Martin Liebeck (born 23 September 1954) is a professor of

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whose research interests include

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Career and research

Martin Liebeck studied mathematics at the

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earning a First Class BA in 1976, an MSc in 1977, and a D.Phil. in 1979, with the Dissertation ''Finite Permutation Groups'' under

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In January 1991 he was appointed Professor at Imperial College London and became Head of the Pure Mathematics section there in 1997.Curriculum Vitae
Martin Liebeck Liebeck has published over 150 research articles and 10 books.
at Imperial College London: Publications His research interests include

algebraic groups In mathematics, an algebraic group is an algebraic variety endowed with a group structure that is compatible with its structure as an algebraic variety. Thus the study of algebraic groups belongs both to algebraic geometry and group theory. Many ...

permutation groups In mathematics, a permutation group is a group ''G'' whose elements are permutations of a given set ''M'' and whose group operation is the composition of permutations in ''G'' (which are thought of as bijective functions from the set ''M'' to its ...

, and

finite simple groups In mathematics, the classification of finite simple groups states that every finite simple group is cyclic, or alternating, or in one of 16 families of groups of Lie type, or one of 26 sporadic groups. The list below gives all finite simple gr ...

. He was elected Fellow of the

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(AMS) in 2019, and was awarded the

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’s Pólya Prize in 2020. In February of 2020 he and

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organized a programme titled "Groups, Representations and Applications" at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Personal life

Martin is the son of mathematician Hans Liebeck and mathematics educationalist

Pamela Liebeck Pamela Liebeck (née Lawrence, 1930–2012) was a British mathematician and mathematics educator, the author of two books on mathematics. Life Liebeck was born in Bromley on 11 July 1930, grew up in Surrey, and read mathematics at Somerville Coll ...

. His wife Ann is a professional musician, and they have two sons Jonathan and Matthew. Martin's main hobbies are playing tennis, especially doubles, and the violin, particularly chamber music.

Selected publications

Papers

* 1990: "The maximal factorizations of the finite simple groups and their automorphism groups", Memoirs Amer. Math. Soc. 86, pp. 1–151 (with C.E. Praeger and Jan Saxl) * 1995: "The probability of generating a finite simple group", Geom. Dedicata 56, 103-113 (with A. Shalev) * 1998: "On the subgroup structure of classical groups", Invent. Math. 134, 427-453 (with G.M. Seitz) * 1999: "Simple groups, permutation groups, and probability", J. Amer. Math. Soc. 12, 497-520 (with A. Shalev) * 2001: "Diameters of finite simple groups: sharp bounds and applications", Annals of Math. 154, 383-406 (with A. Shalev) * 2004: "The maximal subgroups of positive dimension in exceptional algebraic groups", Memoirs Amer. Math. Soc. 169, no. 802, pp. 1–227 (with G.M. Seitz) * 2010: "The Ore Conjecture", J. European Math. Soc., 12, 939–1008 (with E. O’Brien, A. Shalev, P. Tiep) * 2018: "Character bounds for finite groups of Lie type", Acta Math. 221, 1–57 (with R. Bezrukavnikov, A. Shalev and P. Tiep) * 2019: "Algorithms determining finite simple images of finitely presented groups", Inventiones Math. 218, 623–648 (with M. Bridson, D.M. Evans and D. Segal)

Books

* 1990: ''The Subgroup Structure of the Finite Classical Groups'', London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Series No. 129, Cambridge Univ. Press, 303pp. (with P. Kleidman) * 2000: ''A Concise Introduction to Pure Mathematics'', CRC Press, 2000; Second Edition, 2005; Third Edition, 2010; Fourth Edition, 2015 * 2012: ''Unipotent and Nilpotent Classes in Simple Algebraic Groups and Lie Algebras'', Math. Surveys and Monographs Series, Vol. 180, American Math. Soc., 380pp. (with G.M. Seitz)

Awards and distinctions

* Johnson University Prize, Oxford University, 1979Professor Martin Liebeck
Imperial College London: Honours and Memberships * Senior Mathematical Prize, Oxford University, 1979 * ISI Highly Cited Researcher, 2011 * Simons Research Professor, MSRI 2018 * The President's Award for Excellence in Leadership, 2019 * Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2019List of Fellows
American Mathematical Society *

(LMS) Pólya Prize in 2020Prizes and Awards
Imperial College London

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