Nuno Maria Gonçalves Soares Franco

nmf@dmat.uevora.pt

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. Thesis: "Combinatorial methods in Garside and Artin groups",
                           Université de Bourgogne, May 2005,
                           supervised by Prof. Luis Paris and Alain Jaquemard

Research Interests:  Group Theory, Computational Algebra

Scientific Projects:

• "Algebra, Geometry and Topology", FCT/CIMA-UE, Project nº1228.

• Project CACAO in LORIA, as non permanent member

Personal  Webpage:   http://evunix.uevora.pt/~nmf/

Publications:

• N, Franco, J, González-Meneses,  "Computation of the Normalizer of a Braid", Actas 7º Encuentro de Algebra Computational e Aplicaciones EACA 2001.

• N. Franco, J, González-Meneses,  "Word generation in Garside monoids with homogeneous relations" to appear in Actas 8º Encuentro de Algebra Computational e Aplicaciones EACA 2002.

• N. Franco, J, González-Meneses,  "Conjugacy problem for braid groups and Garside groups", Journal of Algebra 266 (1) 2003, 112-132.

• N. Franco, J, González-Meneses,  "Computation of centralizers in braid groups and Garside groups",

  Revista Matemática Iberoamericana, 19 (2), 2003, 367-384.

• N, Franco e L, Paris , “On a theorem of Artin, II”, aceite para publicação no “Journal of Group Theory”.

• N, Franco, “Conjugacy problem for subgroups with applications to Artin groups and braid type groups”, aceite para publicação nas “Communications in Algebra”.