• Supervision

  • Postdocs

    • Rommel Melgaço Barbosa (E-mail: rommel@acm.org). Ph.D. degree obtained at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)  in 1999 (http://rmbweb.com/).
      • October 2000 - March 2001
        Research program: Regular-stable and well-covered graphs.
      • October 2001 - March 2002
        Research program: Maximal stable sets with regularity constraints.
    • Tim Helge Hultberg (E-mail: thh@mat.ua.pt). Ph.D. degree obtained at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in 2001 (http://www.mat.ua.pt/thh/).
      • October 2002 - June 2003
        Research program: Computational methods for continuous optimization in graphs.
        Formulation of Linear Optimization Problems in C++ (FLOPC++).

       

  • Current PhD projects

    • Supervision of PhD students

      • Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta, Universidade da Beira Interior.
        • PhD thesis starting date: January 2007.
        • Research topic: The poset of regular graphs with spectral lower bound -2.
        • E-mail: nmsb@ubi.pt
      • Sofia Alexandra Marques Jorge Pinheiro, Universidade de Aveiro.
        • PhD thesis starting date: October 2006.
        • Research topic: Upper bounds on the order of k-regular induced subgraphs.
        • E-mail: sjorge@mat.ua.pt

       

    • Supervision of PhD students in collaboration

      • Maria de Fátima Moreira da Silva Pacheco, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança.
        • PhD thesis starting date: October 2006 (supervision in collaboration with Carlos Luz from Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal).
        • Research topic: Recognition of graphs with convex quadratic stability number.
        • E-mail: pacheco@ipb.pt
      • Maria Emília Resende Silva, Universidade de Aveiro.
        • PhD thesis starting date: October 2008 (supervision in collaboration with Jerzy Szymanski from University of Adam  Mickiewicz, Poznan, Poland).
        • Research topic: Graph polynomials and generalizations.
        • E-mail: maria.emilia@ua.pt
      • Inês Monteiro Barbedo de Magalhães
        • PhD thesis starting date: October 2008 (supervision in collaboration with Paula Rama from
          Mathematics Department of Aveiro University).
        • Research topic: Partially ordered sets and graphs: relations and properties.
        • E-mail: inesb@ipb.pt
      • Milica Andjelic, University of Belgrade, Serbia.
        • PhD thesis starting date: March 2008 (supervision in collaboration with Slobodan K. Simic from
          Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia).
        • Research topic: Relations between star complements and (k,t)-regular sets.
        • E-mail: milica@matf.bg.ac.yu

     

  • Former PhD students

    • Carlos Jorge da Silva Luz, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal.
      • PhD thesis started in October 1993 and completed in January 1997 at UA.
      • Dissertation title: A new upper bound on the independence number of a graph by quadratic programming.
      • E-mail: cluz@est.ips.pt
    • Luís António de Almeida Vieira, Universidade do Porto.
      • PhD thesis started in October 1998 and completed in January 2004 at UA.
      • Dissertation title: Self-concordant barriers and Jordan algebras in combinatorics.
      • E-mail: lvieira@fe.up.pt
    • Paula Cristina Roque da Silva Rama, Universidade de Aveiro.
      • PhD thesis started in October 2000 and completed in June 2005 at UA.
      • Dissertation title: Combinatorial and spectral properties of graphs with regularity constraints.
      • E-mail: prama@mat.ua.pt
    • Jorge Manuel Sá Esteves, Universidade de Aveiro.
      • PhD thesis started in October 1992 (suspended between 2000-2005) and completed in July 2006 at UA (supervision in cooperation with José Craveirinha from University of Coimbra).
      • Dissertation title: Equity and efficiency on the optimization of Erlang-B multidimensional systems.
      • E-mail: jesteves@mat.ua.pt

       

  • Former MSc students

    • Paula Cristina Roque da Silva Rama, Universidade de Aveiro.
      MSc completed in 1998, "Self-concordant barriers in convex programming".
    • Ilídia Maria Amaral Coelho, Instituto Politécnico da Guarda.
      MSc completed in 2000, "Matchings in graphs and applications".
    • Maria Helena Silva, Universidade de Aveiro.
      MSc completed in 2003, "analytical approaches to a combinatorial
      problem of images decoding".