Robert Bailey's Homepage


Welcome
Hello. You have reached Robert Bailey's personal homepage. I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Regina, working with Karen Meagher and Sandra Zilles. I am a member of the Discrete Mathematics Research Group.

I was previously (until the end of August 2011) a PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow in the same department.

Prior to that (2007–2009), I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University, working under the supervision of Brett Stevens and Lucia Moura.

Before that, I was a PhD student at Queen Mary, University of London, where my supervisor was Peter Cameron, and an undergraduate student at the University of Leeds and the University of Waterloo.

You can read my CV here.



Quick links: Teaching  Research  Publications  GDAC and PDMW  PJC60  PCC2004  Useful Information  Useless Information  Contact Details



Teaching

In the Winter 2012 term, I am teaching Mathematics 122–001 Linear Algebra I. Click here for the course webpage.

Old courses
At the University of Regina:

At Carleton University:

At Queen Mary, University of London:



Research
My research interests could loosely be described as algebraic combinatorics, which in my case usually means looking at combinatorial problems where there is a permutation group not very far away.

Recently, most of my time has been spent working on the relationship between the base sizes of permutation groups and the metric dimension of graphs. A survey article on this topic is now available here.

Some specific topics (although not all are the subject of current research activity) include the following:

My PhD was completed in January 2006. My thesis was entitled Permutation Groups, Error-Correcting Codes and Uncoverings; it's about the use of permutation groups as error-correcting codes, and develops a decoding algorithm for them, which then led to questions related to covering designs. You can download it (as a PDF file) here; please let me know if you do.

You may have seen me at one of these conferences. A list of talks I have given can be found here.



Publications
See my Publications Page.



Two conferences in July 2011

I was one of the organisers of two conferences that took place at the University of Regina in July 2011:



PJC60
I was one of the organisers of From Higman-Sims to Urysohn: a random walk through groups, graphs, designs, and spaces: Peter Cameron's 60th birthday conference, which took place in Ambleside, 23rd-26th August 2007. See the conference web page for details.



Postgraduate Combinatorial Conference
I organised the 15th Postgraduate Combinatorial Conference, which took place from 20th to 22nd April 2004, at Queen Mary, University of London. Click here for more details.



Vaguely useful information
My schedule
Some useful journals
UofR MathSciNet access
La Jolla Covering Repository
My Erdős number
LIPS and QuIPS–some seminars I organised a long time ago
A personal link

The Mathematics Genealogy Project



Useless information
Other people called Robert Bailey (probably only of interest to people called Robert Bailey)
What combinatorialists do at the beach (photo)
What graph theorists do at the beach (another photo)



Contact Information
E-mail: robert [DOT] bailey [AT] uregina.ca
Or the old-fashioned way:
College West 307.12
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Regina
3737 Wascana Parkway
Regina, Saskatchewan S4S 0A2
Canada
Tel. +1 306-585-4088



Disclaimer
The views and opinions expressed in these pages are strictly those of the page author. The contents of these pages have not been reviewed or approved by the University of Regina.

Page last updated 5 February 2012.