Christopher Parker 

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Christopher Parker  School of Mathematics The University of Birmingham Edgbaston  Birmingham B15 2TT  England. Room: 227 Tel: +44 121 414 6199  Fax: +44 121 414 3389  Email:c.w.parker@bham.ac.uk

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• Here is a list (which is now out of date) of the smallest known cubic graphs of a given girth.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.

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Editorial duties

Editor in Chief, Journal of Group Theory.

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Seminars  

• Here's the listing for the Pure Mathematics Seminar series please come along.

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Current Teaching Duties

Semester One: Mathematical Finance; Advanced Algebra: Modules for Principal Ideal Domains

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Research Students

I have three Ph.D. students

· Valentina Grazian (fusion systems of sectional rank 3)

· Athar Waraich (realizing fusion systems)

· Raul Moragues Moncho (fusion systems with an extraspecial subgroup of index p)

Past Research Students

· Eleanor Cassell (PhD). She is studying character degrees and conjugacy class lengths. Here is her thesis PhD Thesis.

· Luke Morgan (PhD). Graphs of valency 5. Here is his MPhil(Qual) and his Thesis PhD Thesis.

· Tom Brookfield (PhD). Generation in finite simple groups. PhD.

· Jason Semeraro (MPhil). He has studied fusion systems. Here's his MPhil.

· Kanchana Atapattu (MPhil). She worked on amalgams. Here is her work MPhil.

· 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 sporadic 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 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.

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Last updated 2016

c.w.parker@bham.ac.uk