Dawid Kielak (Polish: ) is a Polish mathematician and Professor of Pure Mathematics at the

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of the

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as well as a Tutorial Fellow of Hertford College. His research interests include geometric group theory and the theory of group rings.

Life and career

He completed his undergraduate degree in

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and his PhD degree in

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. He subsequently continued his career in

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(2012),

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(2012–2015), and Bielefeld (2015–2020) before returning to Oxford where he joined the university's Mathematical Institute. He is a member of the

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and the European Mathematical Society. He is known for formulating a mathematical theorem allowing for the recognition of spaces, which after minor modifications, behave like

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. In 2022, he was awarded the

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of the

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". In 2023, he became the co-recipient of the Frontiers of Science Award together with Marek Kaluba (

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) and Piotr W. Nowak (

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) for their research in the field of algebraic and

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. The award was presented at the inaugural International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) in

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. In September 2023 Kielak was awarded a

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of Professor of Pure Mathematics by the University of Oxford.

Selected publications

*Marek Kaluba, Dawid Kielak, and Piotr W. Nowak. ''On property (T) for ''Aut(F_n)'' and ''SL_n(Z). Annals of Mathematics 193(2), 539-562 (2021). *Dawid Kielak. ''The Bieri–Neumann–Strebel invariants via Newton polytopes.'' Invent. Math. 219, 1009–1068 (2020). *Dawid Kielak. ''Residually finite rationally solvable groups and virtual fibring.'' J. Amer. Math. Soc. 33, 451-486 (2020). *Barbara Baumeister, Dawid Kielak, and Emilio Pierro. ''On the smallest non-abelian quotient of ''Aut(F_n). Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society 118(6), 1547-1591 (2019).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kielak, Dawid Living people Polish academics 20th-century Polish mathematicians Whitehead Prize winners Alumni of St Peter's College, Oxford Fellows of Hertford College, Oxford Year of birth missing (living people)

Life and career

Selected publications

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