Tomas Nilson
Universitetslektor|Senior Lecturer
- Professional title: Senior Lecturer
- Academic title: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- Other title: Retired
- Email: tomas.nilson@miun.se
- Room number: F309
- Location: Sundsvall
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- Employed at the subject:
- Mathematics
Area of interest
Discrete mathematics with emphasis on design theory. Applications include, among other areas, experimental design.
"It may not be a coincidence that the two systems in the universe that most impress us with their open-ended complex design –life and mind – are based on discrete combinatorial systems".
Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct, Penguin, London, 1994.
Research
Ongoing projects are aimed primarily at proving existence, finding construction methods and investigating properties for different types of row-column designs. As for future goals, a proof of Agrawal’s conjecture for the optimal designs called triple arrays is high on the list. This problem has been open for more than 50 years, but recently we got a partial result when we managed to prove the existence of an infinite family.