Leadership, service etc.
WIMSIG and the CWM
I was Chair of WIMSIG from 1 February 2021 - 31 January 2023, and was Chair of the WIMSIG Conference 2024 which was held at the Sydney Mathematical Research Institute/University of Sydney on 1 - 2 October 2024. WIMSIG Conference 2024 celebrated the achievements of women, trans and gender diverse people in the mathematical sciences, with plenary speakers and special sessions spanning pure mathematics, applied mathematics, statistics and mathematics in industry.
I am a member of the Committee for Women in Mathematics (CWM) from 2023 - 2026. The CWM is a committee of the International Mathematical Union.
Recent conference organisation
I am Chair of the Scientific Committee of the World Meeting for Women in Mathematics (WM)^2, which will be a satellite meeting of the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians, to be held in July 2026 in Philadelphia, USA.
Together with Jane Gao, Mikhail Isaev, Anita Liebenau and Ian Wanless, I am co-organiser of the MATRIX workshop Combinatorics of McKay and Wormald which was held at MATRIX in June 2025.
I was Chair of the WIMSIG Conference 2024, which was held at the Sydney Mathematical Research Institute (SMRI) of the University of Sydney on 1 - 2 October 2024.
Anita Liebenau and I organised a special session on Combinatorics at AustMS2022 (the 66th annual meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society), held in person at UNSW Sydney on 6 - 9 December 2022.
I was a member of the Programme Committee of the 64th annual meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, which was held online on 8 - 11 December 2020, hosted by the University of New England.
I was the Director of 42ACCMCC, the 42nd Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, which was held at UNSW on 9 - 13 December 2019. I was also one of a group of people who organised CMSA Day, a one-day online event held on 11 December 2020, replacing the postponed meeting 43ACC.
I was one of the organisers of the inaugural WIMSIG Conference 2017, which was held at the University of South Australia on 24 - 26 September 2017. This was the first such conference of its kind in Australia, and attracted 190 participants. All research talks were given by women.
Editorial Duties
I am a member of the Editorial Board of Random Structures & Algorithms, The Australasian Journal of Combinatorics and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Special Matrices.
I was an Editor-in-Chief of the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics from October 2015 to October 2023. (Earlier, I was Managing Editor.)
Other committees
I joined the Scientific Committee of MATRIX in August 2024.
I am Chair of the Simon Marais Mathematics Competition Mathematical Advisory Committee (February 2025 - present). I joined this committee (previously called the Organising Commitee) in March 2020.
Membership of professional societies
I am a member of the Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia (CMSA). The CMSA organise the annual ACC conference series (Australasian Combinatorics Conference), which used to be called ACCMCC (Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing), usually held in December each year. Every 10 years ACC becomes ICC, an International Combinatorics Conference.
The CMSA publish the Australasian Journal of Combinatorics, which is a "Diamond Open Access" all-electronic journal (free for authors, free to read).
I am also a member of the Australian Mathematical Society and the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications.
School and University committees and roles
I am Head of the Department of Pure Mathematics.
I am a member of the Ally@UNSW Network.
Do The Maths
The School of Mathematics and Statistics runs an annual Do The Maths workshop. The 2024 workshop took place on Wednesday 5 June at UNSW (in person) and Friday 7 June (online).
The Do The Maths workshops are for young women in the final years of high school (Years 10, 11 and 12) who are interested in mathematics and would like to know more about where the study of mathematics and statistics can take them. Our workshop participants experience a packed program with guest speakers, information sessions, a campus tour and input from some current UNSW mathematics and statistics students.
Online Professional Development course for high school teachers:
Networks and Paths
I developed an online professional development course Networks and Paths for high school teachers, to cover the content on Networks and Paths, Year 12 Standard Mathematics Topic MS-N1. This course is open (you can start at any time) and can be used for unaccredited self-learning.
The four videos used in the course are also available on YouTube: