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Overview

Peter Jarvis was affiliated with the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom. Their research focused on areas spanning mathematics, physics, and astronomy, particularly covering geometry and topology, algebra and number theory, nuclear and high energy physics, computational theory and mathematics, and statistical and nonlinear physics.

The main topics of their work included algebraic structures and combinatorial models, advanced topics in algebra, advanced algebra and geometry, black holes and theoretical physics, nonlinear waves and solitons, as well as quantum computing algorithms and architecture and quantum-dot cellular automata.

They published extensively in several venues, with the most frequent publications appearing in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical
  • Journal of Mathematical Physics
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • Physica Scripta

Peter Jarvis co-authored works regularly with the following researchers:

  • Jean Thierry-Mieg
  • Gerd Rudolph
  • Luke A. Yates
  • Jerome Germoni
  • Andrew Francis

Some of their recent papers included:

  • Indecomposable doubling for representations of the type I Lie superalgebras sl(m/n) and osp(2/2n), 2022, Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical
  • Quasicharacters, recoupling calculus, and Hamiltonian lattice quantum gauge theory, 2021, Journal of Mathematical Physics

Other significant papers authored by close collaborators with relevance to their field include:

  • Brauer and partition diagram models for phylogenetic trees and forests, 2022, Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • Explicit construction of the finite dimensional indecomposable representations of the simple Lie-Kac SU(2/1) superalgebra and their low level non diagonal super Casimir operators, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Parameter estimation with reluctant quantum walks: a maximum likelihood approach, 2024, Physica Scripta

Best Publications

  • Adult Education and Lifelong Learning : Theory and Practice

    Peter Jarvis

  • Adult learning in the social context

    Peter Jarvis

  • Adult and Continuing Education: Theory and Practice

    Peter Jarvis

  • Towards a comprehensive theory of human learning

    Peter Jarvis

  • The Theory and Practice of Learning

    Peter Jarvis;John Holford;Colin Griffin

  • Reflective practice and nursing

    Peter Jarvis

  • The Practitioner-Researcher: Developing Theory from Practice

    Peter Jarvis

  • Paradoxes of Learning: On Becoming An Individual in Society

    Peter Jarvis

  • The Routledge International Handbook of Lifelong Learning.

    Peter Jarvis

  • Adult education and lifelong learning

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  • Globalisation, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society: Sociological Perspectives

    Peter Jarvis

  • Meaningful and Meaningless Experience: Towards an Analysis of Learning from Life.

    Peter Jarvis

  • Learning to be a Person in Society

    Peter Jarvis

  • The validity and reliability of focus groups as a research method in adult education

    N.E. Chioncel;R.G.W. van der Veen;D.A. Wildemeersch;P. Jarvis

  • Human learning : an holistic approach

    Peter Jarvis;Stella Parker

  • Adult Education and Lifelong Learning

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  • An international dictionary of adult and continuing education

    Peter Jarvis

  • Globalisation, the Learning Society and Comparative Education

    Peter Jarvis

  • The Changing University: Meeting a Need and Needing to Change

    Peter Jarvis

  • Learning in Later Life: An Introduction for Educators and Carers

    Peter Jarvis

  • Learning to be a person in society : Learning to be me

    Peter Jarvis

  • International Perspectives on Lifelong Learning

    John Holford;Peter Jarvis;Colin Griffin

  • The theory & practice of learning

    Peter Jarvis;John Holford;Colin Griffin

  • Adult and Continuing Education: Theory and Practice@@@Analysis and Ideology: Conceptual Essays on the Education of Adults@@@Radical Adult Education: Theory and Practice@@@The Demise of the Liberal Tradition: Two Essays on the Future of British University Adult Education

    Myra Cottingham;Peter Jarvis;K. H. Lawson;J. E. Thomas

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