Education 2010. PhD (Dottorato) in Mathematics and Computer Science for the processing and representation of information and knowledge, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy 2006. MSc (Laurea Magistrale) in Mathematics “cum laude”, Università del Salento, Italy 2004. BSc (Laurea Triennale) in Mathematics “cum laude”, Università del Salento, Italy Current Position 01.12.2021–present. Associate Professor – University of Brescia, Italy Previous Positions 07.07-07.09.2022. Visiting Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University (ex Ryerson University), Toronto, Canada 08.12.2021-10.01.2022. Visiting Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University (ex Ryerson University), Toronto, Canada 01.12.2018–30.11.2021. Tenure Track Researcher (RTDB) – University of Brescia, Italy 16.04.2018–30.11.2018. Researcher (RTDA) – University of Padova, Italy 01.12.2017–31.03.2018. Post-doctoral Research Fellow – Ryerson University, Toronto (ON) Canada 01.12.2015–30.11.2017. Marie-Curie Fellow (INdAM-Cofund) – Ryerson University, Toronto (ON) Canada & Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy 01.10.2015–30.11.2015. Post-doctoral Research Fellow (INDAM) – Ryerson University, Toronto (ON) Canada 01.09.2014–31.08.2015. Post-doctoral Research Fellow – Ryerson University, Toronto (ON) Canada 01.09.2013–31.08.2014. Post-doctoral Research Fellow – Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy 01.11.2010–31.10.2012. Post-doctoral Research Fellow – Sapienza, University of Rome 2008–2009. Visiting Scientist – McMaster University, Hamilton (ON) Canada. Supervisor Prof. Alex Rosa Habilitations and Awards - Kirkman Medal 2013 - for outstanding contributions to combinatorics and its applications - by the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications Conference/Session Organization 18–24.06.2023. Minisymposium on “Combinatorial Designs and their Applications” at the 10th Slovenian Conference on Graph Theory, Kranjska Gora, Slovenia 01–02.02.2018. “Discretaly – A workshop in Discrete Mathematics”, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy 12–15.06.2017. Two minisymposia “In honour of the work of Alex Rosa” at “CanaDAM 2017”, Ryerson University, Toronto (ON) Canada Research Projects and Associations 2019, 2023. Holder of funds for international research activities (“Fondi per attività a carattere internazionale 2019\_INTER\_DICATAM\_TRAETTA”) financed by the Ministry of University and Research 2020. Reviewer of a proposal for Post-Doc projects at University of Verona 2013–present. Member of the “Institute for Combinatorics and its Applications (ICA)” 2022-present. Member of the ICA Prize Canvassing Committee 2010–12. Project PRIN 2008, Disegni, grafi e i loro codici e gruppi (Designs, graphs and related codes and groups) - Coordinator: Prof. M. Gionfriddo 2009–present. Member of “Unione Matematica Italiana UMI (Italian Mathematical Union)” 2009–12,2014–present. Member of “Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica INDAM (Italian National Board for Higher Mathematics) - Gruppo Nazionale per le Strutture Algebriche, Geometriche e le loro Applicazioni (GNSAGA)” Research Interests Combinatorial design theory, (infinite) Graph decompositions, Difference Families, Regular Steiner triple systems, Automorphisms of combinatorial structures, Graph factorizations, packings and coverings, Graph labelings, and applications to DNA self-assembly, Heffter arrays and Graph embeddings, Combinatorial matrices Research Impact Papers published/accepted in refereed journals: 33 Papers submitted for publication in refereed journals: 1 Preprint: 5 Total citations: 238 (Scopus) H-index: 10 (Scopus) Publications Papers Published in Refereed Journals 1. T. Traetta. Some new results on 1-rotational 2-factorizations of the complete graph. Journal of Combinatorial Designs 18(2010), 237-247 2. G. Rinaldi, T. Traetta. Graph products and new solutions to Oberwolfach problems. Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 18(2011), P52 3. S. Bonvicini, M. Buratti, G. Rinaldi, T. Traetta. Some progress on the existence of 1-rotational Steiner Triple Systems. Designs, Codes and Cryptography 62(2012), 63-78 4. M. Buratti, T. Traetta. 2-starters, graceful labelings and a doubling construction for the Oberwolfach problem. Journal of Combinatorial Designs 20(2012), 483-503 5. T. Traetta, On a class of highly symmetric k-factorizations. Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 20(2013), P24 6. T. Traetta. A complete solution to the two-table Oberwolfach problems. Journal of Combinatorial Theory A 120(2013), 984-997 7. M. Buratti, G. Rinaldi, T. Traetta. Some results on 1-rotational Hamiltonian cycle systems. Journal of Combinatorial Designs 22(2014), 231–251 8. M. Buratti, S. Capparelli, F. Merola, G. Rinaldi, T. Traetta. A collection of results on Hamiltonian cycle systems with a nice automorphism group. Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics 40(2013), 245–252 9. R.A. Bailey, M. Buratti, G. Rinaldi, T. Traetta. On 2-pyramidal Hamiltonian cycle systems. Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society—Simon Stevin 21(2014), 747-758 10. M. Buratti, T. Traetta. The structure of 2-pyramidal 2-factorizations. Graphs and Combinatorics 31(2015), 523-53 11. M. Buratti, G.J. Lovegrove, T. Traetta. On the full automorphism group of a Hamiltonian cycle system of odd order. Graphs and Combinatorics 31(2015), 1855-1865 12. F. Merola, T. Traetta. Infinitely many cyclic solutions to the Hamilton–Waterloo problem with odd length cycles. Discrete Mathematics 339(2016), 2267-2283 13. P. Danziger, E. Mendelsohn, T. Traetta. On the existence of unparalleled even cycle systems. European Journal of Combinatorics 59(2017), 11-22 14. M. Buratti, G. Rinaldi, T. Traetta. 3-pyramidal Steiner triple systems. Ars Mathematica Contemporanea 13(2017), 95-106 15. M. Buratti, H. Cao, D. Dai, T. Traetta. A complete solution to the existence of (k,\lambda)-cycle frames of type g^u. Journal of Combinatorial Designs 25(2017), 197–230 16. A.C. Burgess, P. Danziger, T. Traetta. On the Hamilton-Waterloo Problem with odd orders. Journal of Combinatorial Designs 25 (2017), 258–287 17. A.C. Burgess, P. Danziger, T. Traetta. On the Hamilton-Waterloo problem with odd cycle lengths. Journal of Combinatorial Designs 26 (2018), 51–83 18. A.C. Burgess, P. Danziger, T. Traetta. On the Hamilton-Waterloo Problem with cycle lengths of distinct parities. Discrete Mathematics 341 (2018), 1636-1644 19. A.C. Burgess, P. Danziger, T. Traetta. The Hamilton-Waterloo Problem with even cycle lengths. Discrete Mathematics, 342 (2019), 2213–2222 20. A.C. Burgess, P. Danziger, T. Traetta. On the generalized Oberwolfach Problem. Ars Mathematica Contemporanea 17(2019), 67–78 21. A.C. Burgess, F. Merola, T. Traetta. Cyclic cycle systems of the complete multipartite graph. Journal of Combinatorial Designs, 28(2020), 224–260 22. M. Buratti, A. Pasotti, T. Traetta. A reduction of the spectrum problem for odd sun systems and the prime case. Journal of Combinatorial Designs 29(2021), 5–37 23. F. Salassa, G. Dragotto, T. Traetta, M. Buratti, F. Della Croce. Merging combinatorial design and optimization: The Oberwolfach problem. Australasian Journal of Combinatorics 79 (2021), 141–166 24. S. Bonvicini, M. Buratti, M. Garonzi, G. Rinaldi, T. Traetta. The first families of highly symmetric Kirkman Triple Systems whose orders fill a congruence class. Designs, Codes and Cryptography 89 (2021), 2725–2757 25. S. Costa, T. Traetta. Vertex-regular 1-factorizations in infinite graphs. Journal of Combinatorial Designs 30 (2022), 354-363 26. A.C. Burgess, P. Danziger, T. Traetta. On the Oberwolfach problem for single-flip 2-factors via graceful labelings. Journal of Combinatorial Theory A 189 (2022), 105–611 27. S. Costa, T. Traetta. Factorizing the Rado graph and infinite complete graphs, Ars Math. Contemp. (2023), doi:10.26493/1855-3974.2616.4a9 28. M. M. Ferrari, A. Pasotti, T. Traetta. On non-isomorphic biminimal pots realizing the cube, Bulletin of the ICA 98 (2023), 122-139 29. A. Burgess, P. Danziger, A. Pastine, T. Traetta. Constructing uniform 2-factorizations via row-sum matrices: solutions to the Hamilton-Waterloo problem, Journal of Combinatorial Theory A 201 (2024), 105803 30. L. Mella, T. Traetta. Constructing generalized Heffter arrays via near alternating sign matrices, accepted for publication in Journal of Combinatorial Theory A 205 (2024), 105873 31. P. Danziger, E. Mendelsohn, B. Stevens, T. Traetta, On the mini-symposium problem, accepted for publication in Ars Math. Contemp. (2023), doi:10.26493/1855-3974.2835.8f0 32. A. Burgess, P. Danziger, T. Traetta. A survey on constructive resolution methods for the Oberwolfach problem and its variants, Conference proceedings: New Advances in Designs, Codes and Cryptography Stinson66, (Toronto, Canada, June 13-17, 2022), Fields Institute Communications 33. T. Traetta. A constructive solution to the Oberwolfach problem with a large cycle, accepted for publication in Discrete Mathematics Papers Submitted for Publication in Refereed Journals 34. M. Abreu, J. B. Gauci, D. Mattiolo, G. Mazzuoccolo, F. Romaniello, C. Rubio-Montiel, T. Traetta. A sharp upper bound for the harmonious total chromatic number of graphs and multigraphs Conference Presentations Presentations as Plenary or Invited Speaker 02-04.02.2023. Invited speaker at the “International Conference on Recent Advances in Graph Theory and Allied Areas” (ICRAGAA23), Department of Mathematics, St. Aloysius College, Elthuruth, Thrissur, India. Talk title: Open problems in Graph Decompositions and new methods to approach them 13–14.09.2018. Plenary speaker at the workshop “Algebraic Graph Theory and Complex Networks - WAGTCN 2018”. University of Naples Federico II, Italy. Talk title: Parallel Classes in Cycle Decompositions 09–11.08.2018. Plenary speaker at the “Kliakhandler Conference - Graph Decompositions”. Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA. Talk title: Recent advances on 2-factorizations 05–09.03.2018. Plenary speaker at the Forty-Ninth Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing (2018). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA. Talk title: The golden jubilee of the Oberwolfach problem 10–16.09.2017. Invited speaker at “Finite Geometries 2017 – 5th Irsee Conference”. Irsee, Germany. Talk title: On f-pyramidal Steiner triple systems 19–25.06.2011. Invited speaker at “Finite Geometries 2011 - 3rd Irsee Conference”. Irsee, Germany. Talk title: Open problems on regular and 1-rotational Steiner triple systems Presentations as invited speaker at Minisymposia - Conference Sessions 02-05.06.2023. Invited speaker at the minisymposium on “Design Theory and Graph Decompositions” at the 2023 Canadian Mathematical Society Summer Meeting, Ottawa (ON), Canada. Talk title: Generalized Heffter arrays and near alternating sign matrices 20–26.06.2021. Invited speaker at the special session on Combinatorial Designs within the “8th European Congress of Mathematics (8ECM)”. Talk title: On the Oberwolfach Problem for single-flip 2-factors via graceful labelings 07–11.06.2021. Invited speaker at the special session on Graph Decompositions within the “CMS 75th+1 Anniversary Summer Meeting, Ottawa”. Talk title: Highly symmetric Kirkman triple systems 08–11.12.2017. Invited speaker at the special session on Design Theory within the “2017 CMS Winter Meeting”. Waterloo (ON) Canada. Talk title: Steiner triple systems with well-behaved automorphisms 06–09.01.2016. Invited speaker at “AMS Special Session on Combinatorial Design Theory” within the “2016 Joint Mathematics Meetings”. Seattle, WA, USA. Talk title: Cycle decompositions: resolvable or without parallel classes 07–12.09.2015. Invited speaker at a special session of “XX Congresso dell’Unione Matematica Italiana”. Siena, Italia. Talk title: Resolvability vs. absence of parallel classes 05–08.06.2015. Invited speaker at the special session on “Graphs, Designs and Hypergraphs” within the “2015 Canadian Mathematical Society Summer Meeting”. Charlottetown (PEI) Canada. Talk title: On the Hamilton-Waterloo problem for a class of Cayley graphs Contributed Conference Presentations 18–24.06.2023. Minisymposium on “Combinatorial Designs and their Applications” at the 10th Slovenian Conference on Graph Theory, Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. Talk title: Row-sum matrices over abelian and generalized dihedral groups 14-19.05.2023. Invited participant at the workshop “Extremal Graphs arising from Designs and Configurations” held at the Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS) in Banff, Alberta, Canada. 21-23.10.2022. 34th Midwestern Conference on Combinatorics and Combinatorial Computing (MCCCC34), Illinois State University (Normal, IL, USA). Talk title: A constructive solution to the Oberwolfach problem with a large cycle. 26-30.06.2022. Combinatorial Constructions Workshop, University of Zagreb Faculty of Science, Croatia. Talk title: Row-sum matrices. 30.05-03.06.2022. Combinatorics 2022, Mantova, Italy. Talk title: Infinite graph factorizations. 03.09.2019. XXI Congresso dell’Unione Matematica Italiana, Pavia, Italy. Talk title: Open problems on Steiner triple systems 23–29.06.2019. 9th Slovenian International Conference on Graph Theory, Bled, Slovenia. Talk title: Pyramidal Steiner and Kirkman triple systems 03–09.06.2018. Combinatorics 2018, Arco, Italy. Talk title: Factorizations with subsystem 21–24.06.2017. HyGraDe, Sant'Alessio Siculo, Italy. Talk title: On a generalization of complete mappings 12-15.06.2017. CanaDAM 2017, Toronto, Canada. Talk title: Reverse 2-factorizations via graceful labelings 25.05.2017. 9th Shanghai Conference on Combinatorics, Shanghai, China. Talk title: Recent advances on $2$-factorizations of the complete graph 06-10.03.2017. 48th Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory & Computing, USA. Talk title: On f-pyramidal Steiner Triple Systems 13-16.02.2017. 2017 Coast Combinatorics Conference (26th), Kailua-Kona, HI, USA. Talk title: On f-pyramidal Steiner Triple Systems 13–17.06.2016. 3rd Istanbul Design Theory, Graph Theory and Combinatorics Workshop, Turkey. Talk title: Even Cycle Systems Without Parallel Classes 29.05–04.06.2016. Combinatorics 2016, Maratea, Italy. Talk title: A complete solution to the existence of (k, λ)-cycle frames of type g^u 17–19.09.2015. Giornate di Geometria 2015, Caserta, Italy. Talk title: Resolvability vs. absence of parallel classes 21–27.06.2015. 8th Slovenian Conference on Graph Theory, Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. Talk title: On the Hamilton-Waterloo problem for a class of Cayley graphs 21–24.05.2015. Discrete Math Days and Ontario Combinatorics Workshop, Ottawa, Canada. Talk title: On the Hamilton-Waterloo problem for a class of Cayley graphs 16–19.06.2014. SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics, Minneapolis, USA. Talk title: Cycle decompositions with a certain degree of symmetry 01–06.06.2014. Combinatorics 2014, Gaeta, Italy. Talk title: On the full automorphism group of a Hamiltonian cycle system 17–21.05.2014. Japan Conference on Graph Theory and Combinatorics, Tokyo, Japan. Talk title: New results on 1-rotational Hamiltonian cycle systems 09–15.09.2012. Combinatorics 2012, Perugia, Italy. Talk title: A complete solution to the two-table Oberwolfach problem 13–14.02.2012. Giornate di Geometria, Vicenza, Italy. Talk title: A step forward in the complete solution of the two-table Oberwolfach problem 25.06–01.07.2011. 2nd Istanbul Design Theory, Graph Theory and Combinatorics Conference, Istanbul, Turkey. Talk title: 2-starters, graceful labelings and a doubling construction for the Oberwolfach problem 23–28.05.2011. Seventh Shanghai Conference on Combinatorics, Shanghai, China. Talk title: On k-factorizations of the complete graph 04.03.2011. Giornata di Geometria, Vicenza, Italy. Talk title: Sistemi di terne di Steiner 1-rotazionali 27.06–03.07.2010. Combinatorics 2010, Verbania, Italy. Talk title: New infinite solutions to the Oberwolfach Problem 22–28.06.2008. Combinatorics 2008, Costermano, Italy. Talk title: Some new results on 1-rotational 2-factorizations of the complete graph Seminar Presentations 19.10.2018. “Discrete Mathematics Seminars”, Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, Italy. Talk title: Differences of Bijections and Applications 07.04.2017. “Seminario di Combinatoria”, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy. Talk title: Decomposing the complete graph via generalized complete mappings 06.02.2017. “Discrete Mathematics Seminar - Graphs at Ryerson", Ryerson University (ON) Canada. Talk title: f-Pyramidal Steiner Triple Systems 18.01.2016. “Discrete Mathematics Seminar - Graphs at Ryerson", Ryerson University (ON) Canada. Talk title: Cycle systems and parallel classes 10.04.2015. “Ottawa-Carleton Discrete Mathematics Seminar”, Carleton University (ON) Canada. Talk title: Resolvable cycle decompositions and their symmetries 12.02.2015. “Discrete Mathematics Seminar”, York University (ON) Canada. Talk title: 2-Factorizations and their symmetries 03.11.2014. “Discrete Mathematics Seminar - Graphs at Ryerson", Ryerson University (ON) Canada. Talk title: Factorizations, graph labelings and symmetries 03.04.2014. “Seminari 2014”, Università “Federico II” di Napoli, Italy. Talk title: Cycle decompositions and symmetries 20.06.2013. “Seminario di Algebra e Geometria”, University Sapienza of Rome, Rome, Italy. Talk title: Cycle decompositions with a nice automorphism group 20.07.2011. “I Seminari del Dipartimento a.a. 2010 – 2011”, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy. Talk title: Metodi algebrici per la costruzione di disegni combinatorici con un alto grado di simmetria Teaching Activities 2022-23. PhD in Mathematics at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Course: New directions in Designs and Graphs (co-teacher, 12 hours out of 40 hours in total) 2021-22. PhD in Mathematics at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Course: Designs, Graphs and their Applications (co-teacher, 6 hours out of 40 hours in total) 2020-21. PhD in Information Engineering, University of Brescia, Italy. Course: Graph Labelings, Colorings And Their Applications (co-teacher, 8 hours out of 16 hours in total) 2020-21. Master di I livello “Matematica per l’accesso nei ruoli di docente della scuola secondaria classe A26”, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italia. Course: Matematica Discreta (co-titolare) 2019–present. Bachelor's Degrees in Management Engineering, University of Brescia, Italy. Course: Algebra and Geometry 2019–21. Bachelor's Degrees in Industrial Automation Engineering, University of Brescia, Italy. Course: Algebra and Geometry 2017–18. Lecturer – Bachelor's Degree in Engineering and Management, Faculty of Engineering, University of Padova, Italy. Course: Fondamenti di Algebra Lineare e Geometria (Linear Algebra and Geometry) 2017. Lecturer – Bachelor’s and Master Degree in Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy. Course: An Introduction to Orthogonal Arrays and their applications with Codes (12 hours, language: English) 2013–14. Lecturer – Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University Roma Tre, Rome, Italy. Course: Linear Algebra 2012–13. Lecturer – Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University Roma Tre, Rome, Italy. Course: Geometria (Linear Algebra and Geometry) 2011–12. Lecturer – Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University Roma Tre, Rome, Italy. Course: Geometria (Linear Algebra and Geometry) 2011–12. Lecturer – Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University Roma Tre, Rome, Italy. Course: Geometria e Combinatoria (Linear Algebra and Discrete Mathematics) 2010–11. Teaching Assistant – Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University Roma Tre, Rome, Italy. Course: Geometria 2010–11. Teaching Assistant – Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University Roma Tre, Rome, Italy. Course: Geometria 2010–11. Teaching Assistant – Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University Roma Tre, Rome, Italy. Course: Geometria e Combinatoria 2007–08. Teaching Assistant – Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Faculty of Science, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy. 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