James Binnie

Research Student/Graduate Tutor

School of Mathematics

: BinnieJA@cardiff.ac.uk
: Abacws, Floor 1, Room 1.26, Senghennydd Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF24 4AG

I am a PhD student in Mathematics in the Geometry, Algebra, Mathematical Physics and Topology research group, under the supervision of Dr John Harvey and Dr Ambrose Yim. Before Cardiff, I completed my Undergraduate degree at Aberdeen in Mathematics and my Masters degree at Nottingham in Pure Mathematics.

The title of my project is "Using finite samples to estimate geometric properties with topological data analysis".

I am funded by a 4 year studenship from the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research.

Tutor for the first year modules, Geometry (2023/24) and Foundations of Mathematics II (2023/24).

Education

2019 – 20 University of Nottingham, MSc in Pure Mathematics.

2015 – 19 University of Aberdeen, BSc (Hons) Mathematics.

Past projects

My Masters dissertation, Class Field Theory, An Axiomatic Approach, was done under the supervision of Ivan Fesenko at Nottingham.
My Undergraduate project, Tropical Polynomial Algebra, was done under the supervision of Zur Izhakian at Aberdeen.

Research themes