Derek J. S. Robinson

Professor
Department of Mathematics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1409 W. Green Street
Urbana, Illinois 61801-2975

Office: 332 Illini Hall
Office Tel: (217)333-6219
FAX: (217) 333-9576
e-mail: robinson@math.uiuc.edu

General Information

B.Sc. Edinburgh University 1960; Ph.D. Cambridge University 1963; Sir Edmund Whittaker Prize 1970; Alexander von Humboldt prize 1979; Beckman Research Award 1994. W.W. Boone Distinguished Research Professor 2003-5. Founding Editor: Journal of Group Theory. Editor: Ricerche di Matematica.

Area of Specialization

Theory of finite and infinite groups. Infinite soluble groups. Connections between group theory and ring theory and homological algebra. Algorithms for groups. Permutable subgroups in groups: the Maier-Schmid problem. Groups with transitive normality or permutability. Co-hopfian groups. The profinite topology on a group.

Selected Publications

  • Articles
  • Books

    • PhD Students

    1. C. D. H. Cooper
    2. D. McDougal
    3. T. A. Fournelle
    4. J. Zimmerman
    5. R. Nehmer
    6. R. D. Blyth
    7. V. Walter
    8. Y. F. Wu
    9. D. H. Paek
    10. C. C. Ferguson
    11. J. W. Elliot