Archived Publications & Outputs

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Below are a selection of my informal publications, with varying levels of accuracy, all pre-2011. Any mistakes / comments can be emailed to me at andrew{at}ajwilson{dot}co{dot}uk.

Mathematics

• [Apr 2011] Del Pezzo Surfaces and Group Actions on Algebraics Varieties in Magma, Report on my time at Magma
• [Jan 2011] Del Pezzo Surfaces with Many Symmetries, joint paper with Ivan Cheltsov, Journal of Geometric Analysis (10.1007/s12220-011-9286-9)
• [Sep 2010] Smooth Exceptional del Pezzo Surfaces, PhD thesis (abstract)
• [Dec 2006] The Lüroth Problem, First year report for PhD
• [Sep 2006] Birational maps and blowing things up, Talk for the Geometry Club, University of Edinburgh
• [Feb 2005] A Glance Through the Gate: Clifford's Geometrical Algebra, Honours Dissertation for MSci
• [Sep 2004] Creating aperiodic tilings of the plane with exotic rotational symmetry, Report for Nuffield Foundation Undergraduate Research Bursary

Miscellaneous

• [Mar 2010] Finite Subgroups of Cremona Groups, Poster and mug design (with Ivan Cheltsov)
• [Apr 2010] Insights on Ethical Consumption, Poster Design (with Margarita Kominou) for Scottish Knowledge Transfer Impact Poster Competition

Presentations

• [1^st Dec 2010] Computing log canonical thresholds and applications, Geometry Club, University of Edinburgh
• [21^st Jun 2010] Alpha-invariant of Tian and exceptional quotient singularities, Quotient Singularities and Related Problems, University of Edinburgh
• [15^th Mar 2010] Alpha-invariant of Tian and subgroups of Cremona groups, Finite Subgroups of Cremona Groups I, University of Edinburgh
• [1^st Apr 2009] Smooth exceptional del Pezzo surfaces, POSTECH, Pohang, South Korea
• [17^th Jan 2008] Group-invariant log canonical thresholds, POSTECH, Pohang, South Korea
• [28^th Sept 2007] Log canonical thresholds, Geometry Club, University of Edinburgh
• [30^th Sept 2006] Birational maps and blowing things up, Geometry Club, University of Edinburgh
• [23^rd Nov 2006] Be Rational! - Some rationality criterion for varieties, PG Colloquium, University of Edinburgh
• [22^nd Nov 2006] Castelnuovo's Rationality Criterion, Complex algebraic surfaces guest lecture, University of Edinburgh
• [5^th Dec 2006] The Lüroth Problem, First Year PhD Talk, University of Edinburgh

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