Emilio Pierro

Visiting Research Fellow

MSci (Birmingham) PhD (London)

My Master's Thesis was in algebraic geometry, both classical and the French school. I began my PhD in October 2012 under Dr. Ben Fairbairn here at Birkbeck and completed it in October 2015. My research has been in the area of generation of finite simple group with applications toward Beauville surfaces and on the Möbius function of the small Ree groups with applications to enumeration of algebraic and topological objects and probabilistic generation.

Other Mathematical Interests (include...)

Algebraic Geometry, Combinatorics, Dessins d'enfants.

Publications

"Probabilistic generation and enumeration of the small Ree groups" - in preparation.

"The Möbius function of the small Ree groups" - submitted.

"New Examples of Mixed Beauville Groups" (with B. Fairbairn) - (accepted - J. Group Theory).

Talks given

London Algebra Colloquium, Imperial College London - May '15

Séminaire Algèbre et topologie, Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée, Strasbourg - January '15

Seminar in Pure and Applicable Mathematics, Birkbeck (London) - November '14

Junior Algebra/Number Theory/Logic Seminar, University of Cambridge - November '14

Mathematics seminar, The Open University - November '14

Algebra seminar, Queen Mary (London) - November '14

SIGMAP 2014 - July '14

YRM 2014, University of Warwick - July '14

PGTC 2014, University of Birmingham - June '14

University of Southampton, Internal Postgraduate Seminar - May 2014

Groups St. Andrews, University of St. Andrews - August 2013

YRM 2013, University of Edinburgh (poster) - June 2013

Prizes Awarded

School Scholarship - Birkbeck, University of London

How to reach me

Sometimes I am in Room 746 of the Main Birkbeck building on Malet Street. Or you can email me at "e.pi" followed by "erro" and then "@mail.bbk.ac.uk"

Some other interesting places on the internet...

Mathematical...

• J. S. Milne
• Tim Gowers
• TeX Users Group
• ATLAS of Finite Simple Groups
• GAP and the Group Theory Manual
• London Mathematical Society
• "A Marvelous Proof"
• London Algebra Colloquium
• Birkbeck Seminars in Pure and Applicable Mathematics
• QMUL Combinatorics Study Group
• QMUL Pure Mathematics Colloquium
• IBM's Ponder This

Various UoL Library Catalogues

• Birkbeck
• UCL
• KCL
• QMUL

Indispensable

• Google Maps
• TFL
• National Rail

Noteworthy

• TED
• Open Culture
• Letters of Note
• Retronaut
• A Daily Dose of Architecture
• XKCD
• John K's blog
• Kate Beaton
• Garfield Minus Garfield
• The Perry Bible Fellowship

Non-Mathematical Interests

You can see my musical interests here and hear some of my musical tinkering, here and there. I also enjoy languages/linguistics/etymology/etc.

People

Tony Gardiner, Corneliu Hoffman, Chris Good, Kay Magaard, Sergey Shpectorov, Peter Cameron, Rob Wilson, Martin Liebeck.