ZAIPING LU

Center for Combinatorics
Nankai University
Tianjin 300071, China

Research Interests                                                                        MathSciNet  Combinatorics Net  ATLAS   @ NKU @ CFC

	Algebraic Graph Theory:  Cayley graphs, edge-transitive graphs, symmetric graphs, etc.
	Group Theory:                    Solvable groups, permutation groups

Education

	BSc, 1991, Qufu Normal University
	MSc, 1995, Qufu Normal University
	PhD, 2002, Peking University

Work Experiences

	1995 to 1999,                    Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Qufu Normal University
	2002 to 2003,                    Associate Professor, School of Mathematics, Qufu Normal University
	Aug. 2003 to Sep. 2004,   Visiting Scholar, School of Mathematics and Statistics, the University of Western Australia
	Sep. 2005 to Nov. 2005,  Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, the University of Melbourne

Teaching

	Courses before 2005: Linear Algebra, Basic Algebra, Finite Group Theory, Solvable Groups, Arrangements of Hyperplanes
	Courses in 2006:         Basic Algebra, Representations of Symmetric groups, Groups and Graphs

Publications

	On the supersolvability of QCLT-groups, Northeast. Math. J., Vol.12(1996).  (With P.C. Wang)
	Some sufficient conditions for a finite group to be solvable (Chinese), Acta Math. Sinica, 39(1996).  (With P.C. Wang)
	On Si-quasinormal subgroups, Northeast Math. J., Vol.13(1997).  (With P.C. Wang)
	On finite groups with some semi-normal subgroups (Chinese), Acta Math. Sinica, Vol.41(1998). (With P.C. Wang)
	Finite π-groups with an automorphism of prime order fixed a F-subgroup (Chinese), Acta Math. Sinica, Vol. 43(2000).
	On the automorphism groups of bi-Cayley graphs, J. Peking University (Naturals Science), Vol.39(2003) .
	Cubic semisymmetric graphs constructed from Cayley graphs of degree 4, Graph Theory Notes of New York, 44(2003).(With M.Y. Xu)
	On semisymmetric graphs of order 6p2，Science in China  A, Vol.45(2003). (With C.Q. Wang and M.Y. Xu)
	On the normality of Cayley graphs of order pq, Austral. J. Combin., 27(2003). (With M.Y. Xu)
	Three infinite families of cubic edge-regular graphs (Chinese), Adv. in Math. (Beijing), 33(2004).(With M.Y. Xu)
	Cayley digraphs of finite simple groups with small out-valency, Comm. in Algebra, 32(2004). (With  X.G. Fang, J. Wang and M.Y. Xu)
	On primitive permutation groups with small suborbits and their orbital graphs, J. of Algebra, 279 (2004). (With C.H. Li and D. Marusic)
	Tetravalent edge-transitive Cayley graphs with odd number of vertices, J. of Combin. Theory B, 96 (2006). (With C.H. Li and H. Zhang)
	Further restrictions on the structure of finite CI-groups, J. of  Algebraic Combinatorics, to appear. (With C.H. Li and P.P. Palfy)
	Semisymmetric cubic graphs constructed from bi-Cayley graphs of An, Ars Combinatoria, to appear. (With C.Q. Wang and M.Y. Xu)