Dr. Melissa Huggan awarded the 2022 Kirkman Medal of the ICA
For immediate release Contact:
Sarah Holliday
March 9, 2023 Secretary
of the ICA
Email: sarah.holliday@gmail.com
url: the-ica.org
Dr. Melissa
Huggan awarded the 2022 Kirkman Medal of the ICA
Kirkman Medals recognize
excellent research by Fellows or Associate Fellows of the ICA early in their
research career, as evidenced by an excellent
body of published research.
Melissa Huggan is an
intelligent, broadly talented, internationally well-connected, young mathematician. She is a leading light in combinatorial game
theory and has forged and strengthened connections between it and economic game
theory and other branches of combinatorics including graph theory and design theory. She has published her research since her
undergraduate degree in mathematics and has twenty published articles in
refereed journals. In her PhD research
she began developing a theory of combinatorial games that include economic
properties: simultaneous play and scoring. At the same time, she made
significant contributions to standard CGT including tests for determining when
a game is a number, complexity analyses and reduced canonical form. In her
post-doctoral research, Dr. Huggan included Pursuit-Evasion games in her
research program. Throughout her research she has developed a particular
expertise of the mathematics of games and combinatorial designs, solving
tic-tac-toe on triple systems, solving in special cases and determining the
complexity of an independent set game on designs and graphs and extending
pursuit-evasion games to designs. Additionally, she is a leader in her
profession, distinguishing herself in organizing conferences, mathematical
outreach and teaching excellence.
The
Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications is an international scholarly
society that was founded in 1990 by Ralph Stanton; the ICA was established for
the purpose of promoting the development of combinatorics and of encouraging
publications and conferences in combinatorics and its applications.
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