Dr David Craven

Qualifications

D.Phil. (Oxford), MSci. (Birmingham)

Role or Position

Junior Research Fellow

Email address

craven@maths.ox.ac.uk

Academic Background

2000--2004: M.Sci., Mathematical Sciences, University of Birmingham
2004--2008: D.Phil., Mathematics, St. John's College, University of Oxford.
March--April 2008: Visiting Research Fellow, MSRI, UC Berkeley, CA.
October 2008--present: Junior Research Fellow, Christ Church College, University of Oxford.

Undergraduate Teaching

B2b, Finite Group Theory (Intercollegiate classes)

Research Interests

My research interests cover a selection of disjoint areas, including but not limited to: -representations of finite groups, particularly over fields of prime characteristic; -groups generated by automata; -representation growth of residually finite groups; -group rings of torsion-free groups; -the partition function and associated combinatorics; and -applications of pure mathematics to chemistry.

Publications include

-Symmetric Group Character Degrees and Hook Numbers, Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. 96 (2008), 26-50
-Developing Random Network Theory for Carbon Nanotube Modified Electrode Voltammetry (jt with Andrew Holloway, Lei Xiao, Javier Del Campo, and Gregory Wildgoose), J. Phys. Chem. C, to appear
-Simple Modules for Groups with Abelian Sylow 2-Subgroups are Algebraic, J. Algebra, to appear
-Algebraic Modules and the Auslander-Reiten Quiver, submitted.

Links

Departmental website: http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/~craven/