Dawid Kielak
NationalityPolish
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Known forpure mathematics, geometric group theory
AwardsWhitehead Prize (2022)
Frontiers of Science Award (2023)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
Doctoral advisorMartin Bridson

Dawid Kielak (Polish: [ˈdavid ˈkjɛlak]) is a Polish mathematician and Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford as well as a Tutorial Fellow of Hertford College. His research interests include geometric group theory and the theory of group rings.[1]

Life and career

He completed his undergraduate degree in St. Peter's College and his PhD degree in Magdalen College, Oxford. He subsequently continued his career in Warsaw (2012), Bonn (2012–2015), and Bielefeld (2015–2020) before returning to Oxford where he joined the university's Mathematical Institute.[2]

He is a member of the London Mathematical Society and the European Mathematical Society.[1]

He is known for formulating a mathematical theorem allowing for the recognition of spaces, which after minor modifications, behave like spacetime in Einstein's theory of relativity.[3]

In 2022, he was awarded the Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society for "his striking, original and fundamental contributions to the fields of geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology, and in particular for his work on automorphism groups of discrete groups and fibrings of manifolds and groups".[4]

In 2023, he became the co-recipient of the Frontiers of Science Award together with Marek Kaluba (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) and Piotr W. Nowak (Polish Academy of Sciences) for their research in the field of algebraic and geometric topology. The award was presented at the inaugural International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) in Beijing.[5]

Selected publications

  • The Surface Group Conjectures for groups with two generators (with Giles Gardam and Alan Logan, 2023)
  • Coboundary expansion and Gromov hyperbolicity (with Piotr Nowak)
  • Kazhdan constants for Chevalley groups over the integers (with Marek Kaluba)
  • Agrarian and ℓ2-Betti numbers of locally indicable groups, with a twist (with Bin Sun)
  • JSJ decompositions and polytopes for two-generator one-relator groups (with Giles Gardam and Alan Logan)
  • The Farrell-Jones Conjecture for normally poly-free groups (with Benjamin Brück and Xiaolei Wu, 2021)
  • The agrarian polytope of two-generator one-relator groups (with Fabian Henneke, 2020)[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Dawid Kielak". people.maths.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  2. ↑ "Dawid Kielak". hertford.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  3. ↑ "Dawid Kielak profesorem na Oksfordzie". nauka.tvp.pl (in Polish). 27 April 2023. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  4. ↑ "Dawid Kielak wins London Mathematical Society Prize". hertford.ox.ac.uk. 4 July 2022. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  5. ↑ "Frontiers of Science Awards". icbs.cn. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
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