Prof Nik Ruskuc

Prof Nik Ruskuc

Director of Research

Professor

Researcher profile

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 3787
Email
nik.ruskuc@st-andrews.ac.uk
Office
303 MI
Location
Mathematical Institute

 

Research areas

Combinatorial semigroup theory: generating sets for semigroups and defining semigroups by presentations (generators and defining relations); presentations for substructures and algebraic constructions;

Subsemigroups: index and rank; 

Group and semigroup presentations;

Transformation semigroups: properties of finite and infinite semigroups of mappings from a set into itself;

 Machine and languages (theoretical computer science) in algebra: automatic structures, decidability;

Combinatorics of permutations, words, etc: pattern classes, decidability questions in combinatorics; 

Computational algebra: algorithms and packages for computing with algebraic structures. 

PhD supervision

  • Callum Barber
  • Jung Won Cho
  • Victoria Ironmonger
  • Struan McCartney
  • Theodor Thorbjornsen
  • Zhongyi Zhou
  • Yayi Zhu

Selected publications

 

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