Professor Martin Bridson

Professor Martin Bridson

Professor Martin Bridson

MA, MS, PhD

  • Whitehead Professor of Mathematics
  • Vice Chairman of the Mathematical Institute

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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 Prize Lecturer 2009

EPSRC Senior Fellowship 2007-12

Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid 2006

Clay Senior Scholar in Residence, PCMI, 2012

Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award 2012

Britton Lectures 2012

Erwin Schrodinger Lecture 2011

Marker Lectures 2009

London Mathematical Society Whitehead Prize 1999

Forder Lecturer 2005

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. 3, 1447–1467. MR2600879

Bridson, Martin R.; Groves, Daniel. The quadratic isoperimetric inequality for mapping tori of free group automorphisms. Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 203 (2010), no. 955MR2590896

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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