Christopher
Parker
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Christopher Parker Tel: +44 121 414 6199 |
Research
Interests
- Group Theory and Combinatorics.
- Here's a list of my publications/preprints.
- Here is a list (which is now out of date) of
the smallest
known cubic graphs of
a given girth. See also Gordon
Royle's page.
Seminars
- Here's the listing for the Pure
Mathematics Seminar series please come along.
Current
Teaching Duties
Semester One: Group Theory MSM3P08
Semester Two: Study Leave
Research
Students
I have three Ph.D. students
- Eleanor Cassell. She is studying character degrees and conjugacy class lengths.
- Luke Morgan. Graphs of valency 5. Here is his MPhil(Qual)
- Tom Brookfield. Generation in finite simple
groups.
Past Research Students
- Jason Semeraro (MPhil). He studied fusion systems. Here's his MPhil.
- Kanchana Atapattu (MPhil). She worked on amalgams.
- Sarah Astill(PhD). She has classified certain groups of local characteristic $3$. Here is her MPhil(Qual) and here is her PhD Thesis.
- Ahlam Fallatah (MPhil). She presented a dissertation on the structure of Coxeter groups.
- Rachel
Fowler(PhD). She has characterized the Thompson group as a completion
of a certain 3-local amalgam. Here's her
MPhil(Qual) thesis and here is her PhD
Thesis.
- Murray Clelland.(PhD) He has written a successful PhD on saturated fusion systems. Here's his MPhil (Qual) thesis and here is his PhD Thesis.
- Mayam Gomez-Cano (PhD). She has written a successful thesis on the isomorphism type of (Sym(3),Sym(5))-amalgams. Here is her PhD thesis. And here are some of her computer programs. They are written in MAGMA. Here they are.
- Paul
Morey (PhD). He has investigated critical distance $3$
amalgams. Here is his PhD
Thesis
- Sandra
Covello (PhD). She has written a successful thesis
on the structure of minimal parabolic subgroups in the symmetric
groups. In particular, for p >3, she has determined all the
soluble minimal parabolic subgroups of Sym(n) . Here is her PhD
Thesis.
- Sarah Astill. She has written a successful
report on group recognition. Here is her project.
- Rachel Abbott (MSci). She has written
a successful report on the ZJ-Theorem. Here is her project.
- Andrew Pattison (MSci). He has written a
successful report on the modular representation theory of the symmetric
groups.
- Ruth Chapman (MSci). She has studied graphs of
valency four which have large girth.
Prospective Ph.D. students
should follow this
link http://www.mat.bham.ac.uk/graduateschool/
History:
Summer School
in Udine,
Italy
August
23-September 3,
2004
Together
with Sergey
Shpectorov (Bowling Green State
University) I will be presenting a series of lectures
related to simple group recognition. See here.
LMS Meeting
May 2005
I was the organizer for the regional meeting of the London Mathematical
Society. The next meeting will be in Birmingham in May 2005.
The topic of
the workshop following the meeting will be
Fusion Systems, Representation Theory and Groups.
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Last updated February 2011