Summer Research Assistants and Opportunities

I frequently hire summer research students to work on a variety of graph-theoretic or game-theoretic problems.  The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science usually releases a brochure summarizing summer research opportunities each fall and holds and information about various projects in November/December.  Though I usually hire 3rd or 4th students, I have on occasion hired 1st or 2nd year students.  Recent / current students and projects include: 

[20] D. Pearson (Summer 2023) Modelling Self-Disseminating Vaccines on Graphs

(co-supervised with M. Huggan, VIU)

[19] A. Porter (Summer 2021) Reconfiguration Domination Graphs 

(funded by NSERC USRA) 

[18] A. Porter (Summer 2020) Hyperopic Cops and Robbers 

(partially funded by the Maple League; co-supervised with S. Finbow, StFX and N. Clarke, Acadia) 

[17] J. Hughes (Summer 2019)  Cops and Robbers and Breadcrumbs

(funded by my PERS)

[16] M. MacPhee (Summer 2017)  Philanthropic Chip-Firing

(funded by PRCA award)

[15] S. Grogan (Summer 2017)  A Variant of Cops and Robbers

(funded by PRCA award)

[14] A. Moreira (Summer 2017)  An Eternal Edge-Domination Problem

(funded by my NSERC DDG and PERS)

[13] A. Angeli Ayello (Winter 2017) Dynamic Graph Problems

(funded by my NSERC DDG)

[12] Evan MacNeil (Winter/Spring 2016) Graph Searching and Cleaning

(funded by my NSERC DDG)

[11] A. Angeli Ayello (Summer 2016) Disjoint Dominating Sets in Graphs

(funded by my NSERC DDG)

[10] E. Bardeau (Summer 2015) A Variant of Graph Cleaning

(funded by my NSERC DG)

[9] G. Power (Summer 2015) Searching Cartesian Products

(funded by NSERC USRA)

[8] F. Lidbetter (Summer 2015) Potential: moving charges in a closed network 

(funded by NSERC USRA)

[7] A. Angeli Ayello (Summer 2015) Cleaning and Eviction on Graphs

(funded by my NSERC DG)

[6] A.Z. Delaney (Summer 2013) Eternal Domination on Grids

(funded by my NSERC DG)

[5] C. Madsen (Summer 2013) A Variant on the Firefighter Problem

(funded by my NSERC DG)

[4] A.Z. Delaney (Summer 2012) Eternal Domination in graphs

(funded by my NSERC DG) 

[3] R. Oulton (Summer 2012) Edge-Deletion: a new combinatorial game

(funded by my NSERC DG)

[2] J. Clements (Summer 2012) Seepage in Directed Acyclic Graphs: Categorical Products

(funded by my NSERC DG)

[1] S. Yarnell (Summer 2011) An Analysis of Intelligent Fire Problems in Graph Theory

(funded by Nova Scotia Power Research Scholarship)