Contact information:
Room 412,
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 School of Mathematics and Statistics 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.
Current PhD Students:
- Neil Fullarton
- Charalampos Stylianakis
Former PhD Students:
Leah
Childers, Assistant Professor at Pittsburg State
University, PhD 2010 (Louisiana State University)
Teaching:
I am currently serving as Head of Level 2 Mathematics at
Glasgow. In 2012-13, I am teaching 3H Abstract
Algebra.
Other courses I have taught at Glasgow include Maths 1R
(Algebra), Maths 2D, 4H Discrete Mathematics, 4H Galois
Theory, and 5M Advanced Group Theory.
For information on previous teaching, click here.