Don Taylor

Honorary Associate Professor

School of Mathematics and Statistics
Carslaw Building (F07)
The University of Sydney NSW 2006

Office: Carslaw 609
Phone: (02) 9351 5775
Email:

Degrees

1967 Monash University: BSc (Hons)
Project: Riesz vector spaces
Superviser: Professor J. B. Miller

1968 Monash University: MSc
Thesis: Characterizations of some groups of even order
Supervisor: Professor Z. Janko

1972 University of Oxford: D. Phil.
Thesis: Some topics in the theory of finite groups (actually, it was about 2-graphs)
Supervisor: Professor G. Higman

Research interests:

  • Computational algebra (Magma) for:
    • classical groups
    • groups of Lie type
  • Unitary reflection groups
  • Groups acting on graphs and geometries