Faculty

• Pedro V. Silva

  pvsilva@fc.up.pt

• Research Area

  Combinatorial (Semi)group Theory, Language Theory and Combinatorics

• Institution

  University of Porto

• PhD

  Institution: University of Glasgow
  Year: 1992

• Main research publications

  • On the topology of a boolean representable simplicial complex (with Stuart Margolis, John Rhodes) , Internat. J. Algebra Comput. 27 (2017)
  • Boolean Representations of Simplicial Complexes and Matroids (with John Rhodes) , Springer Monographs in Mathematics , Springer, 2015
    ISBN: 9783319151137
  • A noncommutative extension of Mahler’s theorem on interpolation series (with Jean-Eric Pin) , Europ. J. Combin. 36 (2014)
  • Fixed points of endomorphisms of virtually free groups , Pacific J. Math. 263 (2013)
  • The spectra of lamplighter groups and Cayley machines (with Mark Kambites and Benjamin Steinberg) , Geometriae Dedicata 120 (2006)

• PhD Students

  • Nasim Karimi Reaching the minimum ideal in a finite semigroup co-supervision with Jorge Almeida, 2015
  • Nádia Maria Gonçalves de Almeida Pinto General Algorithms for Computing Genetic Kinship Likelihoods co-supervision with António Amorim, 2012
  • António Augusto Veloso da Costa Gamma-products of Monoids and Semigroups 2003

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