Members of the topology group
Permanent Faculty |
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Martin Bridson
Geometric group theory, non-positive curvature |
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Christopher Douglas
Algebraic and geometric topology, 3 and 4-dimensional TQFT, elliptic cohomology |
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Cornelia Drutu
Geometric group theory, ergodic theory, applications to number theory |
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Marc Lackenby
Topology and geometry of 3-dimensional manifolds, group theory |
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Panos Papazoglou Geometric group theory |
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Graeme Segal
K-Theory, field theories, applications to physics |
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Ulrike Tillmann
Algebraic topology, K-theory, applications to quantum field theory |
Postdocs and visitors |
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Will Cavendish |
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John Mackay |
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Shengkui Ye |
Research students |
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| Henry Bradford
Geometric group theory |
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| Owen Cotton-Barratt
Geometric group theory |
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| Antonio De Capua |
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| David Hume
Geometric group theory |
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| Rosalinda Juer |
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| Robert Kropholler |
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| Benno Kuckuck
Geometric group theory |
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| Richard Manthorpe |
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| Martin Palmer
Algebraic topology |
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| Andrew Sale
Geometric group theory |
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| Hemanth Saratchandran |
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| Alessandro Sisto |
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| Thomas Wasserman |
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| Hongyun Yon |
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Retired members
- Wilson Sutherland -- Homotopy theoretic study of gauge groups and vector bundles.
- Glenys Luke -- Global analysis.
- Ioan James -- Homotopy theory; history of topology.
- Brian Steer -- Gauge theory; the geometry of manifolds; global analysis.
- Dan Quillen -- K-Theory; cyclic homology; applications to physics.
Former members
- Richard Wade -- Now a postdoc at the University of Utah
- Jessica Banks -- Low dimensional topology. Now a postdoc at Université du Québec à Montréal
- Dawid Kielak -- Now a postdoc at the Mathematical Institue of the University of Bonn
- Nicholas Touikan -- Now at Carleton University, Ottawa
- Lars Louder -- Now a Warwick Zeeman lecturer at the University of Warwick
- Alexandra Pettet -- Now at the University of British Columbia
- Anne Thomas -- Geometric group theory and rigidity, lattices and buildings. Now a lecturer at the University of Sydney.
- Oscar Randal-Williams -- Spaces of manifolds, moduli spaces, diffeomorphism groups. Now a postdoc at the University of Cambridge.
- Alexander Coward -- Topology and geometry of 3-dimensional manifolds. -- DPhil 2008, now a Research Associate at the University of Sydney.
- Jeffrey Giansiracusa -- Moduli spaces, diffeomorphism groups, operads. Now a lecturer at Swansea University.
- Karin Alcaraz -- Low dimensional topology.
- Liam Wall -- Homology growth of congruence subgroups. Now working in consultancy in Oxford.
- George Raptis -- Model categories, cobordism categories, Waldhausen K-theory. -- Now a postdoc at Osnabruck.
- Jessica Purcell -- Three-dimensional manifolds, hyperbolic geometry, and knot theory. -- Now at BYU, USA.
- Johannes Ebert -- Homotopy theory of surface bundles and moduli spaces of curves. -- Now faculty member at the University of Münster.
- Liz Hanbury -- Homological stability of spin mapping class groups. -- DPhil 2007, now at Durham.
- Graham Hope -- Farrell cohomology of mapping class groups, periodicity. -- DPhil 2006, now teaching secondary school.
- Stelios Koundouros -- Low-dimensional topology. -- Now working in London.
- Vivien Easson -- Topology and geometry of 3-dimensional manifolds. -- DPhil 2005, now working in higher education management at Queen Mary, University of London.
- Rune Ljungmann -- Characteristic classes. -- Now back in Denmark.
- Adam Piggott -- Geometric group theory. -- DPhil 2004, now Assistant Professor at Bucknell University, USA.










