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Prof. Marc Lackenby

Status
Academic Faculty

Professor of Mathematics

Contact form
http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/lackenby/
+44 1865 273561
Research groups
  • Topology
  • Geometry

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

Highlighted publications
A polynomial upper bound on Reidemeister moves
Lackenby, M Annals of Mathematics volume 182 issue 2 491-564 (Sep 2015) http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.0180v2
The maximal number of exceptional Dehn surgeries
Lackenby, M Meyerhoff, R Inventiones Mathematicae volume 191 issue 2 341-382 (01 Feb 2013)
The crossing number of composite knots
Lackenby, M (30 May 2008) http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.4706v2
The volume of hyperbolic alternating link complements
Lackenby, M Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society volume 88 issue 1 204-224 (13 Jan 2004)
Word hyperbolic Dehn surgery
Lackenby, M (28 Aug 1998) http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9808120v2
Research interests

Topology, geometry and group theory

Prizes, awards, and scholarships

LMS Whitehead Prize 2003 

EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship 2004-09

Philip Leverhulme Prize 2006

Invited speaker, ICM 2010

Recent publications
The computational complexity of knot genus in a fixed 3-manifold
Lackenby, M Yazdi, M Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (01 Jan 2023)
The triangulation complexity of elliptic and sol 3-manifolds
Lackenby, M Purcell, J (09 Dec 2022) http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04683v1
Expander Graph Propagation
Deac, A Lackenby, M Veličković, P (06 Oct 2022) http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.02997v2
Recognising elliptic manifolds
Lackenby, M Schleimer, S (18 May 2022) http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.08802v2
Advancing mathematics by guiding human intuition with AI
Davies, A Velickovic, P Buesing, L Blackwell, S Zheng, D Tomasev, N Tanburn, R Battaglia, P Blundell, C Juhasz, A Lackenby, M Williamson, G Hassabis, D Kohli, D Nature volume 600 70-74 (01 Dec 2021)
Further details

Editor of "Journal of Topology"

Editor of "Groups, Geometry and Dynamics"

Editor of "Journal of the LMS" (2008-2013)

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