About Me
I am currently a Senior Lecturer in Pure Mathematics at Loughborough University
From 2019-2023 I was a Lecturer in Pure Mathematics at the University of Leicester.
From 2013-2019 I was a Heilbronn Fellow, first at the University of Bristol and then at the University of Leicester.
I completed my DPhil in 2013 at the University of Oxford under the supervision of David Craven and Michael Collins.
I completed undergraduate and masters degrees in music and mathematics at the University of Birmingham between 2005 and 2009.
My Erdős number is 2.
Research interests
I am interested in interactions between algebraic topology, group theory, representation theory and combinatorics. Most recently I have become interested in using the theory of ℓ-compact groups to develop a modular representation theory for spetses and related structures. Here is a paper I cowrote with Radha Kessar and Gunter Malle on that subject. With Chris Parker I have written some code to compute with and classify fusion systems.
I organised a conference on topological methods in group representation theory with Frank Neumann in November 2019.
Travel
Movement and Symmetry in Graphs, BIRS, Banff, November 24-29 2024
Topology, Representation Theory and Higher Structures, Skye, June 2024
Representations of Finite Groups, Oberwolfach, April 16-21 2023
Groups, representations and applications: new perspectives, INI, Cambridge, May 8 - 14, May 22 - 28, June 19 - 23 and Jul 24 - 29, 2022
Workshop on Homotopy Theory and Group Theory (IRP Higher Homotopical Structures), CRM Workshop, Barcelona, July 05-09 2021
CanaDAM 2021, Online, May 25-28 2021
Groups, representations and applications: new perspectives, INI, Cambridge, March 01-14 2020
Groups and Geometries, BIRS, Banff, August 25-30 2019
Classifying spaces of finite groups of Lie type, Copenhagen, July 2019
Representations of Finite Groups, Oberwolfach, March 2019
Group representation theory and applications, MSRI, Berkeley, March 2018
Contact
Email: j.p.semeraro(at)lboro.ac.uk
Office: SCH2.03, Schofield Building, Loughborough University