Benjamin Burton
Software Development and Research Consulting

I am a half-mathematician, half-computer scientist based in Brisbane, Australia. I have worked in computational geometry, information security, financial mathematics, and gifted-and-talented education.

I do software development and research consulting as a sole trader (ABN: 52987060341). For further details, you can contact me at bab@benburton.org.

Some of the projects I am currently involved in:

• International Olympiad in Informatics

  I am currently serving as President of the The International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), the premier competition for programing and algorithm design for secondary school students. I spent 10 years as a delegation leader and coach of the Australian team, and since 2008 I have been working behind the scenes with the different committees that oversee the IOI.

  IOI 2024 will be in Alexandria, Egypt this September, and in 2013 we hosted IOI 2013 in Brisbane, Australia!

• National Mathematics Summer School

  The National Mathematics Summer School (NMSS) gives talented and enthusiastic secondary students a taste of research, and a feel for what doing mathematics is really like. I was involved as a tutor and lecturer for ~25 years, and served as Director of NMSS between 2018–2020.

• Software Development

  I have a number of iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch apps, including:

  • References, to browse through your BibTeX databases;
  • Modular Arithmetic, to do arithmetic modulo N;
  • PDF Projector, to project your PDF slideshows onto an external screen;
  • Talk Timer, to discreetly track time while you give a talk;
  • Inkpad Libre, which is the open-source continuation of Steve Sprang’s excellent vector graphics app for the iPad.

• Research Consulting

  I help various organisations with scientific research consulting. If you are interested in talking further about this, please contact me at bab@benburton.org.

I also work as a mathematician at The University of Queensland. For more on my academic work, see:

• My university website at UQ;
• Regina, a large body of software for computational topology that I have been working on for over 20 years now.