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Dr Neil Andrew Gordon

SimVis Research Group
Department of Computer Science
n.a.gordon @ dcs.hull.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1482 465038
Fax: +44 (0)1482 466666

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Background

Dr Gordon is a lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Hull. He joined the University in 1994 as a research assistant in mathematics, and later worked as an IT advisor in the Mathematics department, until 2000 when he joined the department of Computer Science as a lecturer. He holds a BSc in joint Computer Science and Mathematics, and a PhD degree in Applied Mathematics, as well as a Higher Education Teaching Certificate. Dr Gordon is a University Teaching Fellow and a member of the national Higher Education Academy.

Current Responsibilities

• Departmental Selector
• MSc Director
• Staff Development Officer
• Web team coordinator
• Programme Leader for Computer Science with Business Information Engineering
• Module leader for Quantitative Methods for Computing and for E-commerce and E-business

Research Interests

• Finite geometry
• Computer algebra
• Computer-based learning
• Mathematical modeling and visualization

Recent Publications

N.A. Gordon, Experiences of embedding Information Technology into discipline based teaching , Innovations in Teaching And Learning in Information and Computer Sciences, 4 (2005) 1-9

N.A. Gordon, R Shaw and J.G. Maks, 2005 Partial spreads in PG(4,2) and flats in PG(9,2) external to the Grassmannian G_{1,4,2}, Discrete Mathematics, 301 (2005), 137-146

N.A. Gordon, T.M. Jarvis and R. Shaw, Aspects of the linear groups GL(n,2), Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing,
53 (2005), 13-31

R. Shaw, J.G. Maks and N.A. Gordon, The classification of flats in PG(9,2) which are external to the Grassmannian G_{1,4,2}, Designs, Codes and Cryptography, 34 (2005) 203-227

R. Shaw and N.A. Gordon. The Quintic Grassmannian G_(1,4,2) in PG(9, 2), Designs, Codes and Cryptography, 32 (2004), p381-396.

N.A. Gordon, Wither Maths, Whither Science, Teaching Mathematics and its Applications: An International Journal of the IMA, Volume 23, Issue 1, March 2004. pp 15-32.

N.A. Gordon, Editor of the Proceedings of the 2003 Undergraduate Mathematics Teaching Conference, 2003, University of Birmingham Press.

N.A. Gordon. Geometric and Algebraic Canonical Forms, Applications of Geometric Algebra in Computer Science and Engineering, Eds L.Dorst, C.Doran and J.Lasenby, Birkhauser, Berlin, 2002, pp 91-98.

Dexter Booth, Richard Cameron, Cosette Crisan, Peter Edwards, Sue Forder, Neil Gordon, Mike Howkins, Walter Middleton, Brian Smith, Providing Foundation Level Mathematics in a University Environment, Proceedings of the 28th UMTC Conference, 2002. Ed D.Poutney. pp 99-112. The University of Birmingham Press.

N.A. Gordon, J.P. Killingbeck and M.R.M. Witwit, Numerical Determination of the Titchmarsh-Weyl m-coefficient, Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, 40 No. 1 (2000), pp108-117.