Sarah Rees

{{Short description|British mathematician and academic}}

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Sarah Elizabeth Rees (born 1957)Birth year from [http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016069980.html Library of Congress catalog entry], retrieved 2018-12-01. is Professor of Pure Mathematics at Newcastle University. Her focus of research is on geometrical, combinatorial and computational aspects of group theory.{{cite web|url=http://www.ncl.ac.uk/maths-physics/staff/profile/sarahrees.html|title=Staff Profile - Mathematics, Statistics and Physics - Newcastle University|website=www.ncl.ac.uk}}{{cite web|url=http://www.mas.ncl.ac.uk/~nser/|title=Sarah Rees' Home Page|website=www.mas.ncl.ac.uk}}

Rees obtained her Ph.D. in 1983 from the University of Oxford. Her dissertation, supervised by Peter Cameron, was On Diagram Geometry.{{mathgenealogy|id=29548}}

In 2003, Rees was a member of the expert panel for BBC Radio 4's In Our Time on infinity.{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0054927|title=Infinity, In Our Time - BBC Radio 4|website=BBC}}

Rees is the daughter of mathematician David Rees.

Selected publications

  • {{citation

|last1 = Holt

|first1 = Derek F

|title = Groups, languages, and automata

|last2 = Rees

|first2 = Sarah

|last3 = Röver

|first3 = Claas E

|series = London Mathematical Society student texts, 88.

|isbn = 978-1316606520

|year = 2017

|url = http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/mathematics/algebra/groups-languages-and-automata

}}

  • {{citation |last=Ciobanu |first=Laura |year=2016 |title=Rapid decay and Baum-Connes for large type Artin groups |journal=Transactions of the American Mathematical Society |last3=Rees |first3=Sarah |author2=Derek F. Holt |pages=6103–6129 |volume=368 |issue=9 |title-link=Michael Artin |doi=10.1090/tran/6532 |arxiv=1203.1198 |s2cid=54007941 }}
  • {{citation |last=Rees |first=Sarah |title=Antony G. O'Farrell and Ian Short, Reversibility in Dynamics and Group Theory, London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes Series, Volume 416 |journal=Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-107-44288-7 |pages=811–812 |volume=60 |issue=3 |title-link=London Mathematical Society |doi=10.1017/S0013091517000013 |s2cid=164277147 }}
  • {{citation |last1=Holt |first1=Derek F |title=Artin groups of large type are shortlex automatic with regular geodesics |last2=Rees |first2=Sarah |pages=486–512 |volume=104 |year=2012 |journal=Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society|title-link=shortlex |issue=3 |doi=10.1112/plms/pdr035 |arxiv=1003.6007 |s2cid=17061541 }}
  • {{citation |last1=Holt |first1=Derek F |title=Testing modules for irreducibility |journal=Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society |last2=Rees |first2=Sarah |page=1 |volume=57 |doi=10.1017/S1446788700036016 |year=1994|doi-access=free }}

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