Rate My Professor David Robertson

Dr Robertson's research specializations lie in pure mathematics, particularly operator algebras, functional analysis, topological group theory, and category theory. His work focuses on the study and classification of C*-algebras using combinatorial data such as directed graphs, groups, semigroups, and categories. He teaches the postgraduate course on Measure Theory (MATH502) and has supervised one PhD student as well as several undergraduate research projects; he is open to supervising projects in related areas. Key publications include: Rennie, Adam; Robertson, David; Sims, Aidan. Poincaré duality for Cuntz–Pimsner algebras (2019, Advances in Mathematics, 347, pp. 1112-1172); Robertson, David; Rout, James; Sims, Aidan. KMS states on generalised Bunce-Deddens algebras and their Toeplitz extensions (2018, Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society, 41(1), pp. 123–157); Rennie, Adam; Robertson, David; Sims, Aidan. Groupoid Fell bundles for product systems over quasi-lattice ordered groups (2017, Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 163(3), pp. 561–580); Brownlowe, Nathan; Pask, David; Ramagge, Jacqui; Robertson, David; Whittaker, Michael F. Zappa-Szép product groupoids and C∗-blends (2017, Semigroup Forum, 94(3), pp. 500–519); and Rennie, Adam; Robertson, David; Sims, Aidan. Groupoid algebras as Cuntz-Pimsner algebras (2017, Mathematica Scandinavica, 120(1), pp. 115–123). Earlier notable works include Simplicity of C*-algebras associated to higher-rank graphs (2007, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society) with A Sims, and Zappa–Szép products of semigroups and their C⁎-algebras (2014, Journal of Functional Analysis) with N Brownlowe, J Ramagge, and MF Whittaker.