Last Updated: 12/12/2011

Papers / Preprints

1. •On Unipotent Supports of Reductive Groups With a Disconnected Centre; 23 pages, submitted, preprint at arXiv:1108.4814.
   

What I’m About

I am a PhD student at the University of Aberdeen, in the department of Mathematics. I started this endeavour in October 2008. I am supervised by the great Professor Meinolf Geck, who tries to keep me out of as much mathematical trouble as possible. I am, according to some fellow mathematicians, a little obsessed with the theory of Algebraic Groups, (more so linear algebraic groups, i.e. the ‘affine’ case). In short I have an avid interest in the Representation theory associated to the Finite Groups of Lie Type. Over the period of my PhD I hope to know a little bit more about the representation theory of finite reductive groups with a disconnected centre.

I did my first degree at the University of York, where I was supervised by Professor Stephen Donkin for my MMath project. It was in this supervision period that I was first introduced to the real ‘crack’. I therefore attribute all my addictions to the aforementioned professor.

In my spare time I try to remember that I own an Alto Saxophone, also I am very interested in hunting down CD’s that I wish to own for less than £2.50. I have recently started a list of mathematical books that I would like to own but this is getting somewhat long and expensive.

I had a deep desire to find a good, not too expensive, second hand copy of Roger Carter’s biblical text ‘Finite Groups of Lie Type: Conjugacy Classes and Complex Characters’. Luckily a very good friend of mine has gifted me a second hand copy which he owned and didn’t seem to have much use for. I am truly grateful to this person. I still believe that this book should be in print and that Wiley Publishing should be forced to make the book print on demand.

As is customary amongst mathematicians I include a small list of other mathematicians who I like to keep track of. Note that this list is in alphabetical order and does not adhere to any kind of absurd ranking system.

1. •Dave Benson
   

2. •Cédric Bonnafé
   

3. •Chris Bowman
   

4. •Maria Chlouveraki
   

5. •Matthew Clarke
   

6. •Meinolf Geck
   

7. •Olivier Brunat
   

8. •Simon Goodwin
   

9. •Gerhard Hiss
   

10. •Nicolas Jacon
    

11. •Frank Lübeck
    

12. •Gunter Malle
    

13. •Ulrich Thiel