Marcus Brazil's Links Page

Listed below are some of my favorite or most useful links.

Research Links

• Ant Colony Optimization. A good starting point for background and references in this area.

• The Steiner Tree Page. A good starting point for background and references in this area, but this site hasn't been updated for a long time.

• X-initiative homepage. Outlines the recent applications of octilinear routing to VLSI design.

• Travelling Salesman Problem. An excellent site on the Travelling Salesman Problem from the Mathematics department at Princeton University.

• Web of Science. A comprehensive database for keeping up with the latest published scientific literature.

• CiteSeer. A scientific literature digital library that includes the full text of all articles catalogued and many ways of finding cited or closely related articles.

General Links

• How to recognise a disfunctional university department. An insightful commentary by Stanley Fish of the Univeriversity of illinois, Chicago.

• AddALL Book Search and Price Comparison. A good first place to look for hard-to-find books that are still in print.

• White Pages Telephone Directory. The Australian telephone directory online.

• The Universal Currency Converter.

Personal Links

• Dorren Thomas. My colleague, mentor and frequent co-author.

• Nick Wormald. Another colleague and co-author.

• Martin Zachariasen. A fellow Steiner researcher.

• Jim MacGregor Smith. Another researcher in topological network design and Steiner trees.

• Carlo Carli. The state represenatative for Coburg.

• Brunswick, Victoria. Some background on the suburb of Merlbourne where I live.

• The Covington History. My partner and children are Covingtons, and this is a fantastic resource for helping trace their genealogy.