Biography:Alan Reid (mathematician)

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Alan William Reid
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BornJune 14, 1962 (1962-06-14) (age 62)
NationalityScottish United States
Alma materUniversity of Aberdeen
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsRice University
University of Texas, Austin
ThesisArithmetic Kleinian Groups and their Fuchsian Subgroups (1988)
Doctoral advisorColin Maclachlan

Alan William Reid (born June 14, 1962) is a Scottish-American mathematician working primarily with arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds. He is the Edgar Odell Lovett Chair of mathematics at Rice University, 2017—present.[1]

Biography

Research

Alan Reid's research primarily focusses on low-dimensional topology, hyperbolic manifolds and profinite groups. He proved that the figure-eight knot is the only knot whose complement is an arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifold.[2] With Martin Bridson, Ben McReynolds and Ryan Spitler, he found the first examples of non-elementary Kleinian groups which are determined by their finite quotients among finitely generated residually finite groups.[3]

He has published more than 100 papers,[4] and supervised 21 PhD students to completion as of 2023. [5] [6]

Notable publications

Awards and honours

  • Speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians, Rio de Janeiro.[7]
  • Pennzoil Company Regents Professor of Mathematics, University of Texas, Austin, 2011–2016.[8]
  • Sir Edmund Whittaker Prize in 1993.[9]

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