Peter Dukes, University of Victoria

Research

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Latest funding

Fractional and Signed Relaxations of Balanced Combinatorial Structures
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$34,000
Combinatorial designs and their generalizations
NSERC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$144,000
Algebraic and analytical methods in design theroy
NSERC · 2010 · Principal investigator
$116,500

All 5 grants and awards

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Fractional and Signed Relaxations of Balanced Combinatorial Structures

Principal investigatorNSERC2024Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Dukes, Peter

Keywords: combinatorics; block designs; latin squares; error-correcting codes; quasirandomness; graph decompositions; hypergraphs; permutations; symmetric functions; matrix analysis

$34,000

Combinatorial designs and their generalizations

Principal investigatorNSERC2017Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Dukes, Peter

Keywords: association schemes; block designs; codes; combinatorics; graph decompositions; hypergraphs; linear algebra; linear spaces; orthogonal arrays; orthogonal polynomials

$144,000

Algebraic and analytical methods in design theroy

Principal investigatorNSERC2010Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Dukes, Peter

$116,500

Computational resources for mathematics & statistics

Co-investigatorNSERC2009Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Lesperance, Mary

$71,100

Investigation of the existence of combinatorial designs and codes with applications to communications and statistical design

Principal investigatorNSERC2005Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Dukes, Peter

$50,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Dukes, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your NSERC-funded project "Fractional and Signed Relaxations of Balanced Combinatorial Structures" (2024), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]