computer science

About Me

I did my undergraduate degree in mathematics and graduated from the University of York in July 2010. Since October 2010 I have been working at the university of Leicester as a Graduate Teaching Assistant whilst studying for my PhD under the supervision of Professor Rick Thomas.

Research/Interests

Broadly, I am interested in number theory, computational complexity theory, complex analysis (particularly the Riemann-zeta function), galois theory, graph theory, group theory and formal language theory. In terms of research, I am particularly interested in the word problem of groups and how it behaves as a formal language, recently I have been looking at some decidability questions related to context-free grammars which generate word problems of groups.

Teaching

• CW 301 Help Desk: Tuesday 14:00 - 15:00 for Spring term 2011-2012


• Winter term 2010 - 2011
  • CO2006: Software engineering and system development
  
  
  • CO2012: Software project management and professionalism


• Spring term 2010 - 2011
  • CO1001: Logic and Problem Solving
  
  
  • CO1005: Data Structures and Development Environments


• Winter term 2011 - 2012
  • CO1012: Discrete Structures
  
  
  • CO2012: Software project management and professionalism
  
  
  • I gave the last lecture of the course CO7104: C++ Programming and Advanced Algorithm Design - The lecture about the DFT and the FFT
• Spring term 2011 - 2012
  • CO1005: Data Structures and Development Environments

Author: Sam Jones (sj175 AT) mcs.le.ac.uk), T: +44 (0)116 252 3904.
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