Mr Dan Mcveagh

Overview

Office hours

By arrangement: email d.mcveagh@bbk.ac.uk

Qualifications

• BSc (HONS) Mathematics, University College London, 1992
• MSc Mathematics, Birkbeck College, University of London, 2015
• PG/CE, Institute of Education, 2008

Administrative responsibilities

• Programme Director for Undergraduate Mathematics & Statistics Programmes

Research

Research interests

• Group Theory

Research overview

I am currently engaged in a PhD project concerning finite groups.

Questions of interest:

• how many square roots can a group element have?
• how many cubed roots?
• more generally, for a prime number p, how many pth roots?
• what is the structure of the squaring digraph of a finite group?

Supervision and teaching

Teaching

Teaching modules

• Problems in Mathematics (BUEM009S6)
• Abstract Algebra 1 (BUEM123H6)
• Abstract Algebra 2 (BUEM124H6)
• Algebra 1 (EMMS097S4)

Publications