Contact information:
Room 429,
School of Mathematics & Statistics,
University of Glasgow,
University Place,
Glasgow G12 8QQ
United Kingdom
tara dot brendle at glasgow dot ac dot uk
Phone: +44 (141) 330-6361
I am a Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. I am an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the American Mathematical Society.
After receiving my Ph.D. from Columbia University in New York, I was a VIGRE Assistant Professor at Cornell University and later held a position as an Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University, before moving to Glasgow in 2008. I am also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and of University of Glasgow Recognising Excellence in Teaching (RET) scheme
Some Current/Recent Professional Activity:
- Co-Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Algebra, Geometry and Quantum Fields (AGQ), a joint
PhD training centre between Heriot-Watt University, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Glasgow.
- Past President and current Vice President of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society
- Chair of the Nominating Commitee of the London Mathematical Society (2022-26)
- Member of Mathematical Sciences Panel for REF 2021 for the consultation and the assessment phases
- Past President and current Vice President of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society
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:
- Philipp Bader (primary supervisor Vaibhav Gadre)
- Gabriel Corrigan (primary supervisor Rachael Boyd)
- Alicja Pietrzak (co-supervised with Jim Belk)
Former PhD Students:
- Aitor Azemar (second supervisor); PhD 2025
- Leah Childers; PhD 2010, Louisiana State University
- Neil Fullarton; PhD 2014.
- Riccardo Giannini (co-supervised with Vaibhav Gadre); PhD 2025
- Luke Jeffreys (primary supervisor Vaibhav
Gadre); PhD 2020.
- Tudur Lewis; PhD 2024
- Alan
Logan (also supervised by Stephen J. Pride) ; PhD
2014.
- Alan
McLeay; PhD 2018.
- Charalampos Stylianakis; PhD 2016.
Teaching:
Courses I have taught at Glasgow include Maths 1R (Algebra), Maths 2D, Maths 2P, 3H Algebra, 4H Algebraic and Geometric Topology, 4H Discrete Mathematics, 4H Galois Theory, 4H/5E Topics in Algebra, and 5M Advanced Group Theory.