Dr Andrew Duncan
Reader in Algebra
- Email: a.duncan@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: 0191 222 8737
- Fax: 0191 2228020
- Website: http://www.mas.ncl.ac.uk/~najd2/
Research Interests
Geometric and Combinatorial Group Theory
Low Dimensional Topology
Quantum Computation
Selected Publications
- A.J. Duncan. Exponential Genus Problems in One-Relator Products of Groups. American Mathematical Society, 2007.
- Andrew Duncan, I.V. Kazatchkov and V.N. Remeslennikov. Centraliser Dimension of Partially Commutative Groups. Geometriae Dedicata 2006, 120(1), 73-97.
- Michael Batty, Andrew Duncan and Samuel L. Braunstein. Extending the Promise of the Deutsch-Jozsa-Høyer Algorithm for Finite Groups, In: London Mathematical Society. Journal of Computation and Mathematics, v.9 (2006). Cambridge University Press, 2006. Available at: http://www.lms.ac.uk/jcm/9/lms2004-064/sub/lms2004-064.pdf.
- A.J. Duncan and R.H. Gilman. Word hyperbolic semigroups. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 2004, 136(3), 513-524.
- Andrew Duncan, I.V. Kazatchkov and V.N. Remeslennikov. Centraliser Dimension and Universal Classes of Groups. Siberian Electronic Mathematical Reports 2006, 3, 197-215.
- A.J. Duncan, E. Robertson and N. Ruskuc. Automatic Monoids and Change of generators. Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc 1999, 127(2), 403-409.
Funding
Algebraic Geometry of Partially Commutative Groups: visit of Remeslennikov and Kazachkov - 6 weeks of June and July 2006
Quantum Computation and group theory. 2002-2005, c. 100K.
Visit of Myasnikov, May 2005, 350.
Algebraic geometry and algorithms in Artin groups. 2004, 10K.
LMS Northern Regional Meeting (PI Prof S Rees, Ncl) 2004, 10K.
Visit of Dr Vdovina, April 2004, 600.
Roles and Responsibilities
2 Postgraduate Students
Exams and Admissions databases
Staff Student Committee
EPSRC peer review college and mathematics prioritisation panel.