Doug Stinson's Home Page

I retired in 2019. From 2013 until my retirement, I was a University Professor at the University of Waterloo. I am currently a Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Professor in the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. I am also an Adjunct Research Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Carleton University.

I was awarded the 2022 Stanton Medal by the Institute of Combinatorics and Its Applications. I received the medal at CanaDAM in Winnipeg in June 2023. Stanton Medals honour significant lifetime contributions to promoting the discipline of combinatorics through advocacy, outreach, service, teaching and/or mentoring.

The Stinson66 Conference (New Advances in Designs, Codes and Cryptography) was held in June 2022 at the Fields Institute in Toronto. From the conference website: "This conference will celebrate Doug Stinson’s 66th birthday and highlight his contributions to the fields of designs, codes, cryptography, and their connections. The goal is to explore recent developments, open problems and conjectures in combinatorial design theory along with applications to related areas including codes, cryptography, networks, and algorithms."

I was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2011.

Here is my Google Scholar page and here is an up-to-date CV (May 21, 2024).

Recent Talks

  • Ontario Combinatorics Workshop, University of Ottawa, May 2023, plenary speaker.
  • 9th Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics Conference (CanaDAM 2023), Winnipeg, June 2023, invited speaker in the minisymposium on Design Theory and Coding Theory.
  • Selected Areas in Cryptography 2023 , Fredericton, NB, August 2023, I gave the Stafford Tavares Lecture, which is a one-hour invited talk.
  • CRM / UOttawa distinguished colloquium, November 22, 2023.
  • I was a co-organizer and speaker in the session on Combinatorial Design Theory at the CMS Winter 2023 Meeting in Montreal, which was held from Dec. 1-4, 2023.
  • 55th Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory & Computing, Florida Atlantic University, March 2024, plenary speaker.