Status:
Professor of Mathematics
Personal website:
+44 1865 273561
Research groups:
Address
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Highlighted Publications:
A polynomial upper bound on Reidemeister moves
Annals of Mathematics
issue 2
volume 182
page 491-564
(September 2015)
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The maximal number of exceptional Dehn surgeries
Inventiones Mathematicae
issue 2
volume 191
page 341-382
(1 February 2013)
The volume of hyperbolic alternating link complements
Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society
issue 1
volume 88
page 204-224
(13 January 2004)
The crossing number of composite knots
JOURNAL OF TOPOLOGY
issue 4
volume 2
page 747-768
(2009)
Full text available
Word hyperbolic Dehn surgery
INVENTIONES MATHEMATICAE
issue 2
volume 140
page 243-282
(May 2000)
Full text available
Recent Publications:
The efficient certification of knottedness and Thurston norm
Advances in Mathematics
volume 387
(15 June 2021)
Every knot has characterising slopes
Mathematische Annalen
(8 October 2018)
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Alternating links and definite surfaces
Duke Mathematical Journal
issue 11
volume 166
page 2133-2151
(5 May 2017)
Elementary knot theory
Lectures on Geometry
(26 January 2017)
Full text available
Cusp volumes of alternating knots
Geometry and Topology
(23 October 2014)
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Research interests:
Topology, geometry and group theory
Further details:
Editor of "Journal of Topology"
Editor of "Groups, Geometry and Dynamics"
Editor of "Journal of the LMS" (2008-2013)
Prizes, awards, and scholarships:
LMS Whitehead Prize 2003
EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship 2004-09
Philip Leverhulme Prize 2006
Invited speaker, ICM 2010