs with block size 4 where the group sizes are congruent to 2 mod 3', Discrete Mathematics, 345, pp. 112740,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Britz T, 2022, 'The beauty of the Golden Ratio', Parabola, 58,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Britz T; Carey A; Gesztesy F; Nichols R; Sukochev F; Zanin D, 2020, 'The product formula for regularized Fredholm determinants', Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Series B, 8, pp. 42 - 51,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Britz T; Cavenagh NJ; Mammoliti A; Wanless IM, 2020, 'Mutually orthogonal binary frequency squares', Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 27, pp. 1 - 26,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Britz T; Co-author I, 2020, 'How to write a Parabola article', Parabola, 56,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Britz T; Mammoliti A; Shiromoto K, 2020, 'Wei-type duality theorems for rank metric codes', Designs Codes and Cryptography, 88, pp. 1503 - 1519,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Britz T, 2020, 'Fibonacci numbers: Brief history and counting problems', Parabola, 56,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Britz T, 2018, 'On the betweenness centrality of trees, forests and cycles', Sustainable Forestry, 1, pp. 1 - 5,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Mammoliti A; Britz T, 2018, 'On mubayi's conjecture and conditionally intersecting sets', SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 32, pp. 2361 - 2380,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Tran B; Straka P; Falster MO; Douglas KA; Britz T; Jorm LR, 2018, 'Overcoming the data drought: Exploring general practice in Australia by network analysis of big data', Medical Journal of Australia, 209, pp. 68 - 73,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Bright D; Greenhill C; Britz T; Ritter A; Morselli C, 2017, 'Criminal network vulnerabilities and adaptations', Global Crime, 18, pp. 424 - 441,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Britz T, 2017, 'Geoffrey Marnell: Mathematical Doodlings - Curiosities, Conjectures and Challenges', Parabola, 53,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Britz T; Shiromoto K, 2016, 'On the Covering Dimension of a Linear Code', IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 62, pp. 2694 - 2701,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Hunter DO; Britz T; Jones M; Letnic M, 2016, 'Reintroduction of Tasmanian devils to mainland Australia can restore top-down control in ecosystems where dingoes have been extirpated: A response to Baker et al. 2016 and Fancourt & Mooney 2016', Biological Conservation, 196, pp. 20 - 21,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Britz T; Cavenagh NJ; Sørensen HK, 2015, 'Maximal partial Latin cubes', Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 22,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Britz T; Shiromoto K; Westerbäck T, 2015, 'Demi-matroids from codes over finite Frobenius rings', Designs Codes and Cryptography, 75, pp. 97 - 107,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Hunter DO; Britz T; Jones M; Letnic MI, 2015, 'Reintroduction of Tasmanian devils to mainland Australia can restore top-down control in ecosystems where dingoes have been extirpated', Biological Conservation,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Britz T; Johnsen T; Martin J, 2014, 'Chains, demi-matroids, and profiles', IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 60, pp. 986 - 991,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Britz T; Mammoliti A; Sørensen HK, 2014, 'Proof by picture: A selection of nice picture proofs', Parabola, 3, pp. 5 - 15,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Chan TH; Grant A; Britz T, 2013, 'Quasi-uniform codes and their applications', IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 59, pp. 7915 - 7926,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Britz T; Johnsen T; Mayhew D; Shiromoto K,