Brian H. Bowditch's HomePage

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I am currently looking for an alternative host.
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Name: Brian H. Bowditch
Address: Mathematics Institute,
University of Warwick,
Coventry CV4 7AL,
Great Britain.
Telephone: +44-24-76522677
Room: A2.01, Zeeman Building.
Email

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I am now retired, and only visiting the department sporadically. If you want to contact me, it is probably best to use email.

Bibliography and Abstracts For a list of my publications and preprints, and abstracts thereof

Electronic Preprints To download recent preprints in dvi or pdf format

Research Interests: Hyperbolic, riemannian and metric geometry. Geometric group theory.
Some elaboration can be found here.
Former Research Students
Marco Barberis supervised jointly with Saul Schleimer.
Thesis: ``Rigidity properties for graphs associated with planar surfaces''.
Esmee te Winkel (supervised jointly with Saul Schleimer) PhD Warwick, 2020.
Thesis: ``Curves and laminations on the five-times punctured sphere''. Available here.
Ronja Kuhne (supervised jointly with Saul Schleimer) PhD Warwick, 2019.
Thesis: ``Polynomial-time efficient position''.
Katie Vokes, PhD Warwick, 2018.
Thesis: ``Large scale geometry of curve complexes''.
Francesca Iezzi, PhD Warwick, 2016.
Thesis: ``Sphere systems in 3-manifolds and arc graphs''.
Robert Tang, PhD Warwick, 2013.
Thesis: ``Covering maps and hulls in the curve complex''.
Tom Collyer, PhD Warwick, 2013.
Thesis: ``On generalised graphs and applications to the curve complex''. Available here.
Ken Shackleton, PhD Southampton, 2005.
Thesis: ``Aspects of the curve complex and the mapping class group''.
Javier Aramayona, PhD Southampton, 2004.
Thesis: ``The coarse geometry of Teichmüller space''.
Aslı Yaman, PhD Southampton, 2003.
Thesis: ``Boundaries of relatively hyperbolic groups''.

Teaching: MA4H4 Geometric group theory (previous years).
MA3D9 Geometry of curves and surfaces (previous years).
MA3H5 Manifolds (previous years).

Assorted Mathematical Sites.

Geometric group theory (maintained by Jon McCammond) includes links to geometric group theorists' homepages, conferences etc.
Geometry Center at Minneapolis. Includes graphics archives, downloadable software etc.
Geometry Junkyard maintained by David Eppstein. All manner of geometrical sites.
zbMATH Index of mathematical publications.
Mathematics Subject Classification, 2020 Zentralblatt/American Mathematical Society.

Things to do.

Find out more about me and some places I have been.

Look up my mathematical ancestors according to the mathematics genealogy project.

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