| RefNo | EC/2024/57 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Randal-Williams, Oscar: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 21 April 2024 |
| Description | Certificate endorsing election of Oscar Randal-Williams as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Includes personal details of the elected Fellow, citation giving the reasons for election, and names of proposers. Signed by the Executive Director of the Royal Society, Julie Maxton. |
| Citation | Oscar Randal-Williams is one of the world's leading algebraic topologists. His work has revived and changed the landscape in geometric topology attracting many young mathematicians into the field. Highly prolific, technically superb, he has driven a research programme forward far beyond what was imaginable only a decade ago. Most notably he extended (with Galatius) the celebrated theorem by Madsen and Weiss on moduli spaces of surfaces to higher dimensions. This has seen deep applications to the study of spaces of positive curvature metrics and diffeomorphism groups of disks. In recent work he and collaborators developed a completely new approach to homology stability and applied it to answer questions in algebraic K-theory going back to Quillen, Suslin and others. |
| 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 and date certificate was first submitted for candidacy are kept confidential until the 50 year closure period has elapsed. |