Jennifer Key

Jennifer D. Key
Born	Jennifer Denise Hicks South Africa
Alma mater	University of the Witwatersrand; University of London
Known for	Group theory; finite geometry; combinatorial designs; coding theory
Notable work	Designs and Their Codes (with Edward F. Assmus Jr., Cambridge University Press, 1992)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Clemson University; Aberystwyth University; University of KwaZulu-Natal; University of the Western Cape
Thesis	Some Topics in Finite Permutation Groups  (1969)
Doctoral advisor	Ascher Wagner

Jennifer Denise Key (née Hicks) is a retired South African mathematician whose research has concerned the interconnections between group theory, finite geometry, combinatorial designs, and coding theory. She is a professor emeritus at Clemson University in the US, and an honorary professor at Aberystwyth University in the UK, and the University of KwaZulu-Natal and University of the Western Cape in South Africa.

Education and career

Key graduated with honours from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1963, and went to the University of London for graduate study in mathematics, earning a master's degree in 1967 and completing her Ph.D. in 1969. Her dissertation, Some Topics in Finite Permutation Groups, was supervised by Ascher Wagner.

She worked as an academic in England, at the University of Surrey, University of Reading, University of Manchester, and University of Birmingham, before moving to the US in 1990 to take a faculty position at Clemson University. She retired as professor emeritus in 2007.

Book

Key is the author, with Edward F. Assmus Jr., of the book Designs and Their Codes (Cambridge University Press, 1992).

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