Ruth Corran

Ruth Corran's article "Conjugacy in singular Artin monoids", J. Aust. Math. Soc., 79 (2005), 183-212 is appearing in volume 79 of the October 2005 edition of the Journal of the Australian Mathematics Society.

Ruth Corran obtained her PhD in Pure Mathematics, On monoids related to braid groups, from the University of Sydney in 2000. She had a post as Assistant Lecturer at the University of NSW, Australia, in that year. In 2001 she was the recipient of an EPSRC grant to work on reflection groups at the University of Leicester, England. In 2002 she was awarded a 2-year European Union Marie Curie postdoctoral award with the CNRS in Paris. In 2004, she took up a postdoctoral position at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. She joined the AUP in 2005.

Ruth Corran's mathematical research interests are in group and semigroup theory, particularly in terms of presentations and decision problems. She has been looking at reflection groups, braid groups, and Garside groups and monoids. Current projects include new presentations for complex reflection groups and root systems for complex reflection groups. She has published in Advances in Mathematics and the Journal of Algebra, among others.

Non-crossing partitions of type (e,e,r), with D. Bessis, Advances Math. 202 (2006), 1- 49.

Conjugacy in singular Artin monoids, J. Aust. Math. Soc. 79 (2005), 183 - 212
 

A normal form for a class of monoids containing the singular braid monoids, J. Algebra 223 (2000), no. 1, 256 - 282.
 

Solving the word problem in the singular braid monoids, Austral. Math. Soc. Gaz., 26(1) (1999), 27- 33.

Other articles, preprints:

On monoids related to braid groups, Bull. Austral. Math. Soc., 64(1) (2001) 173 -- 176 (thesis resumé)

Garside structure for the braid group of G(e,e,r), (with D. Bessis) preprint, June 2003, arXiv:math.GR/0306186

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