5-year Personal Research Fellowship from the Royal Society of Edinburgh awarded

Kitty Meeks has been awarded a 5-year Personal Research Fellowship from the Royal Society of Edinburgh to purse a project entitled "Exploiting Realistic Graph Structure". The idea is to find new mathematical ways to represent structural properties of real-world network datasets (including Scottish livestock contact networks, the compatibility network between participants in the UK's National Living Donor Kidney Sharing Scheme, and the network formed from applications in various centralised job allocation schemes), and to use these "realistic" graph structures to design more efficient algorithms for the applications. Kitty said:

“The project will involve collaboration with various experts in the applications (specifically from the School of Computing Science, and the University of Stirling) but I also look forward to discussing various aspects of the problem with members of this School in the coming months.”