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Emeritus Professor, AM, FAA, BSc & MSc Qld , MSc & DPhil Oxf. , DSc W.Aust. , Hon.DSc Prince of Songkla , DHC Libre de Bruxelles , Hon. PhD Yazd , Hon DSc St Andrews, Hon D Math Qld , Hon DSc Primorska , AMusA
The University of Western Australia (M019), 35 Stirling Highway, Room 1.33, Mathematics Building, Perth campus
6009 Perth
Australia
Cheryl E Praeger is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, retiring in 2017 after 40 years service to UWA. She now focuses on research and research supervision in Group Theory and Combinatorics, in her role as Senior Honorary Research Fellow.
Professor Praeger has won many distinguished awards, recognising her as one of Australia's leading mathematicians. She was appointed a member of the Order of Australia for her research and service to mathematics in the country.
Many of Professor Praeger's roles and awards have marked a first time for a woman: President of the Australian Mathematical Society (1992-1994), Lyle Medal of the Australian Academy of Science (2013, first awarded in 1935).
Professor Praeger was also the first pure mathematician, and the first Western Australian recipient of the Prime Minister's Prize for Science (2019); the first pure mathematician to win an ARC Federation Fellowship (2007-2012), or be named as WA Scientist of the Year (2009), or be inducted into the Western Australian Science Hall of Fame (2015).
Professor Praeger's research is on the theory of group actions and their applications in Algebraic Graph Theory and to Combinatorial Designs and other areas of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry; and algorithms for group computation including questions in statistical group theory and algorithmic complexity. Her mathematical work has been published in more than 400 journal articles and five monographs.
Her list of Publications can be found at https://staffhome.ecm.uwa.edu.au/~00007092/research.html
A discussion website for her book 'Permutation groups and cartesian decompositions' with Csaba Schneider in 2018 by Cambridge University Press is here: https://schcs.github.io/WP/index.php/book/
Her research has received continuous funding from the Australian Research Council since the 1990s. Details on ARC grant funding: https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/cheryl-praeger/projects/
Selective international research funding
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As a result of her service and achievements:
Professor Praeger has been heavily involved in the direction of mathematics within Australia, within her roles as member of the Curriculum Development Council of the Commonwealth Schools Commission, Prime Minister's Science Council, WA Science Advisory Committee, and WISET Advisory Committee to the Federal Minister for Science on participation of women in Science, Engineering and Technology.
She promotes participation of women in STEM informally as a mentor and also through her role as Chair of the AASSA Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) committee.
Prior to appointment at The University of Western Australia she held a Research Fellowship at the Australian National University and taught for a semester at the University of Virginia. She taught in the Mathematics and Statistics program at UWA and was Head of the Department of Mathematics 1992-1994, inaugural Dean of Postgraduate Research Studies 1996-1998, Chair Promotions and Tenure Committee 2000-2004, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Computing and Mathematics 2003-2006, ARC Professorial Fellow 2007, and Inaugural Director of the UWA Centre for the Mathematics of Symmetry and Computation 2010-2013.
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Praeger, C. & Niemeyer, A.
1/01/19 → 20/02/22
Project: Research
Praeger, C., Glasby, S. & Niemeyer, A.
1/01/14 → 31/05/19
Project: Research
Praeger, Cheryl (Recipient), Mar 2018
Prize: Honorary award