Geometric Group Theory Organizations

The following is a list of departments which have people specializing in geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology. Please notify me of errors or omissions.

Math Departments Lists: All International, Germany Irish, UK, US.
Societies: AMS, CMS, DMV, IMU, LMS, MAA, SIAM, SMF
Other Organizations: AIM, CMI, IMA, IPAM, MathSciNet, MSRI, NSF, MFO, BIRS, YMN.
Subject Area Organizations: Group Pub Forum, Magnus The World of Groups Topology Atlas,
Geometry Center, abraCAdaBRI. Computational Topology British Topology Braids

Individual Departments

Arizona State U.:

Julien Paupert

Australian National U.:

Mike Newman
Adam Piggott

Bar-Ilan U., Israel:

Stuart Margolis
Mina Teicher

Bates C.:

Peter Wong

Birmingham Southern:

Barry Spieler

Boston C.:

Martin Bridgeman
Tao Li

Bowdoin C.:

Jennifer Taback

Bowling Green State U.:

Rieuwert Blok
Elmas Irmak
Xiangdong Xie

Brandeis U.:

Carolyn Abbott
Ruth Charney

Brigham Young U.:

Greg Conner
Eric Swenson

Brown U.:

Jeff Brock
Hee Oh
Richard Schwartz
Bena Tshishiku

CUNY:

Khalid Bou-Rabee
Peter Brinkmann
Sean Cleary
Delaram Kahrobaei
Bilal Khan
Joseph Maher
Vladimir Shpilrain

CUNY - Hunter C.:

Ilya Kapovich
Olga Kharlampovich

CUNY - Lehman C.:

Jason Behrstock
Michael Handel

Cal - Tech:

Giovanni Paolini

Cal Poly:

Anton Kaul

Cambridge U., U.K.:

Rachael Boyd

Carlton U., Canada:

Inna Bumagin
Ben Steinberg

Colby C.:

Scott Taylor

College of New Jersey:

Andrew Clifford

Colorado State U. - Fort Collins:

Alexander Hulpke

Columbia U.:

Joan Birman
Katherine Crowley
Zeph Grunschlag
Brian Mangum
John Morgan
Walter Neumann

Cork Inst.Tech., Ireland:

Shane O'Rourke

Cornell U.:

Ken Brown
Marshall Cohen
Allen Hatcher
Kathryn Mann
Jason Manning
Tim Riley

DePaul U.:

Eric Sedgwick

Dublin City U., Ireland.:

Tom Brady

Duke U.:

John Harer

E. China Normal U.:

Qing Zhou

ENS-Lyon, France:

Damien Gaboriau
Ghani Zeghib

ENS-Paris, France:

Anna Erschler

ETH - Zurich:

Marc Burger
Matthew Cordes
Alessandra Iozzi

Eastern Illinois U.:

Leo Comerford

Ecole Poly., Lausanne, Switzerland:

Nicolas Monod

Ecole Polytechnique, France:

Bertrand Remy

Emory U.:

Aaron Abrams
Emily Hamilton

Eotvos U.:

Gabor Moussong

Fairfield U.:

Benjamin Fine

Florida State U.:

Phil Bowers
Sergio Fenley
Wolfgang Heil
Ignat Soroko

Georgia South-Western State U.:

Dongwen Qi

Georgia Tech.:

Igor Belegradek
Predrag Cvitanovic
Marissa Loving

Glasgow U., Scotland:

James Belk
Tara Brendle
Steve Pride

Hamilton C.:

Debra Boutin

Harvard U.:

Curt McMullen

Harvey Mudd C.:

Francis Su

Hebrew U., Israel:

Ruth Lawrence
Alex Lubotzky
Shahar Mozes
Ilya Rips
Zlil Sela

Heriott-Watt U., U.K.:

Nick Gilbert
Jim Howie

Hofsta U., New York:

Zoran Sunik

ICMAT, Spain:

Javier Aramayona

IHES, France.:

Mikhael Gromov
Fanny Kassel

IISER Mohali, India:

Krishnendu Gongopadhyay

IRMA, Strasbourg, France:

Michel Coornaert
Thomas Delzant
Jean-Louis Loday
Athanase Papadopoulos

Indiana U. - Bloomington:

Chris Connell
David Fisher

Inst. Fourier, Grenoble, France:

Francois Dahmani
Ariadna Fossas

James Madison U.:

Carl Droms
Leonard VanWyk

Jiaotong U., China:

Robert Tang

KAIST, South Korea:

Harry Baik

KIAS, Seoul, South Korea:

Sang-hyun Kim

KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany:

Tobias Hartnick
Enrico Leuzinger
Roman Sauer

Katholieke U. Leuven:

Karel Dekimpe
Paul Igodt

Keio U., Japan:

Makoto Matsumoto

Kyoto U., Japan:

Koji Fujiwara

Lafayette C.:

Ethan Berkove
Michael Dougherty
John Meier

Lousiana State U.:

Pallavi Dani
Oliver Dasbach
Dasbach Oliver

Mahidol U., Thailand:

Dmitry Berdinsky

Max Planck Institute-Leipzig, Germany:

James Farre
Mireille Soergel
Anna Wienhard

McGill U., Canada:

Piotr Przytycki
Dani Wise

Melbourne U., Australia:

Oliver Goodman
Craig Hodgson
Chuck Miller
Paul Norbury
Lawerence Reeves
Hyam Rubinstein
G.A. Swarup

Memorial U., Canada:

Eduardo Martinez-Pedroza

Miami U., Ohio:

Dan Farley

Michigan State U.:

Bob Bell
Nikolai Ivanov
Bin Sun

Moscow State U., Russia:

Anton Klyachko

N. Dakota State:

Azer Akhmedov

National U. Singapore:

Jon Berrick

Niagara U.:

Joel Louwsma

Oklahoma State U.:

Andrew Przeworski
David Wright

Oregon Grad. Inst.:

Sava Krstic

Oregon State U.:

Bill Bogley

Oxford U., U.K.:

Martin Bridson
Cornelia Drutu-Badea
Dawid Kielak
Marc Lackenby
David Spriano

Paris-Sud, France:

Frédéric Haglund
Pierre Pansu
Frédéric Paulin
Estelle Souche

Pitzer C.:

David Bachman
Jim Hoste

Polish Acad. Sciences:

Tadeusz Januszkiewicz

Portland State U.:

Paul Latiolais

Princeton U.:

David Gabai

Purdue U.:

Ben McReynolds

Pusan National U., Korea:

Donghi Lee

Queen Mary and Westfield, U.K.:

Ian Chiswell

Queen's U. of Kingston, Canada:

Catherine Pfaff

Rice U.:

Shelly Harvey
John Hempel
Chris Leininger
Alan Reid
Jacob Russell
Mike Wolf

Rutgers - Newark:

Mark Feighn
Jane Gilman
Robbie Lyman
Lee Mosher

Rutgers U.:

Lisa Carbone
Feng Luo

SUNY - Albany:

Boris Goldfarb
Matt Zaremsky

SUNY - Binghamton:

Matthew Brin
Ross Geoghegan
James Hyde
Lorenzo Ruffoni
Jenya Sapir
Daniel Studenmund

SUNY - Stony Brook:

John Milnor

SUNY-Buffalo:

Bill Menasco
Adam Sikora

San Jose State U.:

Roger Alperin
Edgar Bering
Tim Hsu

Santa Clara U.:

Richard Scott

Seoul National U., South Korea:

Seonhee Lim

St. Louis U.:

Michael Landry
Lucas Sabalka

St. Michaels C.:

Craig Jensen

Stanford U.:

Soren Galatius

Stevens Institute:

Bob Gilman
Alexei Miasnikov
Nicholas Touikan

T.U. Eindhoven, the Netherlands:

Arjeh Cohen

Tata Inst. Mumbai, India:

Mahan Mj

Temple U.:

David Futer
Radika Gupta
Igor Rivin
Sam Taylor

Texas A & M U.:

Rostislav Grigorchuk
Volodia Nekrashevych

The Ohio State U.:

Nathan Broaddus
Mike Davis
Mohamad Hindawi
Jingyin Huang
Jean-Francois Lafont

The Technion, Israel:

Arye Juhasz
Vladimir Lin
Yoav Moriah
Thomas Ng
Michah Sageev

Trinity College:

Matt Horak
Melanie Stein

Tufts U.:

Moon Duchin
Mauricio Gutierrez
Zbigniew Nitecki
Kim Ruane
Genevieve Walsh
Richard Weiss

U. Aix Marseille I, France:

Hamish Short

U. Aix Marseille III, France:

Thierry Coulbois
Martin Lustig

U. Alabama:

Jon Corson

U. Arkansas:

Matt Clay
Matthew Day

U. Athens, Greece:

Panos Papazoglu

U. Auckland, New Zealand:

Marston Conder

U. Autònoma de Barcelona:

Warren Dicks

U. Autònoma de Madrid:

Yago Antolin

U. Bielefeld, Germany:

Herbert Abels
Kai-Uwe Bux

U. Blaise Pascal, France:

Yves Stalder

U. Bonn, Germany:

Werner Ballmann
Giovanni Gandini
Ursula Hamenstadt

U. Bourgogne, France:

Remi Coulon
Luis Paris

U. Bremen, Germany:

Emanuele Delucchi

U. Bristol, U.K.:

Mark Hagen
David Hume
Michael Tweedale

U. British Columbia, Canada:

Alexandra Pettet

U. Caen, France:

Patrick Dehornoy
Eddy Godelle
Gilbert Levitt
Matthieu Picantin

U. California - Berkeley:

Ian Agol
Robion Kirby
Peter Teichner

U. California - Davis:

Joel Hass
Misha Kapovich
Greg Kuperberg
Jennifer Schultens
Abby Thompson

U. California - Irvine:

David Eppstein

U. California - San Diego:

Justin Roberts

U. California - Santa Barbara:

Stephen Bigelow
Daryl Cooper
Darren Long
Jon McCammond
Martin Scharlemann

U. California - Santa Cruz:

Kasia Jankiewicz

U. Catalunya, Spain:

Jordi Delgado

U. Catholique de Louvain, Belgium:

Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace
Timothée Marquis

U. Chicago:

Danny Calegari
Alex Eskin
Benson Farb
Howard Masur
Shmuel Weinberger
Robert Zimmer

U. Claude Bernard - Lyon I, France:

David Bessis
Yves Cornulier
Bertrand Rémy

U. College London, U.K.:

Lars Louder
Henry Wilton

U. Dortmund, Germany:

Gerhard Rosenberger

U. Duesseldorf, Germany:

Oleg Bogopolski

U. Fed. de Minas Gerais, Brazil:

Victor Gerasimov

U. Florida:

Alexander Dranishnikov

U. Frankfurt, Germany:

Robert Bieri
Jens Harlander
Cynthia Hog-Angeloni
Klaus Johannson
Richard Weidmann

U. Fribourg, Switzerland:

Ruth Kellerhals

U. Göttingen, Germany:

Laurent Bartholdi

U. Geneva, Switzerland:

Pierre De La Harpe
Andre Haefliger
Anders Karlsson
Tatiana Nagnibeda

U. Giessen, Germany:

Ralf Koehl
Bernhard Muehlherr
Stefan Witzel

U. Goettingen, Germany:

Thomas Schick

U. Haifa, Israel:

Yael Algom-Kfir

U. Haifa-Oranim, Israel:

Fabienne Chouraqui

U. Hawaii:

Erik Guentner

U. Illinois - Chicago:

Marc Culler
David Dumas
Alex Furman
Dan Groves
John Holt
Steve Hurder
Louis Kauffman
Mark O'Brien
Mark Ronan
Peter Shalen
Kevin Whyte

U. Illinois - Urbana-Champaign:

Nathan Dunfield
Sergei Ivanov
Igor Mineyev
Paul Schupp
Kim Whittlesey

U. Karlsruhe, Germany:

Claudio Llosa

U. Kent, U.K.:

Gerald Williams

U. Leeds, U.K.:

B.J.T. Allenby

U. Lethbridge, Canada:

Dave Morris

U. London, U.K.:

Brita Nucinkis

U. Lorraine, France:

Bruno Duchesne

U. Magdeburg, Germany:

Olga Varghese

U. Maryland:

Bill Goldman

U. Michigan:

Hanna Bennett
Dick Canary
Angela Kubena (Barnhill)
Peter Scott

U. Minnesota:

Scot Adams
Michelle Chu
Vic Reiner

U. Muenster, Germany:

Giles Gardam
Linus Kramer
Wolfgang Lueck
Malik Talbi

U. N. Carolina - Asheville:

Patrick Bahls
Dave Peifer

U. N. Carolina - Greensboro:

Greg Bell
Talia Fernos

U. Nebraska - Lincoln:

Mark Brittenham
Susan Hermiller
John Meakin

U. Neuchatel, Switzerland:

Laura Ciobanu
Sasha Kolpakov
Alain Valette

U. Newcastle, Australia:

George Willis

U. Newcastle, U.K.:

Mike Batty
Andrew Duncan
Keith Goda
Sarah Rees
Alina Vdovina

U. Notre Dame:

Jeff Diller
Andy Putman
Nick Salter

U. Nottingham, U.K.:

Martin Edjvet

U. Oklahoma:

Noel Brady
Max Forester
Justin Malestein
Jing Tao

U. Paris VI, France:

Romain Tessera
Andrzej Zuk

U. Paris VII, France:

Michel Broue
Jean Michel

U. Pennsylvania:

Robert Ghrist
Peter Storm

U. Pisa, Italy:

Simona Settepanella

U. Politècnica de Catalunya:

Jose Burillo
Enric Ventura

U. Provence, France:

Jean-Philippe Préaux
Asli Yaman

U. Queensland, Australia:

Stephan Tillmann

U. Rennes, France:

Vincent Guiradel
Juan Suoto
Bert Wiest

U. Sannio, Italy:

Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein

U. South Alabama:

Josh Barnard
Stephen Brick
John Dean

U. South Florida:

Dmytro Savchuk

U. Southampton, U.K.:

Jim Anderson
Martin Dunwoody
Aditi Kar
Peter Kropholler
Ian Leary
Armando Martino
Ashot Minasyan
Graham Niblo
Nansen Petrosyan
Nick Wright

U. Southern California:

Francis Bonahon

U. Southern Maine:

Corey Bregman

U. St. Andrews, Scotland:

Collin Bleak
Colin Campbell
Edmund Robertson
Nik Ruskuc

U. Sydney, Australia:

Bob Howlett
Anne Thomas

U. Tech., Sydney, Australia:

Murray Elder

U. Tennessee - Knoxville:

James Conant
Yulan Qing
Ken Stephenson

U. Texas - Austin:

Daniel Allcock
Lewis Bowen
Cameron Gordon
Kate Juschenko

U. Toronto, Canada:

Guilio Tiozzo

U. Toulouse, France:

Christophe Pittet

U. Utah:

Mladen Bestvina
Ken Bromberg
Priyam Patel
Rachel Skipper
Kevin Wortman

U. Vienna, Austria:

Goulnara Arzhantseva
Chris Cashen
Damian Osajda

U. Virginia:

Peter Abramenko
Thomas Koberda
Mark Pengitore

U. Wales, U.K.:

Ronnie Brown

U. Warwick, U.K.:

Brian Bowditch
David Epstein
Derek Holt
Daan Krammer
Iain Moffatt
Colin Rourke
Saul Schleimer
Caroline Series
Karen Vogtmann

U. Wisconsin:

Tullia Dymarz
Autumn Kent
Caglar Uyanik

U. Wisconsin - Milwaukee:

Fredric Ancel
Craig Guilbault
Chris Hruska
David Radcliffe

U. York, U.K.:

Brent Everitt

U. Zaragoza, Spain:

Conchita Martinez-Perez

U. de Lille, France:

Marc Bourdon
Leonid Potyagailo

U. de Nice, France:

Indira Chatterji
Francois Gautero

U. de Picardie, France:

Francois Digne
John Guaschi

U. di Roma, Italy:

Claudio Procesi

U. du Quebec a Montreal, Canada:

Steven Boyer

U. of the Basque Country, Spain:

Montserrat Casals-Ruiz

U.Milano-Bicocca, Italy:

Francesco Matucci

U.Sevilla, Spain:

Ramon Flores

U.Siegen, Germany:

Max Horn

Vanderbilt U.:

Spencer Dowdall
Dan Margalit
Alex Margolis
Mike Mihalik
A. Yu. Olshanskii
Denis Osin
John Ratcliffe
Ian Runnels
Sam Shepherd
Steven Tchantz

Virginia Tech.:

William Floyd

Wesleyan U.:

Emily Stark
Ed Taylor

Williams C.:

Colin Adams
Satyan Devadoss

Wroclaw U., Poland:

Swiatoslaw Gal
Jacek Swiatkowski

Yale U.:

Andrew Casson
Bruce Kleiner
Yair Minsky

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