Prof. Peter Lam

BA, Mathematics, University of Hong Kong

PhD, Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Canada

A mathematician and an accountant, Professor Peter Lam started his career as an accountant after obtaining his PhD in Mathematics in the University of British Columbia in Canada.  He had obtained his professional title as a certified Accountant and practiced public accounting in Canada for 15 years before becoming a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University, in 1989.

During his 16 years' stay with Hong Kong Baptist University, he had taught diversified subjects in Mathematics for all levels of university students.  In particular, he had taken up the sole responsibility of teaching actuarial subjects since 1991, which was eventually developed into the course "Life Insurance and Life Contingencies". Other subjects that he had also taught included Statistics, Operations Research, Simulation and Numerical Methods.   

His research interests are in Graph Theory, with particular interest in bandwidth problems; colourability and choosability problems; and graph labelling problems. He had over 65 papers publications in international refereed journals.  He had also won various Research Grants from the Hong Kong Government and Baptist University in the past years.     

Professor Lam joined UIC in February 2007 and will take up the teaching of mathematics and accounting subjects, as well as the development role of actuarial subjects.

Telephone: 0756-3620913
FAX: 0756-3620888
E-mail: cblam@uic.edu.hk
Room: E401
Postal address: UIC Building, United International College, Zhuhai Campus of Beijing Normal University, Jinfeng Road, Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai, China

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Research Interests

- Graph Theory and Combinatorics.

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Selected Publications (from a total of 68)

  1. W. C. Shiu, P. C. B. Lam and S. M. Lee, Edge-magic index set of square of paths, to appear in Utilitas.
  2. W. H. Chan, P. C. B. Lam and W. C. Shiu, Characterization of 3-regular Halin graphs with edge-face total chromatic number equal to four, to appear in Ars Combinatoria.
  3. T. X. Yao, P. C. B. Lam, W. S. Lin and G. F. Zhou, On time-relaxed broadcasting networks, Discrete Applied Math., 158, 1029-1034 (2010).
  4. W. S. Lin and P. C. B. Lam, Star Matching and Distance two labelling , Taiwanese J. of Math., 13, 1167-1179 (2009).
  5. Z. H. Chen, P. C. B. Lam and W. C. Shiu, Edge-face total chromatic numbers of Halin graphs , SIAM J. of Discrete Math., 23(3), 1646-1654, (2009).
  6. Z. H. Chen, P. C. B. Lam and W. C. Shiu, Collapsible Graphs and Reduction of Line Graphs , Discrete Mathematics, 309, 3173-3184 (2009).
  7. P. C. B. Lam, T. M. Wang, W. C. Shiu and G. H. Gu, Distance two labellings of unit interval graphs, Taiwanese J. of Math., 13(3), (2009).
  8. H. P. Zhang, P. C. B. Lam and W. C. Shiu, Resonance graphs and a binary coding for the 1-factor of benezenoid systems, SIAM Discrete Math., 22, 971-984 (2008).
  9. W. S. Lin and P. C. B. Lam, Distance two labelling and direct product of graphs, Discrete Math. , 308, 3805-3815 (2008).
  10. W. H. Chan, P. C. B. Lam and W. C. Shiu, Cyclic bandwidth with an edge added, Discrete Applied Math., 156, 131-137 (2008).
  11. P.C.B. Lam, W.S. Lin and J. Z. Wu, L (j, k)- and circular L (j, k)-labellings for the products of complete graphs, to appear in J. of Combinatorial Optimization (2007).

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