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Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics

Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics

Research Interests: Algebraic and Geometric Topology, in particular: mapping class groups, moduli spaces, cobordism categories, spaces of manifolds, surgery, configuration spaces, characteristic classes, K-theory and applications of homotopy theory to geometry.

 

Publications

On the Torelli Lie algebra
A Kupers, O Randal-Williams
– Forum of Mathematics Pi
(2023)
11,
e13
Generalized symmetries of topological field theories
B Gripaios, O Randal-Williams, J Tooby-Smith
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2023)
2023,
87
On the order of Dehn twists
A Keating, O Randal-Williams
– The New York Journal of Mathematics
(2023)
29,
203
The family signature theorem
O Randal-Williams
– Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A Mathematics
(2023)
154,
2024
Differential cohomology and topological actions in physics
J Davighi, B Gripaios, O Randal-Williams
– Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
(2023)
27,
2045
The positive scalar curvature cobordism category
J Ebert, O Randal-Williams
– Duke Mathematical Journal
(2022)
171,
2275
Stable cohomology of congruence subgroups
O Randal-Williams
(2022)
Diffeomorphisms of discs
O Randal-Williams
(2022)
2856
Diffeomorphisms of discs and the second Weiss derivative of BTop(-)
M Krannich, O Randal-Williams
(2021)
An $\protect \text{HP}^2$-bundle over $\protect \text{S}^4$ with nontrivial Â-genus
M Krannich, A Kupers, O Randal-Williams
– Comptes Rendus Mathematique (Academie des Sciences)
(2021)
359,
149
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Research Group

Differential Geometry & Topology

Room

E2.06

Telephone

01223 764291