Martin Bridson
Martin Robert Bridson FRS is a Manx mathematician. He is the Whitehead Professor of Pure Mathematics at Oxford, and head of the Clay Mathematics Institute. He previously held the role of head of University of Oxford's Mathematical Institute. He is a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and an Honorary Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. Specializing in geometry, topology and group theory, Bridson is best known for his work in Geometric Group Theory.[2][3][4]
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Born | Martin Robert Bridson 1964 (age 55–56)[1] |
Education | St Ninian's High School, Douglas |
Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA) Cornell University (PhD) |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Geometric Group Theory |
Institutions | University of Oxford |
Thesis | Geodesics and Curvature in Metric Simplicial Complexes (1991) |
Doctoral advisor | Karen Vogtmann[2] |
Doctoral students | Daniel Wise[2] |
Website | people |
Education and early life
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Bridson is a native of the Isle of Man.[5] He was educated at St Ninian's High School, Douglas, then Hertford College, Oxford, and Cornell University,[1] receiving a Master of Arts degree from Oxford in 1986, and a Master of Science degree in 1988 followed by a PhD in 1991 from Cornell.[6][2] His PhD thesis was supervised by Karen Vogtmann,[2] and was entitled Geodesics and Curvature in Metric Simplicial Complexes.
Career and research
He was an assistant professor at Princeton University until 1996, was twice a visiting professor at the University of Geneva (1992 and 2006), and was Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College London from 2002 to 2007. From 1993 to 2002 he was a Tutorial Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, and reader (1996) then Professor of Topology (2000) in the University of Oxford. He remains a Supernumerary Fellow of Pembroke College.[7] In 2016, Bridson became only the second Manxman to ever be elected to the Royal Society, after Edward Forbes.
Honours and awards
Bridson was an invited lecturer at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2006.
- In 2016 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.[8]
- In 2014 he was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[9]
- 1999 Whitehead Prize
- 2012 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
- 2016 Elected Fellow of The Royal Society
References
- Anon (2017). "Bridson, Prof. Martin Robert". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.250830. (subscription or UK public library membership required) (subscription required)
- Martin Bridson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Martin Bridson publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Martin Bridson publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- "WEDDINGS;Julie A. Lynch, Martin R. Bridson". The New York Times. 1995-12-31.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-23. Retrieved 2012-07-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- Bridson, Martin. "Martin R. Bridson". people.maths.ox.ac.uk.
- "Martin bridson biography". Royal Society. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
- "American Mathematical Society". www.ams.org.