Professor James W Anderson

Professor of Pure Mathematics

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Professor James W Anderson is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Southampton.

He is known for his work on spaces of deformations of Kleinian groups, which are discrete groups of isometries of hyperbolic spaces, and on mapping class groups of hyperbolic surfaces. He is also the author of a popular undergraduate textbook on Hyperbolic Geometry.

Qualifications

BA (Mathematics), University of Georgia, USA

PhD (Mathematics), SUNY Stony Brook, USA

Postdoctoral Fellow, MSRI, USA

NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Warwick, UK

G C Evans Instructor, Rice University, USA

Professor of Mathematics

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Research interests

Hyperbolic geometry and Kleinian groups
Riemann surfaces
The geometry and topology of 3-manifolds
Mapping class groups of surfaces

Research group

Pure Mathematics

Research project(s)

Finite subgroups of mapping class groups of closed surfaces

Schottky groups and uniformizations of closed surfaces

Associate Dean (Education and Student Experience) for the Faculty of Social Sciences
Member of the Education Committee, London Mathematical Society
Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy

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Articles

Book

Anderson, J. W. (2005). Hyperbolic geometry, second revised edition. (Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series). London, UK: Springer Verlag London Ltd.

Book Chapter

Anderson, J. W. (1998). A brief survey of the deformation theory of Kleinian groups. In I. Rivin, C. Rourke, & C. Series (Eds.), The Epstein Birthday Schrift (pp. 23-49). (Geometry & Topology Monographs; Vol. 1). Coventry, UK: Geometry & Topology Publications. DOI: 10.2140/gtm.1998.1.23

Conference

Anderson, J. W., & Paternain, G. P. (2003). The minimal entropy problem for 3-manifolds with zero simplicial volume. In W. de Melo, M. Viana, & J-C. Yoccoz (Eds.), Asterisque (pp. 63-79). Paris, France: The French Mathematical Society.

MATH3033 Graph Theory

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