Combinatorial games are two player, perfect information games of no chance. In this talk, we will explore two impartial normal play games which are played on combinatorial designs. Necessary combinatorial game theory background will be provided. The goal of this talk is to highlight past and current research which combines aspects of both combinatorial game theory and design theory.

Bio: Melissa Huggan is currently an AARMS postdoctoral fellow at Mount Allison University. From 2019 to 2021 she held an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship position at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly known as Ryerson University). She received her Ph.D. in 2019 from Dalhousie University. Her research interests are in combinatorial game theory, graph theory, and pursuit-evasion games.