Jared Howell, BSc (MUN), MSc (MUN), PhD (Victoria)
Associate Professor – Computational Mathematics
Phone: (709) 637-6284
Email: jahowell@grenfell.mun.ca
Office: AS3013
Research interests/expertise
Most of my research is in Combinatorial Design Theory and Graph Theory. Specifically, I am interested in Graph Searching, Graph Decompositions, Graph Algorithms, and Graph Labelling.
Teaching
I have taught many different courses at MUN in Mathematics and Computer Programming. I often teach Linear Algebra, Introduction to Combinatorics, Combinatorial Analysis, and Mathematics for Business.
Representative scholarly contributions
Recent Publications:
- K. Barnetson, A. Burgess, J. Enright, J. Howell, D. Pike, B. Ryan, The Firebreak Problem, Networks 77 (2021), 372-382.
- D. Dyer, J. Howell, Watchman’s walks of Steiner triple system block intersection graphs, Australasian Journal of Combinatorics 68 (2017), 23-34.
- D. Dyer, J. Howell, The multiplicity of watchman’s walks, Congressus Numerantium 226 (2016), 301-317.
- S. Fitzpatrick, J. Howell, M. Messinger, D. Pike, A deterministic version of the game of zombies and survivors on graphs, Discrete Applied Mathematics 2013 (2016), 1-12.
- P. Dukes, J. Howell, The Orthogonality Spectrum for Latin Squares of Different Orders, Graphs and Combinatorics 29 (2013), 1, 71-78.
- P. Dukes, J. Howell, Solution to the Intersection Problem for Latin Squares of Different Orders, Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing 80 (2012), 289-298.
To Appear:
- D. Dyer, J. Howell, B. Pittman, The watchman’s walk problem on directed graphs, Australasian Journal of Combintorics.
- D. Dyer, J. Howell, Bounds on watching and watching graph products, Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory.
Honours, graduate and post-graduate supervision
Graduate Students:
- Brittany Pittman – MSc Mathematics (2020)