Alan Reid (mathematician)
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Alan William Reid | |
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| Born | June 14, 1962 (age 62) |
| Nationality | Scottish American |
| Alma mater | University of Aberdeen |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Rice University University of Texas, Austin |
| Thesis | Arithmetic Kleinian Groups and their Fuchsian Subgroups (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Colin Maclachlan |
Alan William Reid (born June 14, 1962) is a Scottish-American mathematician working primarily with arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds. He is the Edgar Odell Lovett Chair of mathematics at Rice University, 2017--present. [1]
Reid grew up in Buckie, Scotland [2]. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Aberdeen [3] , supervised by Colin Maclachlan [4], on the topic of Arithmetic Kleinian Groups and their Fuchsian Subgroups. He was a Royal Society University Research Fellow at Cambridge 1992-96.
Research
Alan Reid's research primarily focusses on low-dimensional topology, hyperbolic manifolds and profinite groups. He proved that the figure-eight knot is the only knot whose complement is an arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifold. [5] With Martin Bridson, Ben McReynolds and Ryan Spitler, he found the first examples of non-elementary Kleinian groups which are determined by their finite quotients among finitely generated residually finite groups. [6]
Notable publications
- "The Arithmetic of Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds". with Colin Maclachlan.
Awards and honours
- Speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicans, Rio de Janeiro.[7]
- In 2013 he became one of the (inaugural) Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[8]
- Pennzoil Company Regents Professor of Mathematics, University of Texas, Austin, 2011 -- 2016.[9]
- Sir Edmund Whittaker Prize in 1993.[10]
References
- ^ "Edgar Odell Lovett Chair of mathematics, Rice University, 2017--present".
- ^ "Alan Reid profile, AIMatters Autumn 2013 p. 15" (PDF).
- ^ "Alan Reid: Ph D thesis". discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk.
- ^ "Alan Reid - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.mathgenealogy.org.
- ^ "Arithmeticity of knot complements".
- ^ "Absolute profinite rigidity and hyperbolic geometry".
- ^ "List of 2018 ICM speakers".
- ^ List of 2013 Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2022-06-25.
- ^ "Ohio State Collloquium website".
- ^ "Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize". Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. 37 (2): 359–360. June 1994. doi:10.1017/S0013091500006131. ISSN 1464-3839.
