Earlier this year, I presented the first results of what would become my master’s thesis at the International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms. The paper, coauthored with Jing Huang and Xuding Zhu, has now been published in the LNCS proceedings. It studies the computational complexity of the following problem: in a given graph, is there a matching which breaks all cycles of a given length?

I am grateful to NSERC for funding this research with a Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship.