• Peter C. Austin
  Products of involutions in Chevalley groups
  University of Toronto, February 1997
  Thesis title: Products of involutions in the Chevalley groups of type $F$₄(K)
  Resulting publications:
  
  1. A geometric proof of the bireflectionality of the Weyl group of type $F$₄(K). J. Geometry 60 (1997) 1-6.
  2. Products of involutions in the groups of Lie type $F$₄(K). Comm. Algebra 27 (1999) no. 2, 557-575.
  3. Products of involutions in the finite Chevalley groups of type $F$₄(K). (with E.W.Ellers) Comm. Algebra
  Present position: Associate Scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, North York, Ontario,
  and Lecturer, Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

• Catherine Stanley-Albarda
  Factorization of matrices over rings
  University of Toronto, February 1995
  Thesis title: The decomposition of automorphisms of modules over rings
  Resulting publications:
  A comparison of length definitions for maps of modules over local rings. J. Geometry 53 (1995) 191-200.
  Present position: Lecturer, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia

• Br. L. Raphael Patton, FSC
  Characterizations of unitary groups
  University of Toronto,Spring 1977
  Thesis title: Characterizations by length in generators of unitary groups over a skewfield with characteristic not two
  Resulting publications:
  Zur Geschichte der Erzeugung von Bewegungsgruppen. (with E. W. Ellers) Mitt. Math. Gesellschaft Hamburg 10 2 (1973) 109-223.
  Present position: Professor, St.Mary's College of California

• Georg Günther
  Characterization of orthogonal groups
  University of Toronto 1974
  Thesis title: A geometric characterization of finite-dimensional orthogonal groups for characteristic 2
  Resulting publications:
  
  1. A geometric characterization of orthogonal groups for characteristic 2.Geometriae Dedicata5 (1976), no. 3, 321-346.
  2. Singular isometries in orthogonal groups.Canad. Math. Bull. 20 (1977), no. 2, 189-198.
  3. Defining relations in orthogonal groups of characteristic two.(with W. Nolte) Canad. J. Math.31 (1979), no. 6, 1217-1246.
  Present position:Professor, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook

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