Dr Kathleen Quinn
Senior Lecturer In Discrete Mathematics
School of Mathematics & Statistics
Biography
Professional biography
I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics. I have a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Glasgow, and a PhD in Mathematics from the University of London. I joined the Open University in 1995.
Research interests
I have worked on design theory and cryptography.
Teaching interests
The current modules to which I have contributed are MU123 Discovering mathematics, MST124 Essential mathematics 1, MST125 Essential mathematics 2, M208 Pure mathematics and MST368 Graphs, games and designs.
I am the School subject lead for pure mathematics, and the module team chair of M208 Pure Mathematics.
Projects
Winter Combinatorcs Conference 2010 (XP-10-002-KQ)
Funding towards Winter Combinatorics Meeting 2010.
Publications
Journal Article
Smallest defining sets of directed triple systems (2009)
Existence and embeddings of partial Steiner triple systems of order ten with cubic leaves (2004)
More on exact bicoverings of 12 points (2003)
On exact bicoverings of 12 points (2000)
On directed designs with block size five (2000)
All admissible $3$-$(v, 4, \lambda)$ directed designs exist (2000)
Non-isomorphic solutions for some triple systems with bipoints (2000)
