Mathematical Institute
24-29 St Giles'
Oxford OX1 3LB
Tel:+44 (0)1865 273528
MARTIN R. BRIDSON
Whitehead Professor of Pure Mathematics
Email
:
bridson[AT]maths.ox.ac.uk
Voice Mail:
(+44)(0) 1865 273528
Research
My main research interests lie in geometric group theory, low-dimensional topology, and the study of metric spaces of non-positive curvature, as you will see from the summary of my work given in the following items.
Research Papers
BOS Network: Geometric and Analytic Methods in Group Theory
Meeting in Oxford, 20 October 2008
Oxford Seminars
Topology (Mondays)
Geometry and Analysis (Mondays)
Algebra (Tuesdays)
Recent meetings that I helped to organise
The 3rd William Rowan Hamilton Geometry and Topology Workshop, Dublin, Sept 07
Oberwolfach: Topological and Geometric methods in group theory, April 06
ICM Satellite: Groups in geometry and topology, Malaga, Sept 06
The 2nd William Rowan Hamilton Geometry and Topology Workshop, Dublin, Oct 06
Some Recent Lectures
slides of my talk at the ICM 2006
Abstracts, slides and/or notes to appear here (Texas, Xi'an, Oberwolfach, Poland, Cortona, Newcastle, Osaka, Munster)
Notes from some of the other talks listed on
MY CV
are available on request
Notes of my CBMS lectures will appear here shortly.
The book I wrote with Andre Haefliger
Metric Spaces of Non-Positive Curvature
(Grundlehren 319, Springer-Verlag, 1999)
table of contents (.pdf)
Review from Math Reviews (.pdf)
The book I edited with Simon Salamon
Invitations to Geometry and Topology
(Oxford Graduate Texts in Mathematics, OUP, 2002)
My 1997 Bath Lectures
Non-Positive Curvature in Group Theory
(London Mathematics Society Lecture Notes, volume 260, pp.124--175).
Links
Isle of Man
(and here)
London Mathematical Society
The Lawyer's Committee for Human Rights
Amnesty International
The poetry of James Lynch Bridson
Bridson
is a Manx name. The Gaelic form is Mylvreeshey.
My Graduate Students, past and present
Dani Wise, McGill
Claas Roever, NUI Galway
Tim Riley, Cornell
Adam Piggott, Tufts
Henry Wilton, UT Austin
Michael Tweedale, Bristol
Will Dison, Imperial
since 15.07.05