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:
- Peter J Davidson (started October 2004, supervisor Steve Pride)
- Alex Olivares Acosta, supervisor Steve Pride. Thesis topic: "Algebraic
constructions over discrete structures". - Elton Pasku (started March 2003, supervisor Steve Pride)
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:
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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)