Marston Donald Edward Conder (born 9 September 1955) is a New Zealand mathematician, a distinguished professor of mathematics at Auckland University,Staff directory listing entry, Auckland U. Mathematics, retrieved 22 January 2013. and the former co-director of the New Zealand Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. His main research interests are in combinatorial group theory, graph theory, and their connections with each other.
Education and career Conder was born in Hamilton, New Zealand, and studied at Matamata College.Centrefold: Marston Conder , NZMS Newsletter 70, August 1997, retrieved 22 January 2013. He earned a master's degree in social science from Waikato University in 1977, and a doctorate from Oxford University in 1980 under the supervision of Graham Higman.RSNZ member profile, retrieved 22 January 2013. He served as president of the New Zealand Mathematical Society from 1993 to 1995, and as president of the Academy of the Royal Society of New Zealand from 2006 to 2008. In 2011 he was selected as the inaugural Maclaurin Lecturer, as part of a reciprocal exchange between the New Zealand Mathematical Society and the American Mathematical Society.Mathematician receives joint NZ-US honour , Voxy.co.nz, 1 September 2011, retrieved 22 January 2013.
Recognition Conder is a fellow of the New Zealand Mathematical Society and of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, and in 2012 became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 21 January 2013. He was named a distinguished alumnus of Waikato University for 2013.University of Waikato celebrates Distinguished Alumni for 2013, retrieved 7 December 2016. In 2011 he was awarded a James Cook Research Fellowship for research on symmetry of discrete structures.
In March 2021 it was announced that Conder has been awarded the 2020 Euler Medal by the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications for his "many distinguished contributions to combinatorics over the last 40 years."
In 2014 the Royal Society Te Apārangi awarded Conder the Hector Medal, and in 2018 the Jones Medal, named after Vaughan Jones, "for his internationally renowned research on symmetry and chirality in discrete structures, and his exemplary leadership and service in the New Zealand mathematical sciences community". In the 2020 Birthday Honours, he was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for services to mathematics.
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