Sarah Rees

For the Welsh teacher, poet, editor and temperance campaigner, see Sarah Jane Rees. For the Australian architect, see Sarah Lynn Rees.

Sarah Elizabeth Rees (born 1957)[1] is Professor of Pure Mathematics at Newcastle University. Her focus of research is on geometrical, combinatorial and computational aspects of group theory.[2][3]

Rees obtained her Ph.D. in 1983 from the University of Oxford. Her dissertation, supervised by Peter Cameron, was On Diagram Geometry.[4]

In 2003, Rees was a member of the expert panel for BBC Radio 4's In Our Time on infinity.[5]

Rees is the daughter of mathematician David Rees.

  1. ^ Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2018-12-01.
  2. ^ "Staff Profile - Mathematics, Statistics and Physics - Newcastle University". www.ncl.ac.uk.
  3. ^ "Sarah Rees' Home Page". www.mas.ncl.ac.uk.
  4. ^ Sarah Rees at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ "Infinity, In Our Time - BBC Radio 4". BBC.