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Jamie Smith

PhD Student, University of York.

jamie.smith@york.ac.uk


Current Roles

PhD Student of Victoria Gould

Graduate Teaching Assistant for Groups, Rings and Fields

PGR Rep for the Department of Mathematics EDI Committee

Team Captain of the University of York Archery Club

ArcheryGB Session Coach


Research Interests

I am interested in aspects of transformation monoids and permutation groups. I am currently researching the structure of endomorphism monoids of certain semigroups.

If we let S be some semigroup and End(S) be its endomorphism monoid then we can define End2(S) as the endomorphism monoid of End(S). We then define End i(S) as End(End i-1(S)) for all natural numbers i. This sequence is called the endomorphism tower of S. I am currently looking at the patterns that arise in these endomorphism towers for different S.


Teaching

I am a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Mathematics at the University of York. I have taught on the following modules:

- Groups, Rings and Fields

- Introduction to Pure Mathematics

- Mathematical Programming and Skills


Hobbies

Any spare time I get is often given over to archery. I am currenrly a Coach and the Team Captain at the University of York Archery Club.