The department’s research includes a wide variety of topics in geometry ranging from pure aspects in algebraic, differential and combinatorial geometry to applications of geometric methods in visualisation, mathematical general relativity, dynamics and approximation theory.

Current members

Current research topics

• Algebraic geometry, especially geometry and arithmetic of moduli spaces and algebraic stacks (F. Neumann)
• Geometry of differentiable stacks and etale groupoids (F. Neumann)
• Tilings & aperiodic patterns (A. Clark, J. Hunton)
• Foliation theory (A. Clark, O.Lukina)
• Symplectic geometry and integrable systems (K. Leschke, O. Lukina)
• Surface theory (K. Leschke)
• Visualisation (K. Leschke)
• General relativity (C. Luebbe)
• Homological methods in geometry and physics (A. Lazarev)
• Geometry in approximation theory (J. Levesley)

PhD Students

Dina Abuzaid, Chris Braun, Sheil McCann, Andrew Peden, Jamie Walton

Research students: Dina Abuzaid, Chris Braun, David Fletcher, Sheil McCann, Andrew Peden, Jamie Walton

Research associates: James Cranch, Marcello Felisatti, Olga Lukina, Daniele Sepe

Grants

• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
• Nuffield Foundation
• London Mathematical Society (LMS)
  
• The Royal Society
• CSIC
• IN- DAM
• TIFR
• IMPA
• EU Marie Curie Programme
• The Leverhulme Trust
• The British Council
• DFG