Contact information:
Room 526,
School of Mathematics & Statistics,
University of Glasgow,
15 University Gardens,
Glasgow G12 8QW, UK.
tara dot brendle at glasgow dot ac dot uk
Phone: +44 (141) 330-6361
Fax: +44 (141) 330 4111
I am a Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. After receiving my Ph.D. from Columbia University in New York in 2002, I spent three years as a VIGRE Assistant Professor at Cornell University, followed by three years as an Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University. I also spent a semester as a fellow at MSRI (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute) in Berkeley, California, in 2007.
Research:
My work is in geometric group theory, an area that lies
in the intersection of algebra and low-dimensional
topology. I am
particularly interested in mapping class groups of
surfaces (including
braid groups) and their relationship to automorphism
groups of free
groups and arithmetic groups.
Teaching:
I am currently serving as Head of Level 2 Mathematics at
Glasgow and as Course Head for Maths 2D (Calculus and
Linear Algebra). In 2011-12, I am teaching 5M
Advanced Group Theory and 3H Abstract Algebra, in addition
to one section of Maths 2D.
Other courses I have taught at Glasgow include Maths 1R
(Algebra), 4H Discrete Mathematics, and 4H Galois Theory.
For information on previous teaching, click here.