RefNo | EC/2018/49 |
Level | Item |
Title | Wise, Daniel: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
Date | 9 May 2018 |
Description | Certificate endorsing election of Dani Wise as a Fellow of the Royal Society, including personal details of the elected Fellow and citing the reasons for election and names of proposers. Signed off by the Executive Director of the Royal Society, Julie Maxton. |
Citation | Dani Wise has revolutionized geometric group theory, pioneering the cubical approach to understanding the hidden structure of groups. Cube complexes are a highly dimensional generalization of trees that have come to occupy a central role in geometric group theory in the past 20 years. Under Wise's leadership, they have led to the resolutions of long-standing open problems in group theory, and a reconfiguration of the theory of 3-manifolds in topology. As a prime example, Wise's theory of Special Cube Complexes, together with Kahn-Markovic surface subgroup theorem, led to Agol's solution of the virtual Haken problem. In 2013 Wise was awarded the AMS Veblen prize for this work in Geometry. |
Extent | 4p |
Format | Computer printout |
PhysicalDescription | A4 papers |
AccessStatus | Closed |
AccessConditions | Election certificates are subject to 50 year closure period from date of election. Details of proposers are kept confidential until the 50 year closure period has elapsed. |