Professor Martin Bridson

Professor Martin Bridson

Professor Martin Bridson

MA, MS, PhD

  • Whitehead Professor of Mathematics
  • Chair of Research Committee

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eMail: Martin [dot] Bridson [-at-] maths [dot] ox [dot] ac [dot] uk
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Phone Number(s):

Reception/Secretary: +44 1865 273525
Direct: +44 1865 273528

Office: SGF15

Departmental Address:

Mathematical Institute
24-29 St Giles'
Oxford
OX1 3LB
England

Research Interests: 

Geometric Group Theory

Geometry of non-positively curved spaces

Low-dimensional topology

Prizes, Awards and Scholarships: 

Abel Lecturer 2009

EPSRC Senior Fellowship 2007-12

Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid 2006

Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award 2006

London Mathematical Society Whitehead Prize 1999

EPSRC Advanced Fellowship 1997-2002

Major/Recent Publications: 

Bridson, Martin R.; Haefliger, André Metric spaces of non-positive curvature. Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften  319. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1999. xxii+643 pp. ISBN: 3-540-64324- MR1744486 (2000k:53038)

Bridson, Martin R. Non-positive curvature and complexity for finitely presented groups. International Congress of Mathematicians. Vol. II, 961--987, Eur. Math. Soc., Zürich, 2006. MR2275631 (2008a:20071)

Bridson, Martin R.; Grunewald, Fritz J. Grothendieck's problems concerning profinite completions and representations of groups. Ann. of Math. (2) 160 (2004), no. 1, 359--37. MR2119723 (2005k:20069)

Bridson, Martin R.; Howie, James; Miller, Charles F., III; Short, Hamish; Subgroups of direct products of limits groups,  Ann. of Math. (2), 170 (2009), no. 2, in press 

Alonso, Juan M.; Bridson, Martin R. Semihyperbolic groups. Proc. London Math. Soc. (3) 70 (1995), no. 1, 56--114. MR1300841 (95j:20033) 

Bridson, Martin R. Fractional isoperimetric inequalities and subgroup distortion. J. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1999), no. 4, 1103--1118.  MR1678924 (2001a:20062)

Bridson, Martin R. Geodesics and curvature in metric simplicial complexes. Group theory from a geometrical viewpoint (Trieste, 1990), 373--463, World Sci. Publ., River Edge, NJ, 1991.  MR1170372 (94c:57040)

Brady, N.; Bridson, M. R. There is only one gap in the isoperimetric spectrum. Geom. Funct. Anal. 10 (2000), no. 5, 1053--1070. MR1800063 (2001j:20046)

Bridson, M. R.; Gersten, S. M. The optimal isoperimetric inequality for torus bundles over the circle. Quart. J. Math. Oxford Ser. (2) 47 (1996), no. 185, 1--23. MR1380947 (97c:20047)


 

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