Werner Nickel
Address:
Fachbereich Mathematik
,
TU Darmstadt
, Schloßgartenstraße 7, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany.
Brief CV:
Diplom in Mathematics with Computer Science as minor from the
RWTH Aachen
, 1988;
for the Diplom thesis
Endliche Körper in dem gruppentheoretischen Programmsystem GAP
(compressed PostScript [205k] in German).
PhD in Mathematics from the
Australian National University
, 1994;
for the dissertation
Central extensions of polycyclic groups
(gzipped PostScript [270k] ).
Current Position:
In November 2007 I took up a position at the Hesse Ministry of Science and Art.
Research Interests:
Computational group theory
Theory and computational aspects of polycyclic groups, a
GAP 4 package
for computation with polycyclic groups is available.
GAP: Groups, Algorithms and Programming
Software:
ANU Nilpotent Quotient Algorithm
GAP 4 package for computation with
polycyclic groups
ANU PQ Gap 4 Share Package
Useful and interesting mathematical links
The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
by John O'Connor and Edmund Robertson.
The Group Pub Forum
E.A. O'Brien
maintains a BibTeX bibliography of
references in algebra
(200k) which is also available in
gzipped form
(40k).
A PostScript file (262k) with a
survey
of Computational Group Theory by Akos Seress is available. A
shorter version
has been published in the
Notices
of the
AMS
.
AMS
AustMS
DMV
EMS
LMS
Dept of Math
Engel Groups
nickel
at
mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de
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