H. Dugald Macpherson is a mathematician and logician. He is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Leeds

University of Leeds

The University of Leeds is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England...

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He obtained his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 1983 for his thesis entitled "Enumeration of Orbits of Infinite Permutation Groups" under the supervision of Peter Cameron

Peter Cameron (mathematician)

Peter Jephson Cameron is an Australian mathematician who works ingroup theory, combinatorics, coding theory, and model theory. He is currently Professor of Mathematics at Queen Mary, University of London....

. In 1997 he was awarded the Junior Berwick Prize

Berwick Prizes

The Berwick Prize and Senior Berwick Prize are two prizes of the London Mathematical Society awarded in alternating years in memory of William Edward Hodgson Berwick, a previous Vice-President of the LMS. Berwick left some money to be given to the society to establish two prizes...

 by the London Mathematical Society

London Mathematical Society

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. He continues to research into permutation groups and model theory

Model theory

In mathematics, model theory is the study of mathematical structures using tools from mathematical logic....

. He is scientist in charge of the MODNET team at the University of Leeds. He co-authored the book "Notes on Infinite Permutation Groups"

External links

• Prof. Macpherson's homepage