User:Acblue2/Anthony Bonato

Anthony Bonato is a Canadian mathematician and writer whose research interest is graph theory. He is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Ryerson University, where he was previously the department chair.

Education
Bonato earned his Bachelor with Honours in pure mathematics from McMaster University in 1993. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo in 1998, with a thesis titled "Colourings, Generics, and Free Amalgams."

Career
In 1999, Bonato became an assistant professor at Wilfred Laurier University, where he would eventually become the Graduate Program Director of the mathematics department from 2006 to 2008. In 2008, he became an associate professor at Ryerson University. From 2010 to 2013, he served as the Chair of the Department of Mathematics at Ryerson.

Bonato specializes in graph theory, and has published material on pursuit games on graphs, such as cops and robbers, as well as using graph theory to study the properties of real-world networks, such as the internet and social networks. Bonato, along with Jeannette Janssen and Elham Roshanbin, introduced the concept of graph burning as a way to model contagion in graphs.

Bonato has also used graph theory and network theory to examine topics including Donald Trump's use of Twitter and likely winners of Survivor.

Personal Life
Bonato is openly gay and has advocated for greater inclusion of LGBTQI2S individuals in the mathematics community.

Bonato has self-published fiction and since 2015, he has operated the blog The Intrepid Mathematician.

Selected Works

 * Bonato, A., Limitless Minds:  Interviews with Mathematicians, AMS Student Mathematical Library, 2018.
 * Bonato, A., P. Prałat, Graph Searching Games and Probabilistic Methods, Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, CRC Press, 2017.
 * Bonato, A, A Course on the Web Graph, AMS Graduate Studies in Mathematics Series and AARMS Monograph Series, 2008.
 * Bonato, A., J. Janssen, E. Roshanbin, Burning a graph as a model of social contagion, International Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web-Graph, 2014.