Associate Professor Bernard Mans

Research

• Editorial Board Member of the Journals:
  • Theory of Computing Systems (TOCS), Springer, since 2002.
  • Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science (DMTCS), section "Distributed Computing and Networking".
• Leader of the INRIA - Equipe Associee,
  "Routing in Intermittently Connected Wireless Networks" (see Competitive External Research Grants).
• HITACHI-INRIA Chair 2003 at INRIA in the Projet HiPERCOM, Inria-Rocquencourt, France
• Publications
• Competitive External Research Grants.
• Conferences of interest (& where I may be involved...):
  • PC member PWN 2009, Fifth IEEE PerCom Workshop on Pervasive Wireless Networking, Galveston, Texas March 9-13, 2009.
  • PC Chair of ACSC 2009, Thirty-Second Australasian Computer Science Conference, Jan 20-23, 2009, Wellington, NZ;
  • PC member of OPODIS 2008, 12th Internationnal Conference On Principles Of DIstributed Systems, December 15th-18th 2008, Luxor, Egypt.
  • PC member of ACM PE-WASUN 2008, Fifth ACM International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks, October 27 - 31, 2008, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (in conjunction with ACM/IEEE MSWiM 2008);
  • Steering Committee member of SIROCCO 2008 15th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, June 17-20, 2008, Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland;
  • PC co-Chair of ACSC 2008, Thirty-First Australasian Computer Science Conference, Jan 22-25, 2008, Wollongong, NSW, Australia;
  • PC member of ACM PE-WASUN 2007, Fourth ACM International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks, October 22-26, 2007, in Chania, Crete Island, Greece;
  • PC member of PODC 2007, 26th Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, August 12-15, 2007, Portland, Oregon, USA;
  • PC member of FUN 2007 Fourth International Conference on FUN WITH ALGORITHMS, June 3-6, 2007, Castiglioncello (LI), Tuscany, Italy;
• Foundation Member with Prof Igor Shparlinski of the Algorithms and Complexity research group in 1997, which is now the Centre for Advanced Computing: Algorithms and Cryptography at Macquarie University

Postgraduate Research Students

• Margaret Mitchell (formerly Margaret Wasko), PhD awarded, September 2005.
• Nirisha Shrestha, PhD awarded June 2007.
• Stephen Gilmour, PhD awarded Nov 2007.

University

• Head of Department (Jan 2008 - Jan 2011).
• Acting Head of Department (13 Dec 2004 to 22 July 2005).
• University Research Policy & Management Committee, Research Projects Panel, Co-opted member.
• Acting Chair, Research Committee, Division of ICS (1st September 2005 to 31st January 2006).
• Director of Research, Dept of Computing (2002-2008).
• Member, Research Committee, Division of ICS (since 2002).
• Member, Equal Opportunity Committee (since 1999).

Undergraduate Teaching

• COMP333 Algorithm Theory and Design
• COMP469 Algorithms for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
• COMP473 Advanced Algorithms