Extracts from CV of D. R. Woodall

1.   Personal

Name: Douglas Robert Woodall

Born: November 1943 in Stoke-on-Trent, England

Nationality: British

2.   University education

B.A., Cambridge, 1965 (Mathematics)

Part III Mathematical Tripos, Cambridge, 1966

M.A., Cambridge, 1969 (automatic)

Ph.D., Nottingham, 1969, "Some results in combinatorial mathematics"

3.   Appointments held

1969–1972

Science Research Council Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Mathematics, University of Nottingham

1972–1978

Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Nottingham

1978–2006

Reader in Pure Mathematics, University of Nottingham

2006–2007

Associate Professor and Reader in Pure Mathematics, University of Nottingham

4.   Successful Ph.D. students

P. J. Wilde, Ph.D. 1980, "Some results in matroid theory"

M. R. Hart, Ph.D. 1993, "Degree bounds for graphs in surfaces"

J. F. Preen, Ph.D. 1994, "Structure theorems for graphs"

J. D. Lamb, Ph.D. 1994, "Theory of bond graphs" (jointly supervised with G. M. Asher)

C. D. Wakelin, Ph.D. 1995, "Chromatic polynomials"

B. J. Tarlow, Ph.D. 1998, "2-colourings and other combinatorial problems"

A. M. Robertshaw, Ph.D. 2000, "Neighbourhood conditions for factors in graphs"

T. R. Poole, Ph.D. 2004, "Factors in bipartite and other graphs"

R. J. Waters, Ph.D. 2005, "Graph colouring and frequency assignment"

T. J. Hetherington, Ph.D. 2007, "List-colourings of near-outerplanar graphs"

A. R. Philpotts, Ph.D. 2008, "Matchings, factors and cycles in graphs"

5.   Research record

• Invited speaker at the following meetings:

  The Western Michigan Graph Theory Conference (Kalamazoo, May 1976)

  The 29th British Mathematical Colloquium (Edinburgh, March 1977)

  The 6th British Combinatorial Conference (Royal Holloway College, July 1977)

  The British Association (Aston, September 1977)

  The London Mathematical Society (London, November 1979)

  The Edinburgh Mathematical Society (Edinburgh, February 1981)

  The Cambridge Combinatorial Conference for P. Erdös's 75th birthday (Cambridge, March 1988)

  The 16th Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing (Massey University, December 1990)

  The INTAS Meeting on Graph Colouring Problems (Novosibirsk, August 1999)

  The 18th British Combinatorial Conference (the Nash-Williams Memorial Lecture; Brighton, July 2001)

  The Edinburgh Mathematical Society (Stirling, April 2004)

• Elected a Foundation Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications (Winnipeg, Canada), 26 August 1990; Council member, 2004–2008
• Founder member of the British Combinatorial Committee (1972–1977)
• Founding Editor of the British Combinatorial Information Sheet (now the British Combinatorial Bulletin) (1972–1975)
• Mathematical Consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary (1970–1979)
• Gave expert advice to the Royal Statistical Society (1984) and London Mathematical Society (1996–2000) regarding the form of the Single Transferable Vote to be used in Council elections.
• External Examiner for Open University Course TM 361 (Graphs, Networks and Design) (1985–1990)
• Member of Editorial Board of Discrete Mathematics (1979–2012)
• Member of Editorial Board of Journal of Graph Theory (1989–2018)
• Guest Editor of the special volumes of Discrete Mathematics devoted to papers presented at the 13th–19th British Combinatorial Conferences, 1991–2003.

6.   University service

• Course Director, Single Honours Mathematics, responsible for Undergraduate Student Handbook (2002–2007)
• Member of the School's Student/Staff Consultative Committee (2002–2007)
• Member of University Publications Committee (1982–1988)
• Member of Senate (1983–1986)
• Member of Board for Postgraduate Studies (1991–1994)
• Member of Undergraduate Assessment Committee for Science (1993–2002)
• Responsible for all internal departmental undergraduate course literature (1973–1993)
• Previous service on the Mathematics Department's Course Structure Committee, Mathematics Teaching Committee, Staff-Student Consultative Committee, Undergraduate Affairs Committee, and the Mathematical Physics Board; also the School of Mathematical Sciences' Teaching Quality Assurance Committee, Teaching Assurance Committee (later Quality Management Committee), Examinations Working Party (later Assessment and Progression Committee), and Undergraduate Affairs Committee
• Chairman of the Department's Subsidiary Courses Committee (1989–1994)
• Member of the Department's undergraduate admissions interviewing panel (1989–1999)
• Departmental/School examinations officer (1990–2002), including responsibility for software and for processing and printing examination marks (1990–2000)
• From 1978 I was responsible for maintaining the Unix text-formatting and mathematical typesetting programs in use in the Mathematics Department, which formed the main typesetting system used by the University Print Unit (1983–1993) and by the secretaries in the Mathematics Department (1985–1995).