Members of the topology group

 

Permanent Faculty

Martin Bridson

Geometric group theory, non-positive curvature

Christopher Douglas

Algebraic and geometric topology, 3 and 4-dimensional TQFT, elliptic cohomology

Cornelia Drutu

Geometric group theory, ergodic theory, applications to number theory

Marc Lackenby

Topology and geometry of 3-dimensional manifolds, group theory

Panos Papazoglou

Geometric group theory

Graeme Segal

K-Theory, field theories, applications to physics

Ulrike Tillmann

Algebraic topology, K-theory, applications to quantum field theory

   

Postdocs and visitors

Will Cavendish
John Mackay
Andrew Stacey
Shengkui Ye
   

Research students

Henry Bradford
Geometric group theory
 
Owen Cotton-Barratt
Geometric group theory
 
Antonio De Capua
 
David Hume
Geometric group theory
 
Rosalinda Juer
 
Robert Kropholler
 
Benno Kuckuck
Geometric group theory
 
Richard Manthorpe
 
Martin Palmer
Algebraic topology
 
Andrew Sale
Geometric group theory
 
Hemanth Saratchandran
 
Alessandro Sisto
 
Thomas Wasserman
 
Hongyun Yon
 

 

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.