Dist Prof Marston Donald Edward Conder

MSocSc (Waikato), DPhil (Oxford), DSc (Oxford), FAMS, FNZMS, FRSNZ, FTICA

Professor

In: Mathematics » Faculty of Science

Research | Current

Combinatorial group theory
Symmetries of maps and surfaces
Discrete computation

Postgraduate supervision

Projects on offer

Finitely-presented groups (Reading and/or Project)
Actions of groups on graphs (Reading and/or Project)
Actions of groups on surfaces (Reading and/or Project)
Questions on linear orderings of subsets of a finite set (Reading and/or Project)

Areas of expertise

* Group theory and its applications, especially to the study of symmetry

* Regular and chiral maps on surfaces

* Arc-transitive graphs

* Regular and chiral polytopes

* Group actions on Riemann and Klein surfaces

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Conder, M. D. E. (2018). On a family of groups defined by Said Sidki. Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 50 (1), 26-34. 10.1112/blms.12106
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/40774
Du, J. L., Conder, M., & Feng, Y. Q. (2018). Cubic core-free symmetric m-Cayley graphs. Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics10.1007/s10801-018-0847-x
Conder, M. D. E., Estelyi, I., & Pisanski, T. (2018). Vertex-Transitive Haar Graphs That Are Not Cayley Graphs. Paper presented at Conference on Geometry and Symmetry, Univ Pannonia, Veszprem, HUNGARY. 29 June - 3 July 2015. DISCRETE GEOMETRY AND SYMMETRY: DEDICATED TO KAROLY BEZDEK AND EGON SCHULTE ON THE OCCASION OF THEIR 60TH BIRTHDAYS. (pp. 10). 10.1007/978-3-319-78434-2_3
Conder, M. D. E., & Poznanovic, N. (2018). The arc-types of Cayley graphs. ARS MATHEMATICA CONTEMPORANEA, 15 (1), 97-112. 10.26493/1855-3974.1327.6ee
Conder, M., & Melekoğlu A (2017). Link indices of Hurwitz maps. Journal of Algebra, 490, 568-580. 10.1016/j.jalgebra.2017.08.001
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/43320
Conder, M. D. E., & Zhang, W.-J. (2017). The smallest chiral 6-polytopes. Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 49 (4), 549-560. 10.1112/blms.12046
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/39413
Conder, M. D. E. (2017). Answer to a 1962 question by Zappa on cosets of Sylow subgroups. Advances in Mathematics, 313, 167-175. 10.1016/j.aim.2017.04.011
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/40621
Conder, M. D. E., & Zhang, W.-J. (2017). Abelian covers of chiral polytopes. Journal of Algebra, 478, 437-457. 10.1016/j.jalgebra.2017.01.047
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/34234