The Cheryl E. Praeger Visiting Research Fellowship funds visits to The University of Western Australia (UWA) by mathematicians who are early in their careers in the mathematical disciplines of algebra and combinatorics.
The fund supporting the Fellowship was established with an initial donation from Cheryl Praeger comprising of prize monies from her awards of 2009 Western Australian Scientist of the Year, 2012 Office for Learning and Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning, UWA award for highly cited researchers, and other research allocation funds.Recipients of the fellowship are expected to participate in education, e.g. via lectures, and to participate in collaborative research with members of the School of Mathematics and Statistics and the Centre for the Mathematics of Symmetry and Computation (CMSC) during a visit of at least two weeks.
The fellowship, which is awarded annually contributes to accommodation and travel costs of the recipient, and is designed to enhance research collaboration at UWA.
How to apply
Once an an eligible applicant is identified the Selection Panel makes a recommendation to the Head of School. Following this recommendation a ‘Recommendation to offer visiting appointment’ form is completed along with the appropriate attachments.
This documentation is approved by the Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics before going to Human Resources for Confirmation of Appointment and Letter of Invitation to be prepared and sent to the successful applicant.
If you are interested in being nominated for the Fellowship please contact a member of the Centre for the Mathematics of Symmetry and Computation (CMSC).
Recipients of the Cheryl E. Praeger Visiting Research Fellowship
2016: Joy Morris
Joy Morris was born in Canada. After completing a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and English at Trent University. She went on to do her PhD in Algebraic Graph Theory at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, under the supervision of Brian Alspach. She graduated in 2000 and has been working at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada since then. She received a University Faculty Award from Canada’s national research agency (NSERC) in 2001, a prestigious grant that supports promising young researchers by reducing their teaching requirements for five years. She was promoted to full Professor in 2015.
Joy has 36 publications that have appeared or been accepted, in journals including the Transactions of the American Math Society. She has been an invited speaker at a number of international conferences in Slovenia, China, and Canada.
Joy's first visit to Perth was in 2010 during a sabbatical. The Cheryl E. Praeger Fellowship allowed her to return to Perth for four weeks that included giving five presentations, participating in the CMSC retreat, attend a conference in New Zealand and a work collaboratively with various CMSC members that will result in two research projects.
2015: Colva Roney-Dougal
Colva is a Reader in Pure Mathematics at the University of St. Andrews, where she is the Director of the Centre for Interdicsiplinary Research in Computational Algebra. Colva's research centers on group theory, both finite and infinite. She has done considerable work on the development of fast algorithms for finite and infinite groups. As well as her academic work, she has done a great deal of mathematics popularization, including several radio shows with Melvyn Bragg and one with Brian Cox.
During her visit Colva has made substantial progress on two research projects: one with Cheryl Praeger and Stephen Glasby, and another with Luke Morgan. Colva gave a Mathematics & Statistics Colloquium and a Groups and Combinatorics Seminar on the 29 January 2015, as well as beginning research discussions with other members of CMSC including Tomasz Popiel and Eric Swartz.
Papers published as a result from the fellowship
AUTHORs: Luke Morgan and Colva M. Roney-Dougal,
TITLE: A note on the probability of generating alternating or
symmetric groups, Archiv der Mathematik (Basel), 105 (2015), 201—204.
DOI: 10.1007/s00013-015-0796-8
University information
CRICOS Code: 00126G
