
Status:
Professor of Mathematics
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Address
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Highlighted Books:
Geometric group theory
ISBN-13: 9781470411046
(28 March 2018)
Highlighted Publications:
Random groups, random graphs and eigenvalues of p-Laplacians
Advances in Mathematics
(30 October 2018)
Full text available
Geometry of infinitely presented small cancellation groups, Rapid Decay
and quasi-homomorphisms
Canadian Journal of Mathematics
(21 August 2018)
Full text available
Combinatorial higher dimensional isoperimetry and divergence
Journal of Topology and Analysis
(3 November 2017)
Full text available
Kazhdan projections, random walks and ergodic theorems
Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik
issue 754
volume 2019
page 49-86
(18 March 2017)
Median structures on asymptotic cones and homomorphisms into mapping
class groups
Proc. Lond. Math. Soc.
issue 3
volume 102
page 503-554
(29 October 2008)
Full text available
Kazhdan and Haagerup properties from the median viewpoint
Adv. Math.
issue 2
volume 225
page 882-921
(29 April 2007)
Full text available
Recent Publications:
Higher dimensional divergence for mapping class groups
Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics
(7 May 2019)
Full text available
DIVERGENCE IN LATTICES IN SEMISIMPLE LIE GROUPS AND GRAPHS OF GROUPS (vol 362, pg 2451, 2010)
TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
issue 1
volume 370
page 749-754
(January 2018)
Full text available
Divergence, thick groups, and short conjugators
Illinois Journal of Mathematics
(6 November 2015)
Full text available
Addendum: Median structures on asymptotic cones and homomorphisms into mapping class groups
Proc. Lond. Math. Soc.
issue 3
volume 102
page 555-562
(2011)
Quasi-isometry rigidity of groups
Seminaires et Congres
volume 18
page 321-371
(2009)
Research interests:
Geometric group theory, ergodic theory, applications to number theory
Preferred address:
Andrew Wiles Building
University of Oxford
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford OX2 6GG, United Kingdom
Prizes, awards, and scholarships:
Whitehead Prize 2009
Major / recent publications:
C. Drutu, J. Mackay, Random groups, random graphs and eigenvalues of p-Laplacians, Adv. Math. 341 (2019), 188--254.
C. Drutu, P. Nowak, Kazhdan projections, random walks and ergodic theorems, to appear in Journal fur die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelle's Journal), online version available https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/crll.ahead-of-print/crelle-2017-0002/cr...