Diane DONOVAN: Extended Curriculum Vita
3/13/2012
Address: School of Mathematics and Physics, Queensland University,
Queensland, 4072, Australia
Phone: +61733651354
Fax(non-confidential): +61733651477
Email: dmd@maths.uq.edu.au
Website: www.maths.uq.edu.au/~dmd
NATIONALITY
Australian
ACADEMIC RECORD:
B.A. (La Trobe Uni, Aust) (1978)
Dip. Ed. (La Trobe Uni, Aust) (1978)
Hons. Mathematics (La Trobe Uni, Aust) (1982)
PhD. (The University of Queensland, Aust) (1987)
CURRENT/PAST POSITIONS
Associate Professor: The University of Queensland, 2003-Senior Lecturer: The University of Queensland, 1997--2002
Lecturer: The University of Queensland, 1993--1996
Postdoctoral Fellow: Queensland University of Technology, 1992--1993
Research Associate (part-time): The University of Queensland, 1987--1991
Expert Panelist: Queensland Core Skills Test, Board of Senior Secondary School Studies
Queensland, 1991
Mathematics Teacher: Kenmore High School, July 1984--June 1985
Mathematics Teacher: Darwin High School, 1979--1981
MEMBERSHIPS AND AWARDS
Postdoctoral Fellow: Information Security Research Centre, Queensland University of
Technology, 1992--1993
Promoting Women Fellowship: The University of Queensland, 2007, 2000
Scholarship: Commonwealth Teaching Service, 1975--1978
Foundation Fellow: The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications
Fellow: The Australian Mathematics Society
Life Member: Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia
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PROFESSIONAL ROLES
Director (Research): Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Computing, School of
Mathematics and Physics, UQ, 2008-Member of Research Committee: School of Mathematics and Physics, UQ, 2010-Postgraduate Coordinator: School of Mathematics and Physics, UQ, October 2011-January 2012
Postgraduate Coordinator: Discipline of Mathematics, UQ, January 2010-Director Internationalization: School of Physical Science, UQ, 2003--2009
Member: The University of Queensland Academic Board (formerly Professorial Board),
2001--2002
Chair: Accreditation Committee of the Australian Mathematical Society, 2003--2009
Member: Engineering Physical Sciences and Architecture Faculty Appointments and
Promotions Committee, UQ, 2000-2001 and 2003-2004
Director of First Year Studies: Department of Mathematics, UQ, 1996--2000
Assessor: The Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) Initiative, 2009, and for the
Discover Grant Scheme of the Australian Research Council, 2000--
UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING DUTIES
Coordination, preparation and delivery of, on average 2.5, mathematics courses per year
since 1993; courses are 3 hour per week, 13 weeks. Class sizes range from 10 to 500
students across the following topics.
First year: introductory mathematics, first and second calculus courses, linear
algebra, discrete mathematics
Second year: linear algebra, number theory, discrete mathematics
Third year: design theory, geometry, coding theory, cryptography, graph theory
Fourth year: combinatorial design theory
Average Teaching Evaluation: 4.35/5 across 15 courses over 10 years ranging from large
first year classes to small fourth year classes
Director of First Year Studies, Department of Mathematics, UQ, 1996--2000
GRADUATE SUPERVISION
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Current
PhD. Principal Supervisor: Trent Marbach, commenced Dec 2012
PhD. Principal Supervisor: Carly Bodkin, commenced July 2011
PhD. Principal Supervisor: Fatih Demirkale, commenced Dec 2009
Completed
PhD. Principal Supervisor: Thomas McCourt, awarded 2010
PhD. Principal Supervisor: Carlo Hamalainen, awarded 2007
Ph.D. Principal Supervisor: Nicholas Cavenagh, awarded 2003
Ph.D. Principal Supervisor: Richard Bean, awarded 2001
Ph.D. Principal Supervisor: Philip Hawkes, awarded 1999
Ph.D. Principal Supervisor: Adelle Howse, awarded 1998
Ph.D. Associate Supervisor (50%): Rebecca Gower, awarded 1997
Honours Thesis: Nicholas Beaton, awarded 2008
Honours Thesis: Matthew Smith, awarded 2008
Honours Thesis: Thomas Wong, awarded 2007
Honours Thesis: Thomas McCourt, awarded 2006
Honours Thesis: Nicole Smith, awarded 2006
Honours Thesis: Jane Kempler, awarded 2000
Honours Thesis: Benjamin Burton, awarded 1996
Honours Thesis: Stuart Lee, awarded 1995
Honours Thesis: Adelle Howse, awarded 1994
SIGNIFICANT INVITED ADDRESSES
Graphs, Codes, and Designs (GCD), CIMPA Research School, Thailand, May 2013 (both
speaker and member of the organising committee)
2nd Mile High Conference on Nonassociative Mathematics, Denver, June 2009
Network Tomography Meeting, Adelaide, May, 2007
International Conference on Discrete Mathematics, (ICDM 2006), Bangalore, India,
December 2006
The Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms, Uluru, 2006
The Winter Combinatorics Workshop, Open University, UK, 2006
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Workshop on Latin Trades, Charles University, Czech Rep, 2006
Discrete Mathematics Workshop, Bangkok, Thailand, 1999 and 2003
Special Session for Teachers, Australian and American Mathematical Societies Joint
Meeting, Melbourne, 1999
Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing,
Darwin 1999 and Perth 1992
BOARDS AND COMMITTEES
Member: the Australian Mathematics Society's Standing Committee on Education 2000-2012
Council Member: The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications 2007-08
Council Member: Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia 2003
Member: Queensland Board of Secondary School Studies Curriculum Review
subcommittee 2000--2008
Editorial Board: Ars Combinatoria 2003-Associate Editor: Australasian Journal of Combinatorics 1990-Co-editor: UQ's biennial newsletter, Infinity (URL www.maths.uq.edu.au/~infinity/).
RESEARCH FUNDING
Current Successful
Australian Research Council: 2010--2012, $155K, Choice experiments to improve predictive
power for policy makers, joint Principal Investigator with D J Street, Keywords: stated
preference choice experiments, orthogonal arrays, health economics, discrete choice
experiments, balanced incomplete block designs. Progress to date includes 2 papers
submitted, 2 papers in preparation, 2 PhD students working on the project, with results
achieved on techniques for performance comparison for efficient designs, new
constructions for symmetric D-optimal choice experiments, and new efficient algorithms
for isomorphism testing for structures such as OAs and Hadamard matrices.
Requested
Australian Research Council: 2013--15, $389K, A unifying theory for planar and near
planar functions for applications in classical and quantum cryptography, joint Principal
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Investigator with A Rao and K Hordadam, Keywords: near planar functions and their
equivalences, combinatorial structures, semifields.
Past Successful
Australian Learning and Teaching Council: 2009, $215K, A national discipline-specific
professional development programme for lecturers and tutors in Mathematical sciences, joint
Principal Investigator with L Wood, N Joshi, B Loch, W Bloom, M Bower, N Brown, J
Skalicky. Results include 3 publications and the completion of 12 modules for use in a
professional development program.
Australian Research Council: 2006--08, $252K, Security Applications of Combinatorial
Puzzles, joint Principal Investigator with A P Street, C Ramsay. Results include 14
publications appearing in the period 2007 to 2009.
Australian Research Council: 2004--07, $40K, The fundamental structure of
combinatorial configurations, joint Principal Investigator with E Billington. Results include
11 publications.
Australian Research Council: 2001--03, $197K+$250K industry funding, Modelling,
simulation and risk analysis in Australian energy markets, joint Principal Investigator with
H Thompson, K Burrage, A Howse. Results include 2 successful PhD completions.
Australian Research Council: 1999--01, $165K, Enhanced Computer Security, from Interrelations between Combinatorial Structures, joint Principal Investigator with A P Street, P
Adams. Results include 5 successful PhD completions and over 25 publications.
Australian Research Council: 1999, $19K, The spectrum of critical sets, Sole Principal
Investigator. Results include 5 publications.
Australian Research Council: 1990--92, $42K, The applications of techniques of universal
algebra to designs, joint Principal Investigator with S Williams, E Billington. Results
include 2 successful PhD completions and 10 publications.
University of Queensland ResTeach: 2006--2008, $60K, joint Principal Investigator with J
Lefevre. Results include 12 publications.
EPSA Faculty: 2008, $25K Getting real with MATLAB at UQ, joint Principal investigator
with P Isaac, J Grotowski, A Roberts, H Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H Thompson, V
Scharaschkin. Two training manuals developed and a number of modules for student use.
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The University of Queensland PVCA: 2007, $12K, A review of the international students
experience in the School of Physical Sciences, joint Principal Investigator with M
Waterhouse, J Lefevre, H Thompson, H Rubinsztein-Dunlop. Report written for the Pro
Vice Chancellor Academic.
Promoting Women's Fellowship: 2007, 2000 $11K and $8K, Sole Principal Investigator.
Results include 5 publications.
Research Development Grant: 2005, $59K, The application of Random Graph Theory to
Modelling the Thermodynamic and Physio-chemical Properties of molten Silicates, joint
Principal Investigator with E Jak, P Hayes, H Thompson. Results include 2 publications
and 2 technical reports.
New Staff Research Grant Scheme: 1994, $23K, A mathematical approach to problems in
information security, Sole Principal Investigator. Results include 5 publications
QUT: 1993, $14K, Secret sharing schemes; theory and applications, joint Principal
Investigator with E Dawson. Results include 3 publications.
Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute: 2006, $16K, joint Principal Investigator with J
Lefevre, C Hamalainen, T McCourt. Results include the staging of 4 successful workshops
at UQ.
ATERB: 1993, $4K, Secure and efficient key management systems, joint Principal
Investigator with E Dawson. Results include 1 publication.
REFEREES
Prof John Eccleston (Previous Head of School)
PO Box 4204,
St Lucia South,
Queensland, 4067,Australian
Email: majeccle@gmail.com or jae@maths.uq.edu.au
Prof Ales Drapal (Collaborator, direct knowledge of research)
Head katedra algebry
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MFF UK
Sokolovska 83
186 75 Praha 8
Czech Republic
Email: drapal@karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Prof Mirka Miller (knowledge of research and professional activities)
Director, GTA (Graph Theory and Applications) Research Group
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
The University of Newcastle
NSW 2308, AUSTRALIA
Email: mirka.miller@newcastle.edu.au
THREE RECENT SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS
1. Diane Donovan, James Lefevre and G H J van Rees, On the spectrum of critical sets in latin
squares of order 2n, Journal of Combinatorial Designs 16 (2008) 25--43.
2. D M Donovan, A Drapal, M J Grannell, T S Griggs and J G Lefevre, Quarter-regular
biembeddings of Latin squares, Discrete Mathematics 310 (2010), 692-699.
3. Diane M Donovan, Mike J Grannell, Terry S Griggs, James G. Lefevre and Tom McCourt,
Self-embeddings of cyclic and projective Steiner quasigroups, Journal of Combinatorial
Designs 19(1) (2011) 16-27.
ALL PUBLICATIONS
Books
1.
E J Billington, D M Donovan, B D Jones, S Oates-Williams, A P Street, Discrete Mathematics: Logic
and Structures, Longman Cheshire, Melbourne, 1990, 281+(x).
2.
E J Billington, D M Donovan, B D Jones, S Oates-Williams, A P Street, Discrete Mathematics: Logic
and Structures, (2nd ed) Longman Cheshire, Melbourne, 1993, 316+(x).
Book Chapters
3.
Diane Donovan, Abdollah Khodkar and Anne Penfold Street, On minimal defining sets in AG(d,3), in
Designs 2002: further combinatorial and constructive design theory (edited W.D. Wallis) Kluwer
Academic Press, Boston, 2003.
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4.
D M Donovan, E S Mahmoodian, C Ramsay and A P Street, Defining sets in combinatorics: a survey,
in Surveys in Combinatorics, 2003, Lecture Notes in Mathematics Series 307, Eds. C D Wensley,
Cambridge University Press (2003), 115-174.
Co-Editor Special Journal Issue
5.
D Donovan, C Iliopoulos, and M Miller (eds.) Selected papers from 13th Australasian Workshop on
Combinatorial Algorithms, Special Issue, Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics, Vol.8,
Number 4 (2003), 555.
Journal Articles
6.
Diane M. Donovan, James G. Lefevre, Thomas A. McCourt, Nicholas J. Cavenagh, Distinct
equilateral triangle dissections of convex regions, Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis
Carolinae, accepted to 2/12, to appear.
7.
Diane Donovan and Birgit Loch, Closing the feedback loop: Engaging students in large first year
mathematics test revision sessions using pen-enabled screens, International Journal of Mathematical
Education in Science and Technology, accepted to 2/12, to appear.
8.
Diane Donovan, James Lefevre, Mary Waterhouse and Emine Sule Yazici, Defining sets of full
designs with block size three, II Annals of Combinatorics, accepted to 10/11, to appear.
9.
D M Donovan and M J Grannell, On the number of designs with affine parameters, Designs, Codes
and Cryptography, accepted to 5/11, to appear, DOI:10.1007/s10623-011-9528-7.
10.
Diane M Donovan, James G Lefevre, Thomas A McCourt, Nicholas J Cavenagh and Abdollah
Khodkar, Identifying flaws in the security of critical sets in latin squares via triangulations,
Australasian Journal of Combinatorics 52 (2012) 243-268.
11.
Leigh N. Wood, Tori Vu, Matt Bower, Natalie Brown, Jane Skalicky, Diane Donovan, Birgit Loch,
Nalini Joshi and Walter Bloom, Professional development for teaching in higher education,
International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology 42(7) (2011) 997-1009
Special Issue: Volcanic Delta 2011: Rotorua, New Zealand, 27 November - 2 December 2011.
12.
EJ Billington, Diane Donovan, James Lefevre, C.C. Lindner and Thomas McCourt, The triangle
intersection problem for nested Steiner triple systems, Australasian Journal of Combinatorics 51
(2011) 221-233.
13.
D M Donovan and M J Grannell, Designs having the parameters of projective and affine space,
Designs, Codes and Cryptography 60 (2011) 225-240.
14.
Diane Donovan, James Lefevre, Mary Waterhouse and Emine Sule Yazizi, On defining sets of full
designs with block size three, Graphs and Combinatorics 25 (2009) no. 6, 825-839.
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15.
Diane M Donovan, Mike J Grannell, Terry S Griggs, James G. Lefevre and Tom McCourt, Selfembeddings of cyclic and projective Steiner quasigroups, Journal of Combinatorial Designs 19(1)
(2011) 16-27.
16.
Asha Rao, Diane Donovan and Joanne L Hall, Mutually orthogonal Latin squares and mutually
unbiased bases in dimensions of odd prime power MOLS and MUBs in odd prime power dimensions,
Cryptography and Communications 2(2) (2010) 221-231.
17.
D M Donovan, M J Grannell, T S Griggs and J G Lefevre, On parity vectors of Latin squares,
Graphs and Combinatorics 26(5) (2010) 673-684.
18.
D M Donovan, M J Grannell and T S Griggs, Third-regular biembeddings of Latin squares, Glasgow
Mathematical Journal 52(3) (2010) 497-503.
19.
D M Donovan, A Drapal, M J Grannell, T S Griggs and J G Lefevre, Quarter-regular biembeddings of
Latin squares, Discrete Mathematics 310 (2010), 692-699.
20.
J G Lefevre, D M Donovan, M J Grannell and T S Griggs, A constraint on the biembedding of Latin
squares, European Journal of Combinatorics 30(2) (2009) 380-386.
21.
James Lefevre, Diane Donovan and Ales Drapal, Permutation representation of 3- and 4homogeneous latin bitrades, Fundamenta Informaticae 84 (2008) 1-12.
22.
Nicholas J Cavenagh, Diane Donovan and Emine Sule Yazici, Minimal homogeneous Steiner 2-(v,3)
trades. Discrete Mathematics 308 (2008) no. 5-6, 741-752.
23.
Diane Donovan, James Lefevre and G H J van Rees, On the spectrum of critical sets in latin squares
of order 2n, Journal of Combinatorial Designs 16 (2008) 25-43.
24.
Diane Donovan, Elizabeth J Billington and Nicole Smith, Packing a complete graph of order 5 (mod 6)
with triangles: a new method, Bulletin of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications 53
(2008) 77-81.
25.
Nicholas J Cavenagh, Diane Donovan and Abdollah Khodkar, Minimal defining sets of 1factorizations of complete graphs, Utilitas Mathematica 76 (2008) 191-211.
26.
Nicholas J Cavenagh, Diane Donovan, Abdollah Khodkar and G H J van Rees, When is a partial latin
square uniquely completable, but not its completable product?, Discrete Mathematics (special issue in
honour of Jennifer Seberry, Eds. Arasu, Warwick de Launey, Dinesh Sarvate) 308 (2008) 2830-2843.
27.
James Lefevre, Nicholas J Cavenagh, Diane Donovan and Ales Drapal, Minimal and minimum size
latin bitrades of each genus, Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae 48 (2007) 1892003.
28.
Nicholas J Cavenagh, Diane Donovan and Abdollah Khodkar, On the spectrum of critical sets in back
circulant latin squares, Ars Combinatoria 82 (2007) 287-319.
29.
Nicholas J. Cavenagh, Diane Donovan and Emine Sule Yazici, Minimal homogeneous latin trades,
Discrete Mathematics 306 (2006) no. 17, 2047-2055.
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30.
Birgit Loch and Diane Donovan, Progressive Teaching of Mathematics with Tablet Technology, eJournal of Instructional Science and Technology (e-JIST) 9(2) (2006).
31.
Nicholas J Cavenagh, Diane Donovan and Ales Drapal, 3-homogeneous latin trades, Discrete
Mathematics 300(1-3) (2005) 57-70.
32.
Nicholas J Cavenagh, Diane Donovan and Ales Drapal, 4-homogeneous latin trades, Australasian
Journal of Combinatorics 32 (2005) 285-303.
33.
Nicholas J Cavenagh, Diane Donovan and Rebecca A.H. Gower, A new class of critical sets for direct
products of back circulant latin squares, Utilitas Mathematica 67 (2005) 285-300.
34.
Diane Donovan, Trevor Pickett and Richard Wilson, Visualising energy data, ANZIAM Journal
(electronic supplement), Proceedings of the 2004 International conference on Computational
Techniques and Applications, Melbourne, Australia, September 2004, (2005) C956-C97.
35.
Diane Donovan, Saad El-Zanati, Charles Vanden Eynden, and Somporn Sutinuntopas, Labelling of
unions of up to four uniform cycles, Australasian Journal of Combinatorics 29 (2004) 323-336.
36.
Diane Donovan and Abdollah Khodkar, Uniform critical sets in Latin squares, Journal of
Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing 48 (2004) 3-23.
37.
Diane Donovan, Chin Mei Fu and Abdollah Khodkar, An investigation of 2-critical sets in latin
squares, Ars Combinatoria 72 (2004) 223-234.
38.
Nicholas J Cavenagh, Carlo Hamalainen, Diane Donovan and Abdollah Khodkar, On Greedy Critical
Sets in Latin Squares, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial
Algorithms (AWOCA2004), Eds. Seok-Hee Hong, University of Sydney (2004) 1157-163.
39.
Nicholas J Cavenagh, Diane Donovan and Ales Drapal, Constructing and Deconstructing Latin
Trades, Discrete Mathematics 284 (2004) no. 1-3 97-105.
40.
Nicholas J. Cavenagh, Diane Donovan and G.H.J. van Rees, A note on the completion of partial latin
squares, Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics,
Graph Theory and Computing. Congressus Numerantium 168 (2004) 109-118.
41.
Diane Donovan and Abdollah Khodkar, Product constructions for critical sets in latin squares,
Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing 46 (2003) 227-254.
42.
Diane Donovan, Abdollah Khodkar and Anne Penfold Street, On doubling and tripling constructions
for defining sets in Steiner triple systems, Graphs and Combinatorics 19 (2003) no. 1, 65-89.
43.
Diane Donovan and E.S. Mahmoodian, An algorithm for writing latin interchanges as the sum of
intercalates, Bulletin of the Institute of Combinatorics and Its Applications 34 (2002) 90--98.
(Correction to a paper on critical sets: "An algorithm for writing any Latin interchange as a sum of
intercalates" Bulletin of the Institute of Combinatorics and Its Applications 37 (2003) 44).
44.
Diane Donovan, Rebecca A.H Gower and Abdollah Khodkar, Latin interchanges and direct products,
Ars Combinatoria 64 (2002) 271-287.
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45.
Diane Donovan, Abdollah Khodkar, Somporn Sutinuntopas and Siriwan Thappia, A note on critical
sets in Latin squares of order 2n-1, Congressus Numerantium 159 (2002) 215-219.
46.
Richard Bean, Diane Donovan, Abdollah Khodkar and Anne Penfold Street, Steiner trades that give
rise to completely decomposable latin interchanges, International Journal of Computing Mathematics
79 (2002), no. 12 1273-1284.
47.
Diane Donovan, The completion of partial latin squares, Australasian Journal of Combinatorics 22
(2000) 247-264.
48.
Richard Bean and Diane Donovan, Closing a gap in the spectrum of critical sets, Australasian
Journal of Combinatorics 22 (2000) 191-200.
49.
Diane Donovan and Adelle Howse, Towards the spectrum of critical sets, Australasian Journal of
Combinatorics 21 (2000) 107-130.
50.
Diane Donovan, Critical sets in Latin squares of order less than 11, Journal of Combinatorial
Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing 29 (1999) 223-240.
51.
Diane Donovan, Critical sets in families of Latin squares, Utilitas Mathematica 53 (1998) 3-16.
52.
Diane Donovan and Adelle Howse, Critical sets in latin squares of order 7, Journal of Combinatorial
Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing 28 (1998) 113-123.
53.
Diane Donovan, Sheila Oates--Williams and Cheryl E. Praeger, On the distance between distinct
group Latin squares, Journal of Combinatorial Design 5 (1997) 235-245.
54.
Diane Donovan, Adelle Howse and Peter Adams, A discussion of Latin interchanges, Journal of
Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing 23 (1997) 161-182.
55.
Diane Donovan and D.G. Hoffman, Critical sets in a family of groups, Australasian Journal of
Combinatorics 16 (1997) 21-28.
56.
Joan Cooper, Diane Donovan and Rebecca A.H. Gower, Critical sets in direct products of back
circulant Latin squares, Utilitas Mathematica 50 (1996) 127-162.
57.
Diane Donovan and Joan Cooper, Critical sets in back circulant Latin squares, Aequationes
Mathematics 52 (1996) 157-179.
58.
Ed Dawson, Diane Donovan and Alan Offer, Quasigroups, isotopisms and authentication schemes,
Australasian Journal of Combinatorics 13 (1996) 75-88.
59.
Diane Donovan, Joan Cooper, D J Nott and Jennifer Seberry, Latin squares: critical sets and their
lower bounds, Ars Combinatoria 39 (1995) 33-48.
60.
Joan Cooper, Diane Donovan and Jennifer Seberry, Secret sharing schemes arising from Latin
squares, Bulletin of the Institute of Combinatorics and Its Applications 12 (1994) 33-38.
61.
Ed Dawson and Diane Donovan, The breadth of Shamir's scheme, Computers & Security 13 (1994)
69-78.
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62.
Diane Donovan, Some interesting constructions for secret sharing schemes, Australasian Journal of
Combinatorics 9 (1994) 37-66.
63.
Diane Donovan and Alan Rahilly, The central spectrum of the order of a Steiner loop, Southeast Asian
Bulletin of Mathematics 16 (1992) 115-121.
64.
Rebecca A.H. Gower, Sheila Oates--Williams, Diane Donovan and Elizabeth J. Billington, The
quasigroup variety arising from a 2-perfect 6-cycle system of order 13, Journal of Combinatorial
Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing 10 (1991) 119-128.
65.
Joan Cooper, Diane Donovan and Jennifer Seberry, Latin squares and critical sets of minimal size,
Australasian Journal of Combinatorics 4 (1991) 113-120.
66.
Diane Donovan and Sheila Oates--Williams, Single laws for sloops and squags, Discrete
Mathematics 92 (1991) 79-83.
67.
Diane Donovan, Single laws for two subvarieties of squags, Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical
Society 42 (1990) 157-165.
68.
Diane Donovan, The centre of a sloop, Australasian Journal of Combinatorics 1 (1990) 83--90.
69.
Diane Donovan, Methods for constructing balanced ternary designs, Ars Combinatoria 26B (1988)
217-226.
70.
Diane Donovan, More balanced ternary designs with block size four, Journal of Statistical Planning
and Inference 17 (1987) 109-133.
71.
Diane Donovan, Balanced ternary designs with block size four, Ars Combinatoria 21A (1986) 81-88.
72.
Diane Donovan, A family of balanced ternary designs with block size four, Bulletin of the Australian
Mathematical Society 33 (1986) 321-327.
73.
Diane Donovan, Balanced ternary designs from 1-designs, Ars Combinatoria 19 (1985) 95-104.
74.
Diane Donovan, The quiddity of the isomorphism classes of some balanced ternary designs: including
some anomalies, Ars Combinatoria 17A (1984) 133-144.
Refereed Conference Proceedings
75.
Diane Donovan, Birgit Loch, H.B. Thompson and Jayne Thompson, Change detection through
clustering and spectral analysis, Proceedings of 18th International Workshop on Combinatorial
Algorithms, Editors Ljiljana Brankovic and Yuqing Lin, Lake Macquarie, Newcastle, 5-9 November
2007, 59-68.
76.
Diane Donovan, James Lefevre and Leonie Simpson, A discussion of constrained binary embeddings
with applications to cryptanalysis of irregularly clocked stream ciphers, Proceedings of International
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Conference on Discrete Mathematics (ICDM 2006), 75-87, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
India, 12/06.
77.
Igor Vladimirov, Diane Donovan, Bevan Thompson, Gibbs equilibrium in interacting particle systems
with coordination constrained bonding on Bethe lattices, Proceedings of the Seventeenth Australasian
Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (AWOCA2006), Eds. Ryan and Dafik, Uluru, July 16 -19,
2006, Ballarat University 110-122, ISBN 0-064-6463101.
78.
Nicholas J Cavenagh, Diane Donovan and Carlo Hamalainen, Are there three MOLS of order 10?,
Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (AWOCA2005),
Eds. J Ryan, P Manyem, K Sugeng, M Miller, Ballarat, Australia, September 18-21, 2005, 57--65.
ISBN 0-0646-45252-5.
79.
Nicholas J Cavenagh, Carlo Hamalainen, Diane Donovan and Abdollah Khodkar, On Greedy Critical
Sets in Latin Squares, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial
Algorithms (AWOCA2004) Eds. Seok-Hee Hong, University of Sydney (2004) 1157-163.
80.
Diane Donovan and Abdollah Khodkar, Premature Partial Latin Squares and Critical Sets,
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (AWOCA2002),
Eds. E.J. Billington, D. Donovan and A. Khodkar, The University of Queensland (2002) 119-129.
81.
Diane Donovan, Chin-Mei Fu and Abdollah Khodkar, A discussion of 2-critical sets in Abelian 2groups, Proceedings of the Twelfth Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms
(AWOCA2001), Eds. Edy Tri Baskoro, Institut Teknologi, Bandung Indonesia, 2001, 88-97.
82.
Diane Donovan, Interactive discrete mathematics, Proceedings of the Fourth Biennial International
Conference of the Engineering Mathematics and Applications Conference EMAC 2000, Eds. R.L.
May, G.F. Fitz-Gerald, I.H. Grundy, The Institute of Engineers, RMIT Melbourne, 2000, 131-133.
83.
Richard Bean, Diane Donovan, Abdollah Khodkar and Anne Penfold Street, Steiner trades that give
rise to completely decomposable latin interchanges, Proceedings of the Eleventh Australasian
Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (AWOCA 2000), Eds. L Brankovic and J Ryan, Newcastle
University, Newcastle Aust. (2000) 17-30.
84.
Michael Bulmer, Diane Donovan, Catherine Holmes and Bevan Thompson, Calculus Connection, A
Multimedia Adventure, Proceedings of the Third Biennial Australian Engineering Mathematics and
Applications Conference EMAC '98, The Institute of Engineers, Adelaide, 1998, 147-150.
85.
Diane Donovan, Michael Lucht, M. Rezny, H. Sidhu, and H.B. Thompson, Interactive Maple tutorials,
Australian Engineering Mathematics Conference `96 (AEMC96), Sydney, (1996), 499-503.
86.
Diane Donovan and Paulette Lieby, Completely separating systems of k-sets for Latin squares,
Proceeding of AWOCA `96, Magnetic Island (1996) 47-56.
87.
Diane Donovan, An update on Latin interchanges, Proceeding of AWOCA `96, Magnetic Island (1996)
30-38.
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Diane DONOVAN: Extended Curriculum Vita
88.
Diane Donovan, Key management systems and secret sharing schemes, Cryptography: Policy and
Algorithms Conference, Brisbane (1995) 369-380.
89.
Joan Cooper and Diane Donovan, Latin interchanges, Proceedings of Sixteenth Australasian
Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms, Darwin (1994) 29-35.
90.
Ed Dawson and Diane Donovan, Shamir's scheme says it all, Proceedings of Computer Security
IFIP/Sec '93, Ed. E. Graham Dougall, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., (1993) 91-102.
91.
E.P. Dawson, Diane Donovan and Alan Rahilly, Methods for sharing cryptographic keys,
Communications '92 (1992) 135-139.
Other Publications
92.
Diane Donovan, Carlo Hamalainen and Anne Penfold Street, Seeking Solutions to Sudoku Squares, Pi
in the Sky, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), 10 (2006) 7-9 &11-12, available at
http:www.pims.math.ca/pi/.
93.
Diane Donovan, Carlo Hamalainen and Anne Penfold Street, Exploring Sudoku Squares, Teaching
Mathematics, The Journal of the Queensland Association of Mathematics Teachers 31(2) (2006) 1426.
94.
Diane Donovan, Secretly sharing passwords, The Australian Mathematics Teacher, 53 (1997) 21-25.
95.
Diane Donovan, More applications of mathematics in information security, Queensland Association of
Mathematics Teachers' Conference, Gold Coast, September (1994) 21 (1996) 27-29.
96.
Diane Donovan, Applications of mathematics in information security, Queensland Association of
Mathematics Teachers' Conference, Gold Coast, September (1994), in Teaching Mathematics, 20
(1995) 21-25.
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