Michael Payne

Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Richard Berry Building, Room 203
University of Melbourne
Parkville, VIC 3010
Tel +61 3 8344 7671
Email m.payne3 "arroba" pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

I am a PhD student under the supervision of David Wood. My thesis will be in the area of geometric graph theory.
Together with David Wood, Helmut Alt and Jens Schmidt I was awarded a Go8/DAAD Joint Research Co-Operation Scheme grant for 2011/2012.
I did 'Phase I' at the Berlin Mathematical School. There I was a member of Günter M. Ziegler's Discrete Geometry group at TU Berlin (since relocated to FU Berlin).
I did my undergraduate studies in Australia at Monash University.
Research interests: discrete geometry, geometric graph theory...
Conferences I have attended: 35ACCMCC (Monash), EGC2011 (Alcalá de Henares), AMSSC2011 (Monash), 34ACCMCC (ANU), Geometric Graph Theory (EPFL), Bernoulli Conference on DCG (EPFL), ICM2010 (Hyderabad), VMSSC1 (Melbourne), VAC27 (Melbourne), 33ACCMCC (Newcastle).

On the connectivity of visibility graphs, with Attila Pór, Pavel Valtr and David R. Wood, arXiv preprint (2011).
Unit distance graphs with ambiguous chromatic number, Electron. J. Combin. 16 (2009), no. 1, Note 31, 7 pp.
A dense distance 1 excluding set in R³, with D. Coulson, Austral. Math. Soc. Gaz. 34 (2007), no. 2, 97-102.
Bachelors Thesis: Unit distance colouring problems. Includes material from above paper and literature review.
An essay: Quantum computing algorithms. This is a basic introduction to the most important algorithms.