Dr. Svenja Huntemann

Email: Svenja.Huntemann@MSVU.CA
Phone: 902-457-6537
Office: Evaristus 359

Research Areas:

Combinatorial game theory, pursuit-evasion games, combinatorics

Education:

PhD: 2018, Dalhousie, thesis: “The Class of Strong Placement Games: Complexes, Values, and Temperature”
MSc: 2013, Dalhousie, thesis: “Simplicial Complexes of Placement Games”
BSc: 2012, UNBSJ, thesis: “The Upper Bound of General Maximum Distance Separable Codes”

Employment History:

2023 – present: Assistant Professor, MSVU
2020 – 2023: Assistant Professor, Concordia University of Edmonton

Publications:

• Nancy E. Clarke, Danielle Cox, Melissa A. Huggan, Svenja Huntemann, and Trent Marbach. Time-delayed Cops and Robbers. Submitted.
• Kyle Burke, Silvia Heubach, Melissa A. Huggan, and Svenja Huntemann. Keeping Your Distance is Hard. To appear in: Games of No Chance 6. (Preprint)
• Svenja Huntemann and Lexi A. Nash. The Polynomial Profile of Distance Games on Paths and Cycles. Integers 22 #G4, 2022.
• Melissa A. Huggan, Svenja Huntemann, and Brett Stevens. The combinatorial game Nofil played on Steiner triple systems. Journal of Combinatorial Designs 30(1) 19-47, 2022.
• Svenja Huntemann and Neil A. McKay. Counting Domineering Positions. Journal of Integer Sequence 24 (2021) Article 21.4.8.
• Svenja Huntemann, Richard J. Nowakowski, and Carlos Pereira dos Santos. Bounding Game Temperature Using Confusion Intervals. Theoretical Computer Science, 855:43-60, 2021.
• Sara Faridi, Svenja Huntemann, and Richard J. Nowakowski. Simplicial Complexes are Game Complexes. Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 26(3) (2019) P3.34.
• Sara Faridi, Svenja Huntemann, and Richard J. Nowakowski. Games and Complexes II: Weight Games and Kruskal-Katona Type Bounds. In Urban Larsson, editor, Games of No Chance 5, vol. 70 of MSRI Publications, 305-319. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
• Sara Faridi, Svenja Huntemann, and Richard J. Nowakowski. Games and Complexes I: Transformation via Ideals. In Urban Larsson, editor, Games of No Chance 5, vol. 70 of MSRI Publications, 293-304. Cambridge University Press, 2019
• Tim L. Alderson and Svenja Huntemann. The Partition Weight Enumerator and Bounds on MDS codes. Atlantic Electronic Journal of Mathematics, 6:1-10, 2014.
• Svenja Huntemann and Richard J. Nowakowski. Doppelgänger Placement Games. Recreational Mathematics Magazine, 1:55-61, 2014.
• Tim L. Alderson and Svenja Huntemann. On Maximum Lee Distance Codes. Journal of Discrete Mathematics. Vol. 2013. Article ID 625912. doi:10.1155/2013/625912