Derek Holt Professor of Mathematics (on leave in term 2 2011/12)  Chair of Teaching Committee Joint Degree Adviser for Business Studies Office: B1.27 Phone: +44 (0)24 7652 3480 Email: D dot F dot Holt at warwick dot ac dot uk

Reseach Interests: Group theory, computational algebra

Teaching Responsibilities 2011/12:
Term 1: MA442 Group Theory

Most relevant recent publications:

Holt D, with Eick B, O'Brien E. Handbook of Computational group Theory. (536 pages), CRC Press, 2005.

Holt D, Epstein D B A. The linearity of the conjugacy problem in word hyperbolic groups. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ALGEBRA AND COMPUTATION,16,(2006),287-305

Holt D, O'Brien E. A computer assisted analysis of some matrix groups. JOURNAL OF ALGEBRA,300,(2006),199-212

Holt D, Hermiller S, Rees S. Star-free geodesic languages for groups. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ALGEBRA AND COMPUTATION,17,(2007),329-345

Gilman R H, Holt D, Hermiller S, Rees S. A characterization of virtually free groups. ARCHIV DER MATHEMATIK,89,(2007),289-295

Holt D, Owens M D, Thomas, R M. Groups and semigroups with a one-counter word problem. JOURNAL OF THE AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY,85,(2008),197-209.

Holt D, Roney-Dougal C M. Constructing maximal subgroups of orthogonal groups. L.M.S. ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF COMPUTATION AND MATHEMATICS,13,(2010),164-191.

Havas G, Holt D. On Coxeter's families of group presentations.JOURNAL OF ALGEBRA,324,(2010),1076-1082.

Research grants:

LMS, Visit of Prof S Hermiller (May 2006)

LMS, Visit of Prof E A O'Brien (July 2007)

LMS, Visit of Prof E A O'Brien (September 2011)

For more information and further publications see Derek Holt's homepage