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Research Interests

Preprints and papers

2-day meeting held on Aug 2nd, 3rd 2007

1-day meeting November 29th 2008

EPSRC research grant 'Homogeneous structures, bipartite graphs, and partial orders'

EPSRC research grant 'Homogeneous structures, homomorphism-homogeneity, and automorphsim groups'

Current teaching,

MATH1022 'Introductory group theory'

MATH2210 'Introduction to discrete mathematics'

MATH3232 'Transformation geometry'


Details
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pmtjkt@leeds.ac.uk
(0113) 343 5128
Pure Mathematics
Mathematical Logic


Former Research Students:

Edmund Burke, 1987-1990, PhD 1991, 'Unification and equation solving in nilpotent groups and monoids'. Professor of computer science in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology at the University of Nottingham, and leader of the Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning research group.

Richard Warren, 1989-1992, PhD 1992, 'The structure of k-CS-transitive cycle-free partial orders'. Teacher at Ampleforth College.

Philip Creed, 1990-1993, PhD 1994, 'On o-amorphous sets and quasi-amorphous sets'. Works for Top Level Computing, Stroud.

Graham Mendick, 1993-1997, PhD 1997, 'Notions of Dedekind-finiteness in model theory'. Works for Xansa.

Helen Billinge, 1993-1997 (changed to philosophy in 1994 to work with Steven French), PhD 1998, 'A defence of constructive mathematics'. Lecturer at St Andrews University, 1996-1997, Junior research fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford, 1997-1999, British Academy postdoctoral fellow, King's College, London, and Christ Church, Oxford 1999-2002. Lecturer in philosophy at the London School of Economics, 2002- Now working as a school teacher.

Gabriela Campero-Arena, 1998-2002, PhD 2002, 'Transitivity properties of countable coloured linear orderings'. Lecturer at UNAM, Mexico City.

Debbie Sawyer, 1998-2002, PhD 2003, 'Classification and first-order properties of one-dimensional discrete dynamical systems'. Works on operational research for the government (scientific civil service)

Katie Chicot 2000-2004, PhD 2004, 'Transitivity properties of countable trees'. Clothworkers' Fellow in Mathematics for the Royal Institution, London, 2004-5. Staff tutor, Open University from 2005.

Susana Torrezao de Sousa 2000-2004, PhD 2005. 'Countable homogeneous coloured partial orders'. Working for Deloitte in London from Sept 2005.

Agatha Walczak-Typke 2001-2005, PhD 2005, 'Dedekind-finite structures', Postdoctoral fellow in Vienna.

Tristan Jenkinson 2002-2006, PhD 2006, 'The construction and classification of homogeneous structures in model theory', Works for Macrovision in Maidenhead.

Stephen Lovell 2002-2006, PhD 2007, 'Automorphism groups of homogeneous structures'. Works for KPMG in Leeds.

David Knipe 2004-2008, Ph D 2009, 'Automorphisms of the countable generic partial order'. Currently a research assistant in the Computer Science Department at Leeds University.

Feresiano Mwesigye 2005-2009, Ph D 2009, 'Elementary equivalence of linear orders and coloured linear orders'. Lecturer at the University of Mbarare, Uganda.

Kaushik Sundararajan MSc by research, 2009, Study of Borel and projective sets.

Current research Students:

Simon Rose
Ragab Elageili
Aisha Abogatma
David Bradley-Williams
Mayra Montalvo-Ballesteros


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