Short
Vitae
Education
Ph.D: Arithmetic Kleinian
groups and their Fuchsian subgroups; University of Aberdeen, 1988
Advisor: Colin
Maclachlan
M.Sc: Arithmetic Fuchsian Groups–a survey; University
of Aberdeen, 1985
B.Sc (with 1st class honours): University of Aberdeen,
1984
Present Position
Chair, Department of Mathematics, July 1st 2018– present
Edgar Odell Lovett Chair and Professor, Rice University, July 1st 2017– present
Previous Positions
- Pennzoil Company
Regents Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin,
September 2005– July 2017
- Chairman of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, September 2011 – November 2016
- Professor at The University
of Texas at Austin, September 2002 –August 2005
- Associate Professor
at The University of Texas at Austin, September 1998–August 2002
- Assistant Professor,
The University of Texas at Austin, January 1996–September 1998
- Royal Society University
Research Fellow, University of Cambridge, October 1992–September 1996
- Fellow of Emmanuel
College Cambridge, June 1993–October 1995
- Post-Doctoral Fellow
at The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, 1991–1992
- Research Fellow at
The University of Aberdeen, July 1990 –August 1991
- Instructor at Ohio
State University, 1988–1990
Visiting Positions
- Hirzebruch Research Chair, Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Bonn,
January–June 2022.
- Research visitor, Université de Neuchâtel, June 2019.
- Member, Hausdorff Institute for Mathematics, one month Fall 2018.
- Member, The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, one month Fall 2016.
- Member, Institute for Advanced Study, January – June 2016.
- Member, Max Planck Institute für Mathematik, Bonn, June 2015
- Professeur Invité (Chair Henri Lebesgue), Université de Rennes 1, June
2014.
- Professeur Invité, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, June 2013
- Professeur Invité, Université de Paris VI / VII, June 2012
- Member, Max Planck Institute für Mathematik, Bonn, June 2010
- Member, Institute
for Advanced Study, September–December 2008
- Professeur Invité,
Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, May–June 2008
- Member, The Mathematical
Sciences Research Institute, August–December 2007
- Professeur Invité,
Centre Bernoulli, EPFL, August–September 2005
- Professeur Invité,
Université de Rennes 1, June 2003
- Visiting Professor,
Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro,
June 2001
- Professeur Invité,
Université de Rennes 1, May 1999
- Professeur Invité,
Université de Paris VII and The Institute Henri Poincaré,
May–June 1996
- Member, The Mathematical
Research Institute, March–May 1995
- Visiting Professor
at The University of Auckland, March–April 1994
- Visiting Professor
at The University of Texas at Austin, 1992–1993
- Visiting Professor
at The University of Melbourne, Summer 1992
- Visiting Lecturer
at Ohio State University, 1987–1988
Prizes and Awards
- Invited speaker, ICM Rio de Janiero, 2018
- Fellow of A.M.S., 2012
- Department of Mathematics,
U.T. Austin, Frank E Gerth III Fellowship, 2008–2010
- Alfred P. Sloan Research
Fellowship, September 1997–September 2001
- U.T. Austin, President's Associates
Centennial Teaching Fellow, August 1999– August 2000
- Edinburgh Mathematical
Society Sir Edmund Whittaker Prize, 1993.
Former Graduate
Students
- Connor Sell, Graduated May 2023, Postdoctoral Fellow at U.Q.A.M.,
Montreal.
- Tam Cheetham-West, Graduated May 2023, Gibbs Instructor, Yale University.
- Nicholas Rouse, Graduated May 2022, PIMS Instructor, UBC Vancouver.
- Will Stagner, Graduated May 2022, RTG Instructor, U.T. Austin.
- Michelle Chu, Graduated May 2018, NSF Postdoc and Instructor at UIC.
- Sam Taylor, Graduated May 2014, Assistant Professor, Temple University.
- Sam Ballas, Graduated May 2013, Assistant Professor, Florida State University.
- Grant Lakeland, Graduated May 2012, Associate Professor Eastern Illinois University.
- Darlan Girão, Graduated December 2011, Assistant Professor, Universidade Federal do Ceará. (deceased)
- Emily Landes, Graduated May 2011, teaching at Castilleja School, Palo Alto CA.
- Neil Hoffman, Graduated May 2011, Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University.
- Eric Katerman, Graduated May 2010, self employed, Berkeley CA.
- Matthew Stover, Graduated May 2010, Associate Professor, Temple University.
- Jason Callahan, Graduated
May of 2009, Full Professor at St. Edwards University, Austin,
TX.
- Jason
DeBlois. Graduated May of 2007, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh.
- Ben
McReynolds, Graduated May of 2006, Full Professor, Purdue
University.
- Eric
Chesebro, Graduated May 2006, Associate Professor at the University
of Montana.
- Melissa
Macasieb, Graduated December 2005, Data Scientist for DoD.
- Kate
Petersen, Graduated May 2005, Associate Professor at Florida
State University.
- Christopher
Leininger, Graduated May 2002, Full Professor at Rice University.
- Joseph
Masters, Graduated May 1999, Quantlab, Houston, TX
Current Graduate
Students
- Sara Edelman-Muñoz, Rice University
- Jiayu Wan, Rice University
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