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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | General and overarching topics in Mathematics; collections |
| Keywords | Representation Theory, Finite Group, Cohomology, Invariant Theory |
Current contact address
| Country | United Kingdom |
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| City | Aberdeen |
| Institution | University of Aberdeen |
| Institute | Department of Mathematical Sciences |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Henning Krause | Fakultät für Elektrotechnik, Informatik und Mathematik (EIM), Universität Paderborn, Paderborn |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/09/2005 |
Programme(s)
| 2004 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Dave Benson is an outstanding mathematician who made significant contributions to the representation theory of finite groups. He started as a pure group theorist with an existence proof of Janko's fourth simple group. Today, his main interest is centered around 'Representations and Cohomology' (which is the title of two beautiful volumes he wrote). His work is built on connections to a number of other fields like algebraic topology and commutative algebra. Professor Benson is popular as an enthusiastic lecturer, and his interests reach far beyond mathematics: he is an expert on 'Mathematics and Music' and, last not least, an excellent juggler. |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2009 | David J. Benson, Srikanth B. Iyengar and Henning Krause: Local cohomology and support for triangulated categories. In: Ann. Scient. Éc. Norm. Sup., 4e série, 2009, 575-621 |
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| 2008 | David J. Benson and Henning Krause: Complexes of injective kG-modules. In: Algebra and Number Theory, 2008, 1-30 |
| 2008 | David J. Benson: Idempotent kG-modules with injective cohomology. In: Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, 2008, 1744-1746 |
| 2008 | David J. Benson and Jon F. Carlson: Varieties and cohomology of infinitely generated modules. In: Arch. Math. Basel, 2008, 122-125 |