Recent and current research students
Cohomology of Groups

Current students:

  • Sue Barnes (started January 2004, supervisor Peter Kropholler)
  • Martin Hamilton (started October 2004, supervisor Peter Kropholler)
  • Brian Matthews (started October 2002, supervisor Peter Kropholler)

The Modular Group

Recent students:

  • Robert Scarth (graduated 1998, supervisor Alec Mason) "Normal congruence subgroups of the Bianchi groups and related groups".

Geometric and combinatorial group theory

Recent students:

  • Abdul Ahmad (graduated 1998, supervisor Steve Pride) "The application of pictures to decision problems and relative presentations".
  • Sinan Cevic (graduated 1998, supervisor Steve Pride) "Minimality of group and monoid presentation".
  • David Cruickshank (graduated 2000, supervisor Steve Pride) "New invariants for groups".
  • Calum Kilgour (graduated 1998, supervisor Steve Pride) "Using pictures in combinatorial group and semigroup theory".
  • Boikanyo Makubate (graduated 1998, supervisor Steve Pride) "Word problems for groups and monoids". (M.Sc.)
  • Jing Wang (graduated 1999, supervisor Steve Pride) "Rewriting systems, finiteness conditions and second order Dehn functions of monoids".
  • Xiaofeng Wang (graduated 1996, supervisor Steve Pride) "Second order Dehn functions of groups and monoids".
  • Stuart McGlashan (graduated 2002, supervisor Steve Pride). "The geometry of rewriting systems".

Current students:


Module theory

Recent students:

  • Semra Dogruoz (graduated 1998, supervisor Patrick Smith) "Extending modules relative to module classes".
  • Catarina Gomes (graduated 1999, supervisor Patrick Smith) "Some generalisations of injectivity".
  • Will Loggie (graduated 1998, supervisor Patrick Smith) "Some special classes of modules".
  • Christian Lomp (graduated 1996, supervisor Patrick Smith) "On dual Goldie dimension".
  • Leandro Marin (graduated 1997, supervisor Patrick Smith)  "Categories of modules for idempotent rings and Morita equivalences". (M.Sc.)
  • Dilek Pusat (graduated 1997, supervisor Patrick Smith) "Prime submodules".

Current Students:

·          Alex Woodward (started October 2003, supervisor Patrick Smith)


Non-commutative noetherian rings and representation theory

Recent students:

  • Paula Carvalho (graduated 1998, supervisor Ken Brown) "On the prime spectra of some Noetherian rings".
  • Iain Gordon (graduated 1999, supervisor Ken Brown) "Representation theory of quantised function algebras at roots of unity".
  • Ji-Hyang Lee (graduated 2000, supervisor Ken Brown) "Properties of Noetherian P.I. Hopf algebras". (M.Sc.)
  • Martin O'Neill (graduated 2001, supervisor Ken Brown) "Deformations of U(sl(2))".

Current students:

  • Peter Thompson, supervisor Ken Brown. Thesis topic: "Interactions between generic quantum groups and quantium groups at roots of unity".
  • Katrin Gehles, (started October 2002, supervisors Ken Brown and Iain Gordon)
  • Maurizio Martino, (started October 2002, supervisors Ken Brown and Iain Gordon)
  • Kanokporn Changtong, (started April 2002, supervisor Ken Brown)
  • Richard Vale (started October 2003, supervisors Ken Brown and Iain Gordon)