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Marston D.E. Conder

PhD, DSc, FRSNZ, FTICA University of Auckland, New Zealand

Personal

Born: 1955, Hamilton, New Zealand; Spoken languages: English, French and German.

Education

D.Sc. (2000), D.Phil. (1980) and M.Sc. (1978) in Mathematics, University of Oxford, U.K., M.Soc.Sc (1977) and B.Soc.Sc. (1975) in Mathematics, University of Waikato, New Zealand.

Academic experience

Professor of Mathematics, University of Auckland since 1993; previously Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Lecturer, University of Auckland (1983–92); Visiting Professor at Peking University, China (2009); Visiting Professor at University of Waterloo, Canada (1992); Visiting Fellow at University of Oxford, U.K. (1992); Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow, Universität Tübingen, Germany (1987); Royal Society (of London) Research Fellow, Universität Tübingen, Germany (1982); Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Otago, New Zealand (1981); Supervisor or co-supervisor for 8 Ph.D. students in Mathematics plus several Masters and Honours research students.

Research fields

Group theory; combinatorial theory; algebraic computation; automorphism groups of Riemann surfaces, Klein surfaces, 3-manifolds and polytopes.  Main interest: discrete objects with maximal symmetry.

Professional experience/leadership

Director of New Zealand Institute of Mathematics & its Applications (2002–); Vice-President (International) of Royal Society of New Zealand (2008–09); President of Academy of Royal Society of New Zealand (2006–08); Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Auckland (1999–2001); Head of Department of Mathematics, University of Auckland  1996–98; President of New Zealand Mathematical Society (1993–95).

Professional activities

Reviewer for Math Reviews and Zentralblatt für Mathematik; Referee for over 35 international mathematical journals; Member of organising committee or programme committee for numerous international scientific meetings; Frequent invited speaker at international conferenecs and workshops; Member of several international professional societies, including American and London Mathematical Societies and the Institute of Combinatorics & Applications; Member of Editorial Board of Ars Mathematica Contemporanea, 2007–; Member of Editorial Board of Groups, Complexity & Cryptology, 2007–; Member of the NZ National Science Panel, 2007–; Chair of New Zealand Government Committee to establish the Performance Based Research Fund, 2002; Lead Expert in Review of New Zealand's Scientific Knowledge Base, 1996; Member of Editorial Board of Communications in Algebra, 1995–2000; Member of Editorial Board of NZ Journal of Mathematics 1992–.

Awards and honours

Fellowship of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 1987 & 2010; Hood Fellowship, 2005; Election to Fellowship of the Institute of Combinatorics & Applications, 2004; Election to Fellowship of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 1998; Election to Fellowship of the NZ Mathematical Society, 1997; NZ Mathematical Society Research Award, 1993; Senior Mathematical Prize, University of Oxford, 1980; Johnson Prize, University of Oxford, 1980

Research grants

ISAT Linkages Grant, 2004; Centres of Research Excellence Grants, 2002–2011; Marsden Fund Grants 1995 (inaugural round), 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007; Claude McCarthy Fellowship, 1995; Prince & Princess of Wales Science Award, 1989; London Mathematical Society Visitor Award, 1987.

Published work

Primary author and co-author of over 100 published works (compete list of publications available at http://www.math.auckland.ac.nz/~conder/publist); SCI Citations: 83 papers with 558 SCI citations; average citations: 6.72;  h-index 11 (WoS, March 2010).

  1. Conder, Marston; Širáň, Jozef; Tucker, Thomas: The genera, reflexibility and simplicity of regular maps, J. Europ. Math. Soc. 12 (2010), 343–364.
  2. Conder, Marston; Hubard, Isabel; Pisanski, Tomaž: Constructions for chiral polytopes. J. Lond. Math. Soc. 77  (2008), 115–129.
  3. Conder, Marston; Nedela, Roman: A refined classification of symmetric cubic graphs. J. Algebra 322  (2009), 722–740.
  4. Conder, Marston: On symmetries of Cayley graphs and the graphs underlying regular maps. J. Algebra 321 (2009), 3112–3127.
  5. Conder, Marston: Regular maps and hypermaps of Euler characteristic -1 to -200. J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 99 (2009), 455–459.