Biography:Alan Reid (mathematician)
Alan William Reid | |
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| Born | June 14, 1962 (age 61) |
| Nationality | Scottish United States |
| Alma mater | University of Aberdeen |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Rice University University of Texas, Austin |
| Thesis | Arithmetic Kleinian Groups and their Fuchsian Subgroups (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Colin 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
- MacLachlan, Colin; Reid, Alan W. (2003). The Arithmetic of Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds. Graduate Texts in Mathematics. 219. doi:10.1007/978-1-4757-6720-9. ISBN 978-1-4419-3122-1. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4757-6720-9. with Colin Maclachlan.
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]
References
- ↑ "Edgar Odell Lovett Chair of mathematics, Rice University, 2017--present.". https://profiles.rice.edu/faculty/alan-reid.
- ↑ Reid, Alan W. (1991). "Arithmeticity of knot complements". Journal of the London Mathematical Society: 171–184. doi:10.1112/jlms/s2-43.1.171. https://doi.org/10.1112/jlms/s2-43.1.171.
- ↑ Bridson, M. A.; McReynolds, D. B.; Reid, A. W.; Spitler, R. (2020). "Absolute profinite rigidity and hyperbolic geometry". Annals of Mathematics 192 (3). doi:10.4007/annals.2020.192.3.1. https://doi.org/10.4007/annals.2020.192.3.1.
- ↑ "MathSciNet". https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/MRAuthorID/146355.
- ↑ "Alan Reid - the Mathematics Genealogy Project". https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=36986.
- ↑ "Alan Reid: Short Vitae". https://math.rice.edu/~ar99/vitae.html.
- ↑ "List of 2018 ICM speakers". https://www.mathunion.org/fileadmin/IMU/ICM2018/static_site/portal/invited-section-lectures-speakers.html.
- ↑ "Ohio State Collloquium website". https://math.osu.edu/events/colloquium-alan-reid.
- ↑ "Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize" (in en). Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society 37 (2): 359–360. June 1994. doi:10.1017/S0013091500006131. ISSN 1464-3839.
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