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Amarra, Maria Carmen

Associate Professor
RoomMath Building 248

Research Interests
Algebraic combinatorics. Graph theory.
Academic Groups
  • Education
    • Ph.D. Mathematics (2013)
      The University of Western Australia

      Dissertation: Symmetric graphs of diameter two
      Adviser: Cheryl E. Praeger and Michael Giudici

    • M.S. Mathematics (2006)
      University of the Philippines Diliman

      Thesis: \((1-u)\)-constacyclic codes over \(\mathbb{F}_{p^k} + u \mathbb{F}_{p^k}\)
      Adviser: Fidel R. Nemenzo

    • B.S. Mathematics (2002), cum laude
      University of the Philippines Diliman
  • Publications
    • Quotient-complete arc-transitive latin square graphs from groups, Graphs and Combinatorics (2018) 34: 1651—1669.
    • On the girth and diameter of generalized Johnson graphs (with L. Agong, J.S. Caughman, A.J. Herman, and T.S. Terada), Discrete Mathematics 341 (2018), 138—142.
    • Affine primitive symmetric graphs with diameter two (with M. Giudici and C.E. Praeger), Ars Mathematica Contemporanea Vol. 13 No. 1 (2017), 137—165.
    • Quotient-complete arc-transitive graphs (with M. Giudici and C.E. Praeger), European Journal of Combinatorics 33 (2012), 1857 – 1881.
    • Symmetric diameter two graphs with affine-type vertex-quasiprimitive automorphism group (with M. Giudici and C.E. Praeger), Designs, Codes and Cryptography Special Issue on Finite Geometries, 68 (2013), 127 – 139.
    • On \((1-u)\)-cyclic codes over \(\mathbb{F}_{p^k} + u \mathbb{F}_{p^k}\) (with F. Nemenzo), Applied Mathematics Letters 21 (2008), 1129 — 1133.