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STAFF — Rick Thomas

Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
G8 Computer Science Building
Department of Computer Science,
University of Leicester,
University Road,
Leicester,
LE1 7RH.

T: +44 (0)116 252 3885
F: +44 (0)116 252 3915
E: rmt@mcs.le.ac.uk

Some history.

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I did my undergraduate degree in Mathematics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University and stayed on there to read for a DPhil; my area of research was finite simple groups and I was supervised by Brian Stewart. I was awarded my doctorate in 1978, and then spent two years lecturing Mathematics at Brunel University, followed by a year at University College London. I was then appointed Lecturer in Mathematics at St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill in 1981, and I spent six years there before moving on to a lectureship in Computer Science in the Computing Studies Department at Leicester in 1987.

After the merger of the Mathematics and Computing Studies Departments in 1992, I became a member of the newly formed Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, which became the School of Mathematics and Computer Science in 2003. I am now a member of the Department of Computer Science within the School.

Research.

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My main areas of interest are concerned with the computational complexity of algebraic structures; see here for some more information about the research themes in the department. For more details about my own research (such as a list of publications and the names of those people I have been lucky enough to collaborate with) see the links in the menu bar on the right.

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