Projects per year
Personal profile
Career
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Reader in Pure Mathematics, University of East Anglia (2020– )
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Senior Lecturer in Pure Mathematics, University of East Anglia (2017–2020)
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Lecturer in Pure Mathematics, University of East Anglia (2013–2017)
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FCT Ciência 2008 Research Fellow, Centre of Algebra of the University of Lisbon, Portugal (2010—2013)
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EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews (2008–2010)
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Research Fellow, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, UK. Member of the Leeds Logic Group working on the EPSRC funded project “Homogeneous structures, bipartite graphs, and partial orders” (2006–2008)
Website: https://archive.uea.ac.uk/~fga12juu/RobertGray.html
Follow this link for details of current PhD opportunities in Mathematics. But feel free to email me to discuss projects outside these areas and alternative sources of funding.
Key Responsibilities
- Director of Admissions for the School of Mathematics, University of East Anglia (2017-2021)
Teaching Interests
I have taught a range of mathematics courses at UEA including: first-year Linear Algebra, Algeba I: Group Theory, Mathematical Skills, and the module Sets, Numbers and Proof; second-year Ring Theory, and Further Linear Algebra, and the third-fourth-year modules Semigroup Theory, and Galois Theory.
Key Research Interests
I am an algebraist with interests in a wide range of topics including: combinatorial and geometric group and semigroup theory, algorithmic problems for groups and monoids, homological finiteness properties, algebraic combinatorics, groups acting on graphs and other relational structures, and homogeneous structures in the model-theoretic sense.
Grants and Projects
Past grants:
- EPSRC grant EP/N033353/1 "Special inverse monoids: subgroups, structure, geometry, rewriting systems and the word problem".
- EPSRC grant EP/E043194/1 "Finiteness Conditions and Index in Semigroups and Monoids".
Research Group or Lab Membership
Current PhD Students
- Carl-Fredrik Nyberg Brodda, University of East Anglia (funded by a UEA SCI competition funded studentship)
Former PhD Students
- Diane Lubbock (Finiteness properties for semigroups and their substructures), University of East Anglia, viva passed in November 2020
- Thomas Coleman (Automorphisms and endomorphisms of first-order structures), University of East Anglia, viva passed in June 2017
Network
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Topological and homological properties of one-relator monoids
London Mathematical Society (The)
1/04/19 → 30/09/19
Project: Research
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Universal locally-finite partially homogeneous semigroups and inverse semigroups
London Mathematical Society (The)
1/06/16 → 31/07/16
Project: Research
Research output
- 53 Article
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Algorithmic properties of inverse monoids with hyperbolic and tree-like Schützenberger graphs
Gray, R. D., Silva, P. V. & Szakács, N., 1 Dec 2022, In: Journal of Algebra. 611, p. 651-687 37 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A Lyndon’s identity theorem for one-relator monoids
Gray, R. D. & Steinberg, B., 27 Apr 2022, In: Selecta Mathematica. 28, 3, 59.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Topological finiteness properties of monoids Part 1: Foundations
Gray, R. & Steinberg, B., 2022, In: Algebraic & Geometric Topology. 22, 7, p. 3083-3170 88 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ehresmann theory and partition monoids
East, J. & Gray, R., 1 Aug 2021, In: Journal of Algebra. 579, p. 318-352 35 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Free inverse monoids are not FP2
Gray, R. & Steinberg, B., 8 Oct 2021, In: Comptes Rendus Mathématique. 359, 8, p. 1047-1057 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile2 Citations (Scopus)7 Downloads (Pure)