Richard Thomas (mathematician)
| Richard Thomas | |
|---|---|
| Institutions | Imperial College London |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Gauge Theory on Calabi-Yau Manifolds[1] (1997) |
| Doctoral advisor | Simon Donaldson |
| Notable awards | Whitehead Prize[2] (2004) |
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Website http://www2.imperial.ac.uk/~rpwt/ | |
Richard Paul Thomas is a pure mathematician working in several areas of geometry. He is a professor at Imperial College London.
Thomas obtained his PhD on gauge theory on Calabi–Yau manifolds in 1997 under the supervision of Simon Donaldson at the University of Oxford.
In 2004, he was awarded the LMS Whitehead Prize and the Philip Leverhulme Prize, in 2010 the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. Thomas' thesis introduced, as a holomorphic analogue of Casson's 3-manifold invariant, Donaldson–Thomas invariants which have appeared in the field of enumerative algebraic geometry.
External links
- ↑ Richard Thomas at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "Department of Mathematics Prizes and Awards". Imperial College London. Retrieved 22 January 2013.