Iain Gordon,

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, is a mathematician, currently the Professor of Mathematics and the Head of School of Mathematics at the

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. His field of specialisation is representation theory and noncommutative algebra.

Education and Career

Gordon studied mathematics as an undergraduate at the

University of Bristol , mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'') , established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter , type ...

(1991–94), took

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at Magdalene College, the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

(1994–95), and completed his PhD on ''Representations of Quantised Function Algebras at Roots of Unity'' at the

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under the supervision of Ken Brown (1995–1998). He was th
Seggie Brown Fellow
in Edinburgh (1998–99) and a postdoc at the Bielefeld University, the University of Antwerp and MSRI (1999–2000). He was a lecturer and then reader in the Department of Mathematics at the

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(2000–2006), and since then has been the Professor of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. In 2005, Gordon was awarded the

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of the

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for his article ''Baby Verma modules for rational Cherednik algebras''. In 2008 he was awarded a 5-year EPSRC Leadership Fellowship to support his research on ''Rigid Structure in Noncommutative, Geometric and Combinatorial Problems''. In 2010 he was elected as a Fellow of the

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and was an

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in Hyderabad on ''Rational Cherednik Algebras''. In 2014 he won the Edinburgh University Student Association's Van Heyningen Award for Teaching in Science and Engineering. Since 2018, he has been the Principal Investigator on a 6-year EPSRC Programme Grant with Arend Bayer, Tom Bridgeland, Agata Smoktunowicz and Michael Wemyss on ''Enhancing Representation Theory, Noncommutative Algebra and Geometry''. He was elected as Vice President of the

in 2019.LMS Election Results 2019
/ref> He has been Head of School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh since 2014.

References

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