Frank Neumann

Lecturer in Pure Mathematics Department of Mathematics, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH. office: F25, First Floor, Mathematics Building tel: +44 (0)116 252 2722 fax: +44 (0)116 252 3604 e-mail: F.Neumann(at)mcs(dot)le(dot)ac(dot)uk

• Research Interests: My main research area is algebraic topology and homotopy theory. I am also very much interested in applications of homotopy theory to algebraic geometry and algebraic K-theory.
• Research Activities: I am a member of the pure mathematics group at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Leicester and a member of the Transpennine Topology Triangle, a collaborative seminar between Leicester, Manchester and Sheffield, funded by the London Mathematical Society. I organised some of our meetings in Leicester. I am also member of the London Mathematical Society LMS and the American Mathematical Society AMS and a reviewer for Mathematical Reviews and Zentralblatt and the Leicester representative for the LMS midlands region and for the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.
• Research Seminars: I am the main organiser of our weekly Leicester Pure Mathematics Colloquium. Recently we also run a Geometry and Topology Working Seminar on Etale groupoids, Part I and a continuation on Etale groupoids, Part II
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• Research Meetings: I was the organiser of one of the Midlands Universities Pure Mathematics Seminar (MUPMS) and together with John Hunton and Dietrich Notbohm I organised the 17th British Topology Meeting in Leicester. I was also a scientific organiser of the CIMMA2005 Mathematical Congress in Almeria.
Currently I am a main organiser of the LMS Midlands Regional Meeting and Workshop on Teichmueller theory and Cluster Algebras in Leicester from May 15-18, 2006.
• Teaching: During the academic year 2005/2006 I am teaching the pure mathematics module MA3151 Topology.
• Administration: I am the admissions tutor of the Department of Mathematics and a member of the recruitment commitee. Have a look at our online admissions webpage for information about admissions requirements and procedures. I am currently also the editor of our departmental news letter The Wrangler.