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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Prime Minister's Prize for Science, Australia For her fundamental work in group theory and combinatorics
  • 2013 - Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal, Australian Academy of Science
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
  • 1996 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science

Overview

Cheryl E. Praeger is affiliated with the University of Western Australia in Australia. Their research primarily spans mathematics, computer science, and engineering, with significant contributions in discrete mathematics and combinatorics, electrical and electronic engineering, artificial intelligence, geometry and topology, and computational theory and mathematics. The main focus areas include finite group theory research, graph theory and CDMA systems, coding theory and cryptography, geometric and algebraic topology, limits and structures in graph theory, graph theory and applications, and advanced topics in algebra.

The recent scholarly work of Cheryl E. Praeger includes the following publications:

  • On flag-transitive 2-(v,k,2) designs, 2020, Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A
  • The geometry of diagonal groups, 2021, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
  • Block-transitive designs based on grids, 2022, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society
  • Rank three innately transitive permutation groups and related 2-transitive groups, 2023, Innovations in incidence geometry
  • Subgroups of classical groups that are transitive on subspaces, 2023, Journal of Algebra

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Cheryl E. Praeger include:

  • Alice Devillers
  • S. P. Glasby
  • Michael Giudici
  • Carmen Amarra
  • Alice C. Niemeyer

The researcher has published extensively in the following academic venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A
  • Journal of Algebra
  • Designs Codes and Cryptography
  • Journal of Combinatorial Designs

Cheryl E. Praeger is also associated with book publications, including a work published by Springer International Publishing titled 2018 MATRIX Annals released in 2020.

Their scholarly achievements include receiving several awards such as:

  • Prime Minister's Prize for Science, Australia, 2019, for fundamental work in group theory and combinatorics
  • Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal, Australian Academy of Science, 2013
  • Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2013
  • Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, 1996

Best Publications

  • On the O'Nan-Scott theorem for finite primitive permutation groups

    Martin W. Liebeck;Cheryl E. Praeger;Jan Saxl

  • A classification of the maximal subgroups of the finite alternating and symmetric groups

    Martin W Liebeck;Cheryl E Praeger;Jan Saxl

  • An O'Nan-Scott Theorem for finite quasiprimitive permutation groups, and an application to 2-arc transitive graphs.

    Cheryl E. Praeger

  • The maximal factorizations of the finite simple groups and their automorphism groups

    Martin W. Liebeck;Cheryl E. Praeger;Jan Saxl

  • Finite normal edge-transitive Cayley graphs

    Cheryl E. Praeger

  • On transitive Cayley graphs of groups and semigroups

    Andrei V. Kelarev;Cheryl E. Praeger

  • Vertex-primitive graphs of order a product of two distinct primes

    Cheryl E. Praeger;Ming-Yao Xu

  • Finite Transitive Permutation Groups and Bipartite Vertex-Transitive Graphs

    Cheryl E. Praeger

  • Analysing Finite Locally s-arc Transitive Graphs

    Michael Giudici;Cai Heng Li;Cheryl E. Praeger

  • Transitive Subgroups of Primitive Permutation Groups

    Martin W. Liebeck;Cheryl E. Praeger;Jan Saxl

  • Linear Groups with Orders Having Certain Large Prime Divisors

    Robert Guralnick;Tim Penttila;Cheryl E. Praeger;Jan Saxl

  • On the orders of Primitive Permutation Groups

    Cheryl E. Praeger;Jan Saxl

  • On Finite Affine 2-Arc Transitive Graphs

    A.A. Ivanov;Cheryl E. Praeger

  • The Inclusion Problem for Finite Primitive Permutation Groups

    Cheryl E. Praeger

  • A Recognition Algorithm for Special Linear Groups

    Peter M. Neumann;Cheryl E. Praeger

  • Finite Permutation Groups

    Cheryl E. Praeger

  • Symmetric Graphs of Order a Product of Two Distinct Primes

    C.E. Praeger;R.J. Wang;M.Y. Xu

  • Fintte two-arc transitive graphs admitting a suzuki simple group

    X.G. Fang;Cheryl Praeger

  • Cyclic Matrices Over Finite Fields

    Peter M. Neumann;Cheryl E. Praeger

  • Vertex-transitive graphs which are not Cayley graphs, I

    Brendan D. McKay;Cheryl E. Praeger

  • A characterization of a class of symmetric graphs of twice prime valency

    C. E. Praeger;M.-Y. Xu

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin W. Liebeck
Martin W. Liebeck Imperial College London
Peter J. Cameron
Peter J. Cameron University of St Andrews
Robert M. Guralnick
Robert M. Guralnick University of Southern California
Jan Saxl
Jan Saxl University of Cambridge
Marston Conder
Marston Conder University of Auckland
Nicholas C. Wormald
Nicholas C. Wormald Monash University
Brendan D. McKay
Brendan D. McKay Australian National University
Chris Godsil
Chris Godsil University of Waterloo
Rob Gray
Rob Gray University of East Anglia
Terence P. Speed
Terence P. Speed Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

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