Professor Michael Murray

Chair of Pure Mathematics

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Academic duties

Responsibility
Elected Member of Faculty Board

Honours supervision

Thesis title	Student	Graduation
Tannaka-Krein Duality	Michael McInerney	2010

Master of Philosophy supervision

Thesis title	Student	Graduation
Quantitative analysis of surface shape	Jack Massey
Loop groups, representations and K-theory	Ryan Mickler
Topics in complex geometric analysis	Michael Albanese
Caloron correspondence and differential K-theory	Vincent Schlegel

Doctor of Philosophy supervision

Thesis title	Student	Graduation
Noncommutative geometry in string and M theory	James Wallbridge	2011
A Fourier-Mukai transform for invariant differential cohomology	Richard Green	2011
Fundamental bigroupoids and 2-covering spaces	David Roberts	2010
Loop groups, Higgs fields and generalised string classes	Raymond Vozzo	2009
Fundamental numerical schemes for parameter estimation in computer vision	Tony Scoleri	2008

Research interests

Research interest	Group
Differential geometry	Geometry
Gauge theory	Geometry
Mathematical physics	Geometry
Mathematics of string theory	Geometry
Differential geometry	Mathematical Physics
Gauge theory	Mathematical Physics
Mathematical physics	Mathematical Physics
Mathematics of string theory	Mathematical Physics

Research seminars

Title	Series
Bibundles	Differential Geometry Seminar
How to see in higher dimensions	Undergraduate Seminar
The caloron transform	Differential Geometry Seminar
Lifting principal bundles and abelian extensions	Differential Geometry Seminar
How to see in many dimensions	Undergraduate Seminar
Equivariant bundle gerbes	Differential Geometry Seminar
Real bundle gerbes	Differential Geometry Seminar