And Hooray for
IWOCA --
International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms!
Originally the "Australasian" Workshop when we founded it in 1987 at
Curtin University in Western Australia,
made "International" in 2006,
the 2023 event will be held in
Ischia, Italy.
And finally, a big Hooray for the demise of Covid!
After a couple of years of reduced activity,
things got back to normal in 2023.
PhD student Holly Koponen
presented our research at the
Prague Stringology Conference
(PSC) in August.
Then in December
MSc (soon to be PhD) student
Amin Kashef
presented more of it to the COCOA conference in Hawaii.
Meanwhile, PhD student Hamed Hasibi
finished Part I of his doctoral programme in record time
and is currently investigating machine learning applications in computational biology.
By mid-2024 all three of these hard-working students should be
well-established in their PhD research.
I was recently appointed to the Editorial Board
of the Institute ot Combinatorics & Its Applications;
while I continue on the Board of Directors of both IWOCA and PSC.
Meanwhile, in 2024 I published five papers, including a
major survey of string covering,
while my h-index --
"the largest number h such h publications have at least h citations" -- rose
to 34.