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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

Stable cohomology of congruence subgroups
O Randal-Williams
– Compositio Mathematica
(2022)
Diffeomorphisms of discs
O Randal-Williams
(2022)
2856
Tautological rings and stabilisation
O Randal-Williams
– Glasgow Mathematical Journal
(2021)
64,
231
An $\protect \text{HP}^2$-bundle over $\protect \text{S}^4$ with nontrivial Â-genus
M Krannich, A Kupers, O Randal-Williams
– Comptes Rendus. Mathématique
(2021)
359,
149
A vanishing theorem for tautological classes of aspherical manifolds
F Hebestreit, M Land, W Lück, O Randal-Williams
– Geometry & Topology
(2021)
25,
47
Framings of $W_{g,1}$
A Kupers, O Randal-Williams
– Quarterly Journal of Mathematics
(2021)
6,
1029
Mapping class groups of simply connected high-dimensional manifolds need not be arithmetic
M Krannich, O Randal-Williams
– Comptes Rendus. Mathématique
(2020)
358,
469
On the cohomology of Torelli groups
A Kupers, O Randal-Williams
– Forum of Mathematics, Pi
(2020)
8,
e7
HOMOLOGY OF HURWITZ SPACES AND THE COHEN-LENSTRA HEURISTIC FOR FUNCTION FIELDS [after Ellenberg, Venkatesh, and Westerland]
O Randal-Williams
– Asterisque
(2020)
422,
469
Semi-simplicial spaces
J Ebert, O Randal-Williams
– Algebraic and Geometric Topology
(2019)
19,
2099
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Research Group

Differential Geometry & Topology

Room

E2.06

Telephone

01223 764291