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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

Generalised Miller–Morita–Mumford classes for block bundles and topological bundles
J Ebert, O Randal-Williams
– Algebraic & Geometric Topology
(2014)
14,
1181
Stable moduli spaces of high-dimensional manifolds
S Galatius, O Randal-Williams
– Acta Mathematica
(2014)
212,
257
Homology of the moduli spaces and mapping class groups of framed, r-Spin and Pin surfaces
O Randal-Williams
– Journal of Topology
(2014)
7,
155
Group-completion', local coefficient systems and perfection
O Randal-Williams
– The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics
(2013)
64,
795
Detecting and realising characteristic classes of manifold bundles
S Galatius, O Randal-Williams
– Contemporary Mathematics
(2013)
620,
99
The space of immersed surfaces in a manifold
O Randal-Williams
– Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
(2013)
154,
419
Homological stability for moduli spaces of high dimensional manifolds
S Galatius, O Randal-Williams
(2012)
STABLE COHOMOLOGY OF THE UNIVERSAL PICARD VARIETIES AND THE EXTENDED MAPPING CLASS GROUP
J Ebert, O Randal-Williams
– Documenta Mathematica
(2012)
17,
417
HOMOLOGICAL STABILITY FOR UNORDERED CONFIGURATION SPACES
O Randal-Williams
– The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics
(2011)
64,
303
The Picard group of the moduli space of $r$-spin Riemann surfaces
O Randal-Williams
– Advances in Mathematics
(2011)
231,
482
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Research Group

Differential Geometry & Topology

Room

E2.06

Telephone

01223 764291