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Faculty of Mathematics

 

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

TQFTs do not detect the Milnor sphere
B Gripaios, O Randal-Williams
(2026)
Even Temperley-Lieb algebras and the dga of planar loops
R Boyd, G Boyde, O Randal-Williams, RJ Sroka
(2025)
E∞-cells and general linear groups of infinite fields
S Galatius, A Kupers, O Randal-Williams
– Duke Mathematical Journal
(2025)
174,
2927
A chromatic approach to homological stability
O Randal-Williams
(2025)
Smoothing topological pseudo-isotopies of 4-manifolds
P Orson, M Powell, O Randal-Williams
(2025)
$E_\infty$-cells and general linear groups of infinite fields
S GALATIUS, A KUPERS, O RANDAL-WILLIAMS
(2025)
The Alexander trick for homology spheres
S Galatius, O Randal-Williams
– International mathematics research notices
(2024)
2024,
14689
Asymptotic mapping class groups of Cantor manifolds and their finiteness properties (with an appendix by Oscar Randal-Williams)
J Aramayona, K-U Bux, J Flechsig, N Petrosyan, X Wu
– Revista Matematica Iberoamericana
(2024)
40,
2003
Monodromy and mapping class groups of 3-dimensional hypersurfaces (Aug, 10.1007/s00208-024-02951-4, 2024)
O Randal-Williams
– Mathematische Annalen
(2024)
391,
2005
Monodromy and mapping class groups of 3-dimensional hypersurfaces.
O Randal-Williams
– Math Ann
(2024)
391,
1965
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Research Group

Differential Geometry & Topology

Room

E2.06

Telephone

01223 764291