DAVID B. WALES
Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus

B.Sc., The University of British Columbia, 1961
M.A., The University of British Columbia, 1962
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1967

Research Interests

Group theory, algebraic combinatorics, representation theory

Recent Collaborators

• Arjeh Cohen (TUE Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

Selected Publications

• Finite linear groups in seven variables (Research Announcement), Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 74 (1968), 197-198.
• (with M. Hall, Jr.) The simple group of order 604,800, J. Algebra 9 (1968), 411-450.
• The classification of simple groups of order p3^a2^b, p a prime, Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, Vol. XXI, Representation Theory of Finite Groups and Related Topics (1971), 161-163.
• (with J. Conway) Construction of the Rudvalis group of order 145,926,144,000, J. Algebra 27 (1973), 538-548.
• (with C. Huffman) Linear groups containing an element with an eigenspace of codimension two, Proceedings of the Utah Group Theory Conference, Academic Press, New York, 1976.
• (with A. Cohen) Finite subgroups of F₄(C) and E₆(C), Proc. London Math. Soc. 74 (1997), 105-150

Recent Publications

• (with J. Saxl and R. Wilson) Embeddings of Sz(32) in E₈(5), Bull. London Math. Soc. 32 (2000), 196-202.
• (with B. Doran IV) The partition algebra revisited, J. Algebra 231 (2000), 265-330.
• (with A. Cohen, A. Steinbach, and R. Ushirobira) Lie algebras generated by extremal elements, J. Algebra 236 (2001), 122-154.
• Quasiprimitive linear groups with quadratic elements, J. Algebra 245 (2001), 584-606.
• (with A. Cohen) Linearity of Artin groups of finite type, Israel J. Math. 131 (2002), 101-123.
• (with A. Cohen and D. Gijsbers) BMW algebras of simply laced type, J. Algebra 286 (2005), 107-153.
• (with A. Cohen and D. Gijsbers) A poset connected to Artin monoids of simply laced type, J. Combinatorial Theory Ser. A 113 (2006), 1646-1666
• (with A. Cohen and D. Gijsbers) Tangle and Brauer diagram algebras of type D_n, preprint, 2007
• J. Knot theory an Its Ramifications 18, no.4, (2009), 447-483.

• (with A. Cohen and D. Gijsbers) The BMW algebras of type D_n, preprint, 2007.
• (with A. Cohen and B. Frenk) Brauer algebras of simply laced type, preprint, 2007. 
• (with C. Ku) Eigenvalues of the derangement graph, preprint, 2008.

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