Sarah Elizabeth Rees (born 1957) is Professor of Pure Mathematics at

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. Her focus of research is on geometrical, combinatorial and computational aspects of

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. Rees obtained her Ph.D. in 1983 from the

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. Her dissertation, supervised by

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, was ''On Diagram Geometry''. In 2003, Rees was a member of the expert panel for

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's ''In Our Time'' on

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* British women mathematicians Alumni of the University of Oxford Academics of Newcastle University Living people 1957 births {{UK-mathematician-stub