Edmund Robertson
Professor of Mathematics
Born: 1 June 1943, St
Andrews, Scotland.
Education: Madras
College, St Andrews, University of St Andrews; University of Warwick.
Degrees:
B.Sc. University of St Andrews
(1965); M.Sc. University of Warwick (1966); Ph.D. University of Warwick
(1968).
Lecturer in Pure Mathematics,
University of St Andrews, 1968-1984
Senior Lecturer in Pure
Mathematics, University of St Andrews, 1984-95
Professor of Mathematics,
University of St Andrews, 1995-
Royal Society of Edinburgh
Fellow 1997; RSE Selection Committee B7 - mathematics and statistics
1999-; Editor, Proceedings A 2004-
Research students.20
doctoral students successfully completed; Seven research students
supervised in 2004/5.
EPSRC Mathematics College
1997-2000, Chairman of EPSRC Mathematics and Statistics panel; EPSRC
Peer Review College 2000-2002; Mathematics Studentship Panel 2000;
Member of EPSRC MathFIT panel January 2002; EPSRC Peer Review College
2003-
Speaker at over 75
international conferences.
Major
research grants:
National Research Council of
Canada 1976; SERC £8,620 - 1984-87; SERC £40,000 - 1988-91; EU £77,016 -
1988-91; SERC £11,068 - 1992-95; EU 103,200 ECU - 1993-94; SERC £99,593
- 1993-96; EU 400,000 ECU - 1993-1996; EU 64,330 ECU - 1994-96, EPSRC
£89,299 1995-98; British Council/DAAD £8,700 - 1997-2000; EPSRC £181,240
- 1997-2000; Leverhulme Trust £64,746 - 1997-2000;
EPSRC £144 327 - 2004-2007; EPSRC
£157,723 - 2004-2007.
External
assessor:
University of Cambridge
Fellowship Competition 1991; Chair at University of Keele 1999; School
of Mathematics and Physics at Napier University 1999; Computer Studies
and Mathematical Science National University of Ireland Galway 2002;
School of Mathematics University of Glasgow (2003); School of
Mathematics, University of Bath (2003), School of Mathematics Heriot-Watt
University (2005).
Ph.D. and D.Sc. Examiner:
Cambridge, Nottingham, Edinburgh (2), Manchester, Cardiff (2), Warwick,
Bangor, Glasgow (D.Sc.).
External Examiner: University
of Dundee 1977-81; University of Aberdeen 1991-95; Heriot-Watt
University 1995-9; University of Liverpool 2000-2005.
Editor of Conference
Proceedings: Thirteen books of which the most recent are: Proceedings
Groups St Andrews 1997 in Bath (2 Volumes) Cambridge University Press
(1999); Computational and Geometric Aspects of Modern Algebra Cambridge
University Press (2000); Proceedings Groups St Andrews 2001 in Oxford
(2 Volumes) Cambridge University Press (2003), Proceedings Groups St
Andrews 2005 Cambridge University Press (to appear).
Research
software:
Written software which is part
of the major systems SPAS, CAYLEY, MAGMA, GAP
MacTutor History of
Mathematics web site. Written over 1700 biographies of
mathematicians and related scientists for the web site. Written around
90 historical articles on mathematical topics. Written chronology of
mathematics from 30000 B.C. to the present day. Over 30 prizes and
awards. 2,000,000 hits per week during the academic year.
European Academic Software
Award 1994; USA Computational Engineering and Science Award 1995.
Head of School of
Mathematical and Computational Sciences 1997-2000; Head of School of
Mathematics and Statistics 2000-2001
Vice-chairman, Madras College
Endowment Trust 1986-; Governor Morrison's Academy 1999-; Scottish
Mathematical Council 1997-2004; Chairman BMC Scientific Committee 2005-
Understanding of Science: Five
lecturers at Techfest 1999; British Association lecture to schools 2002.
GAP/CIRCA. Arranged for
St Andrews to become headquarters of GAP development (one of the leading
two software packages for algebra and discrete mathematics world-wide).
Set up CIRCA as a University of St Andrews Centre to oversee GAP
development; Associate Director and Project Director of CIRCA; Chairman
of International GAP Council 2003-.
Multidisciplinary Critical Mass in Computational Algebra and
Applications 1.4M 2005-
Other Committees:
University of St Andrews Steering Committee of Senate 1993-98; Research
Strategy Planning Group 1999-2001; Policy Advisory Group of Edinburgh
Mathematical Society 1996-1999. Research Leave Committee 2004-
Conference organiser:
Organiser of 12 international mathematics conferences. Most recent
Groups St Andrews 2005 in St Andrews
Books: 16 books at
undergraduate level.
Research Publications.
Over 140 research papers: Most
recent include:
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Havas G and Robertson, E
F, Palindromic presentations (in preparation).
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Havas G, Robertson, E F
and Sutherland, D C, Computer assisted proofs for finitely presented
groups (in preparation).
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Robertson E F, Campbell C
M, Havas G and Ramsay C, Nice efficient presentations for all small
simple groups and their covers II (in preparation).
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Havas G and Robertson, E
F, On the F^{a,b,c} conjecture (in preparation).
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Cain A J, Ruskuc N and
Robertson E F, Malcev presentations and automatic semigroups (to
appear).
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Cain A J, Ruskuc N and
Robertson E F, Subsemigroups of virtually free groups: Finite Malcev
presentations and testing for freeness,
Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. (to appear).
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2004, Campbell, C M,
Campbell, P P, Doostie H and Robertson, E F, Fibonacci lengths for
certain metacyclic groups, Algebra Colloq., 11(2): 215-222.
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2004, Robertson E F and
O’Connor J J, Isaac Barrow, in Biographical Dictionary of British
Economists, Rutherford D (ed). Thoemmes Continuum, 1 84371 030 7.
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2004, Robertson E F,
Campbell C M, Havas G and Ramsay C, Nice efficient presentations for
all small simple groups and their covers, LMS J. Comput. Math., 7:
266-283.
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2004, Robertson E F and
O’Connor J J, Obituary : David Allan Spence January 3, 1926-
September 7, 2003, Austral. Math. Soc. Gaz., 31(1): 58-59.
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2004, Robertson E F,
Brooksbank P, Qin H and Seress A, On Dowling geometries of infinite
groups, J. Combinatorial Theory (Ser. A), 1(108): 155 -158.
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2004, Campbell, C M;
Campbell, P P; Doostie, H.; Robertson, E F, On the Fibonacci length
of powers of dihedral groups, Applications of Fibonacci numbers, 9:
69-85.
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2004, Robertson E F and
O’Connor J J, William Ernest Johnson, in Biographical Dictionary of
British Economists, Rutherford D (ed). Thoemmes Continuum, 1 84371
030 7.
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2003, Campbell, C M, Havas,
G, Hulpke, A and Robertson, E F, Efficient simple groups,
Communications in Algebra, 31(10): 5191-5197.
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2003, Robertson, E F,
Ruskuc, N and Thomson, M R, Finite generation and presentability of
wreath products of monoids, Journal of Algebra, 266(2): 382-392.
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2003, Campbell, C M,
Robertson, E F and Smith, G C (eds), Groups St Andrews 2001 in
Oxford, Volume 1, London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes in
Mathematics 304, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 293 pp,
0521537398.
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2003, Campbell, C M,
Robertson, E F and Smith, G C (eds), Groups St Andrews 2001 in
Oxford, Volume 2, London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes in
Mathematics 305, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 305 pp,
0521537401.
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2003, Havas, G and
Robertson, E F, Irreducible cyclic presentations of the trivial
group, Experimental Mathematics, 12: 487-490.
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2003, Campbell, C M,
Campbell, P P, Hopson, B T K and Robertson, E F, On the efficiency
of direct powers of PGL(2,p), Recent advances in group theory and
low-dimensional topology (eds J R Cho and J Mennicke) (Pusan, 2000).
Heldermann, Lemgo., Research and Exposition in Mathematics, 27:
27-34.
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2003, Robertson, E F,
Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity, J. Roman
Studies, 93: 118-119.
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2003, O’Connor J J and
Robertson, E F, The life of Johann Benedict Listing, Strabismus,
11(4): 247-250.
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