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Name: George McNinch
Title: Assistant Professor
Departmental Affiliation: Mathematics Department
Degrees: Ph.D. 1996, University of Oregon
Expertise: The structure and representations of algebraic groups
Major Awards: Principal investigator for US National Science Foundation Grant DMS04 37482 (2004 - 2007),
Principal investigator for US National Science Foundation Grant DMS99 70301 (1999 - 2002)
E-mail: george.mcninch@tufts.edu

Other websites: http://www.tufts.edu/~gmcnin01
Scholarship & Research: Some recent papers include:

"On the centralizer of the sum of commuting nilpotent elements", to appear in the volume of J. Pure and Applied Algebra dedicated to the 60th birthday of E. Friedlander. arXiv:math.RT/0412283

"Optimal SL(2)-homomorphisms", Commententarii Mathematici Helvetici 80 (2005) 391-426. math.RT/0309385

"Nilpotent orbits over ground fields of good characteristic", Mathematische Annalen 329 (2004) 49-85, arXiv:math.RT/0209151.

"Sub-principal homomorphisms in positive characteristic", Mathematische Zeitschrift 244 (2003) 433--455. arXiv:math.RT/0108140.

joint with Eric Sommers, "Component groups of unipotent centralizers in good characteristic", J. Algebra 260 (2003) 323-337 (Volume in Honor of the 80th birthday of R. Steinberg). arXiv:math.RT/0204275.

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