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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

The family signature theorem
O Randal-Williams
(2022)
The positive scalar curvature cobordism category
J Ebert, O Randal-Williams
– Duke Mathematical Journal
(2022)
171,
2275
Differential cohomology and topological actions in physics
J Davighi, B Gripaios, O Randal-Williams
– Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
(2022)
27,
2045
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 ${\bf H}P^2$-bundle over $S^4$ with nontrivial $\hat{A}$-genus
M Krannich, A Kupers, O Randal-Williams
– Comptes Rendus Mathematique
(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
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Research Group

Differential Geometry & Topology

Room

E2.06

Telephone

01223 764291