Contact Details
Dr. Sarah Whitehouse
School of Mathematics and Statistics
Hicks
Building
University of Sheffield
S3 7RH
England
Tel. 00 44 (0)114 222 3870
Fax. 00 44 (0)114 222 3809
Email: s.whitehouse\at\sheffield.ac.uk
I am a Reader in Pure Mathematics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics (SoMaS) at the University of Sheffield.
Teaching
In the Autumn Semester of 2012-2013, I taught MAS334 Combinatorics. My homepage for MAS334 Combinatorics is here.
In the Spring Semester of 2012-2013, I will co-teach MAS111 Mathematics Core II. The homepage for MAS111 is here.
In 2012-2013 I am supervising two level 4 MMath projects, on Aperiodic Tilings and on Combinatorics of the Symmetric Group.
Research
My field of research is algebraic topology. Here is my publication list.
Andrew Stacey worked with me as an RA on an EPSRC funded project on stable and unstable operations in higher K-theory. He is now in Trondheim, Norway.
Constanze Roitzheim worked with me as an RA funded by an EPSRC grant, held jointly with Andy Baker of the University of Glasgow. The project was "Rigidity Theorems in Stable Homotopy Theory". She is now based in Kent.
I currently have one Ph.D. student, Khairia Mira. M-J Strong completed her Ph.D. thesis with me in 2008, Tony Hignett in 2009 and Laura Stanley in 2011.
General information for prospective graduate students is available. If you are interested in doing a Ph.D. with me, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
Links to the homepages of my coauthors: Francis Clarke, Martin Crossley, Imma Gálvez, Muriel Livernet, Alan Robinson, Constanze Roitzheim, Andrew Stacey.
Talks
Here are slides from some talks I have given. (I mostly give blackboard talks, so this is a random selection where I happened to use slides.)
"Algebraic structures in topology" LMS Prospects in Mathematics Meeting, Manchester, December 2012.
"Infinite
sums of Adams operations
"Infinite
sums of Adams operations
"Stable and unstable operations in p-local K-theory", International Mediterranean Congress of Mathematics, Almería, June 2005.
"On the KU_(p) local stable homotopy catgeory", Conference on The Arithmetic of Structured Ring Spectra, Rosendal, Norway, August 2005.
"Stable and unstable operations in mod p cohomology theories", Complex cobordism in homotopy theory: its impact and prospects, (the Ravenel & Wilson birthday conference), Johns Hopkins, March 2007.
Here are some documents related to my lectures at the LMS-EPSRC Instructional Course on Algebraic Topology at Swansea, July 2005. Outline. Lecture Notes. Problems.
Here is a slide version of a beamer talk on Elliptic Cohomology at the Durham Prospects in Mathematics Meeting in December 2006.
Conferences and Seminars
I maintain the British Topology conference page.
Transpennine Topology Triangle. This is a joint topology seminar with vertices at Leicester, Manchester and Sheffield. I am the grant-holder.
Updated: 3 January 2013