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Joseph MacManus

MSc, BSc
Pronouns
He / Him
Status
Postgraduate Student
Contact form
https://jpmacmanus.me
+44 1865 615190
ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2201-0245
Research groups
  • Topology

Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG

Further details

I'm currently pursuing a DPhil in Mathematics, supervised by Panos Papazoglou.

Teaching

Teaching Assistant at The Queen's College, and Tutor for Infinite Groups. 

Previously: TA for Topology and Groups (MT21), Geometric Group Theory (HT22) and Set Theory (HT22), and Tutor for ASO Group Theory (TT22) at Merton College.

Research interests

Combinatorial and Geometric Group Theory. I'm particularly interested in algorithmic properties of hyperbolic groups, and splittings of groups. 

Major / recent publications
  • MacManus, J. P. (2022). Detecting quasiconvex splittings in hyperbolic groups. arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.09973.
  • Alexandru, C. M., Bridgett-Tomkinson, E., Linden, N., MacManus, J., Montanaro, A., & Morris, H. (2020). Quantum speedups of some general-purpose numerical optimisation algorithms. Quantum Science and Technology, 5(4), 045014.
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