How do networks—from social media to disease spread—really work? A/Prof Anita Liebenau, a mathematician at UNSW, tackles these questions using extremal and probabilistic combinatorics. Her work closed a 30-year gap in counting d-regular graphs, reshaping how we model networks and epidemics.
In this video, explore the powerful role of pure mathematics in solving real-world problems—and how Anita’s breakthroughs are influencing science far beyond the chalkboard.
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