William Paul Thurston was an American mathematician. He was a pioneer in the field of low-dimensional topology and was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982 for his contributions to the study of 3-manifolds.
Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman FRS,was a British mathematician,known for his work in geometric topology and singularity theory.
Sir Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones was a New Zealand mathematician known for his work on von Neumann algebras and knot polynomials. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1990.
Ciprian Manolescu is a Romanian-American mathematician,working in gauge theory,symplectic geometry,and low-dimensional topology. He is currently a professor of mathematics at Stanford University.
Joachim Hyam Rubinstein FAA is an Australian top mathematician specialising in low-dimensional topology;he is currently serving as an honorary professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne,having retired in 2019.
David Gabai is an American mathematician and the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University. Focused on low-dimensional topology and hyperbolic geometry,he is a leading researcher in those subjects.
Daniel Frank Walls FRS was a New Zealand theoretical physicist specialising in quantum optics.
In mathematics,a microbundle is a generalization of the concept of vector bundle,introduced by the American mathematician John Milnor in 1964. It allows the creation of bundle-like objects in situations where they would not ordinarily be thought to exist. For example,the tangent bundle is defined for a smooth manifold but not a topological manifold;use of microbundles allows the definition of a topological tangent bundle.
Ian Agol is an American mathematician who deals primarily with the topology of three-dimensional manifolds.
Marston Donald Edward Conder is a New Zealand mathematician,a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Auckland University,and the former co-director of the New Zealand Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. His main research interests are in combinatorial group theory,graph theory,and their connections with each other.
Roderick Leon Bieleski was a New Zealand plant physiologist. As a botanist and horticulturist,his research focussed on understanding the factors that affected the behaviour of plants,in particular horticultural crops. His work had practical relevance to farmers and orchardists in building their understanding of these factors and taking account of them while making a living from growing and harvesting plants. He received many honours and awards,culminating in being appointed Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) in 2010.
Gaven John MartinFRSNZFASLFAMS is a New Zealand mathematician. He is a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Massey University,the head of the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study,the former president of the New Zealand Mathematical Society,and former editor-in-chief of the New Zealand Journal of Mathematics. He is a former Vice-President of the Royal Society of New Zealand [Mathematical,Physical Sciences Engineering and Technology. His research concerns quasiconformal mappings,regularity theory for partial differential equations,and connections between the theory of discrete groups and low-dimensional topology.
The New Zealand Mathematical Society is a New Zealand based learned society of mathematicians. It is listed by the Royal Society of New Zealand as the affiliate organisation responsible for mathematics research,and by the International Mathematical Union as the national mathematical society of New Zealand. The total membership in the society has varied from approximately 100 soon after its 1974 foundation to between 200 and 300 at its 25th anniversary in 1999.
Hinke Maria Osinga is a Dutch mathematician and an expert in dynamical systems. She works as a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. As well as for her research,she is known as a creator of mathematical art.
Ashwin Rod Gover is a New Zealand mathematician and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He is currently employed as a Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He is the PhD students' Adviser for the Department of Mathematics and is the head of the Analysis,Geometry and Topology Research Group at the University of Auckland.
Wilfred Gordon Malcolm was a New Zealand mathematician and university administrator. He was professor of pure mathematics at Victoria University of Wellington from the mid 1970s,until serving as vice-chancellor of the University of Waikato between 1985 and 1994.
The Joan &Joseph Birman Research Prize in Topology and Geometry is a prize given every other year by the Association for Women in Mathematics to an outstanding young female researcher in topology or geometry. The prize fund for the award was endowed by a donation in 2013 from Joan Birman and her husband,Joseph Birman,and first awarded in 2015.
Kathryn Mann is a mathematician who has won the Rudin Award,Birman Prize,Duszenko Award,and Sloan Fellowship for her research in geometric topology and geometric group theory. She is an associate professor of mathematics at Cornell University.
Shaun Cameron Hendy is a New Zealand physicist. He is the chief scientist at climate innovation company Toha. He was previously a professor at the University of Auckland and was the first director of Te Pūnaha Matatini,a centre of research excellence in complex systems and data analytics. During the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand,he led a team of scientists developing mathematical models of the spread of the virus across the country that influenced the government's response to the outbreak.
Sina Ruth Greenwood is a New Zealand mathematician whose interests include continuum theory,discrete dynamical systems,inverse limits,set-valued analysis,and Volterra spaces. She is an associate professor of mathematics and Associate Dean Pacific in the faculty of science at the University of Auckland.
