William Palmer

Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney.

Research Interests

I am a member of the Algebra research group.
My current principal research interests lie in the study of group designs
such as Generalized Hadamard matrices and Generalized Bhaskar Rao designs
in two and higher dimensions.

Research Publications

  1. W D Palmer, J Seberry (1988), Bhaskar Rao designs over small groups.
    Ars Combinatoria 26A, 125-148.
  2. W D Palmer(1990), Generalized Bhaskar Rao designs with two association classes.
    Australasian Journal of Combinatorics 1, 161-180.
  3. W D Palmer (1992A), A composition theorem for Generalized Bhaskar Rao designs.
    Australasian Journal of Combinatorics 6, 221-228.
  4. W D Palmer (1992B), Partial Generalized Bhaskar Rao designs over abelian groups.
    Australasian Journal of Combinatorics 6, 257-266.
  5. D Combe, W D Palmer, W R Unger (2001). Bhaskar Rao designs and the alternating group $A_4$.
    Australasian Journal of Combinatorics 24, 275-283.
  6. R J R Abel, D Combe, W D Palmer (2004), Bhaskar Rao designs and the groups of order $12$.
    Australasian Journal of Combinatorics 29, 301-308.
  7. R J R Abel, D Combe, W D Palmer (2004), Bhaskar Rao designs and dihedral groups .
    Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A 106, 145-157.
  8. R J R Abel, D Combe, W D Palmer (2004), GBRDs with $k=3$ over dicyclic groups
    and with $k=4$ over the elementary abelian groups EA($g$),
    AWOCA2004 Fifteenth Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms Proceedings, 109-120.
  9. D Combe, A M Nelson, W D Palmer (2004). Magic labellings of graphs over finite abelian groups .
    Australasian Journal of Combinatorics 29, 259-271.

Current Teaching

In 2006, I lecture and take tutorials for the units of study:
MATH1011 Life Sciences Calculus (in March Semester);
MATH2969 Discrete Maths and Graph Theory (Advanced) (in March Semester);
MATH2069 Discrete Maths and Graph Theory (in March Semester);
MATH1904 Discrete Mathematics (Advanced) (in July Semester).

For the two units MATH2069 and MATH2969, I am the lecturer for the graph theory section.

Address:

Dr W. D. Palmer
School of Mathematics and Statistics
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

Office: Room 525 Carslaw Building
Telephone:+61 2 9351 3048
Department Fax: +61 2 9351 4534

Email: billp@maths.usyd.edu.au

Last major change: 9 November, 2005.

Bill Palmer